@article{Njuki:323860,
      recid = {323860},
      author = {Njuki, Eric},
      title = {Sources, Trends, and Drivers of U.S. Dairy Productivity  and Efficiency},
      address = {2022-02-17},
      number = {1962-2022-1415},
      series = {ERR-305},
      pages = {52},
      month = {Feb},
      year = {2022},
      abstract = {The U.S. dairy sector has undergone substantial structural  change characterized by a shift to larger and fewer dairy  operations, concentrated in relatively few States. This  report measures and analyzes the dairy sector’s  productivity growth and efficiency and identifies proximate  drivers and sources of this growth in the face of the  structural change observed from 2000 to 2020. Results  indicate that productivity growth in the dairy sector was  widespread, albeit with considerable variations by  herd-size class, region, and production type. Western and  Southwestern States—Idaho, New Mexico, Arizona, and  California—experienced the fastest productivity growth with  annual rates between 3.52 and 4.40 percent. Meanwhile,  Southern States—Kentucky, Georgia, Missouri, and  Tennessee—were the slowest growing with annual rates  ranging between 0.89 and 1.74 percent. Furthermore,  productivity across the largest herd-size class with more  than 1,000 milk cows grew at an annual rate of 2.99 percent  while the smallest herd-size class with fewer than 100 milk  cows grew at an annual rate of 0.63 percent. Finally,  organic dairy operations grew at a much slower pace of 0.66  percent compared with their conventional counterparts that  grew at an annual rate of 2.51 percent.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/323860},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.323860},
}