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Abstract
Technical and scale efficiencies are
estimated for organic and non-organic dairy farms in the
United States using an input distance function approach. A
multinomial logit analysis is used to categorize the farms by
technology. Large conventional farms outperformed smaller
farms in most technology / organic / non-organic categories.
There was high variability in net returns among the organics
so that they did not differ significantly from the large
conventional farms. The largest conventional non-organic
operations and conventional organic operations tended to have
the higher technical efficiencies.