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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Heterogeneous Production Efficiency of Specialized Swine Producers
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| Autores: |
Tonsor, Glynn T.
Featherstone, Allen M.
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| Data: |
2006-01-03
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| Ano: |
2006
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| Palavras-chave: |
Efficiency
Heteroskedastic Tobit
Firm specialization
Future anticipation
Producer heterogeneity
Production technology
Returns to scale
Swine
Livestock Production/Industries
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| Resumo: |
This research evaluates the efficiency of swine firms differing by specialization type and employed technologies. Measures of technical, allocative, scale, economic, and overall efficiency are separately and jointly estimated for farrow-to-finish, farrow-to-feeder, feeder-to-finish, farrow-to-weanling, weanling-to-feeder, and mixed operations. Findings confirm appreciable differences in efficiency and causes of efficiency. Results suggest that overall efficiency of farrow-to-finish and farrow-to-weanling operations is on average lower than farrow-to-feeder, feeder-to-finish, and weanling-to-feeder operations. In addition, Tobit models examining how demographic factors, farm type, and input expenses influence efficiency indicate additional variation across firm specializations. This information can help aid in making more appropriate decisions such as producers altering their input mixes or researchers evaluating the existence and implications of firm heterogeneity in an industry.
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| Tipo: |
Conference Paper or Presentation
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
19427
http://purl.umn.edu/35379
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| Editor: |
AgEcon Search
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| Relação: |
Southern Agricultural Economics Association>2006 Annual Meeting, February 5-8, 2006, Orlando, Florida
Selected Paper
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| Formato: |
25
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