@article{Johansson:9845,
      recid = {9845},
      author = {Johansson, Helena and Ohlmer, Bo},
      title = {What is the Effect of Operational Managerial Practices on  Dairy Farm Efficiency? Some Results from Sweden},
      address = {2007},
      number = {381-2016-22230},
      series = {Selected Paper 173425},
      pages = {29},
      year = {2007},
      abstract = {The article aims to investigate how operational managerial  practices can contribute to improved farm level efficiency  at dairy farms. Operational managerial practices are  defined as animal health, breeding, and feeding practices.  The main contribution of the article is that it  investigates aspects that can be adjusted every day to  improve farm efficiency. Aspects describing each of the  considered managerial practices are regressed on farm level  data envelopment efficiency scores based on farm level data  from Sweden. The results show that changes in breeding and  feeding practices can lead to improved efficiency. Breeding  exactly the number of heifers that is needed for  replacement of the dairy cows negatively affects long-run  technical efficiency. On the other hand, analyzing forage  positively affects long-run allocative efficiency and  analyzing fodder grain positively affects short-run  economic efficiency. Feeding the cows hay instead of only  silage, reduces long-run economic efficiency. No  significant effects of animal health practices were found.  These results suggest that the farms in the sample are  homogeneous in terms of animal health practices and that  inefficient farms cannot become more efficient by adapting  to the animal health practices of more efficient farms.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/9845},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.9845},
}