@article{Miller:307907,
      recid = {307907},
      author = {Miller, Thomas A.  and Rodewald, Gordon E.  and McElroy,  Robert G.},
      title = {Economies of Size in U.S. Field Crop Farming   },
      address = {1981-07},
      number = {1473-2020-1441},
      series = {Agricultural Economic Report No. 472},
      pages = {42},
      year = {1981},
      abstract = {Economies of size refers to the relative cost efficiency  associated with different firm sizes.  As farm size  increases in most field crop regions, per-unit costs  decline at first and then are relatively constant.   Medium-size commercial farms ($41,000 to $76,000 gross  income) achieve most available technical cost efficiencies.   Society would likely benefit little in terms of lower real  food costs from further increase in the size of these  farms.  Apparently economies of size are not a major   factor in farm enlargement; farmers expand their farms to  increase income rather than to reduce per-unit costs.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/307907},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.307907},
}