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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Animal Efficiency in an Intensive Beef Production System
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| Autores: |
Fleming, Euan M.
Fleming, Pauline
Rodgers, Heidi
Griffith, Garry R.
Johnston, David
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| Data: |
2005-10-05
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| Ano: |
2005
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| Palavras-chave: |
Efficiency
Intensive agriculture
Scope economies
Livestock Production/Industries
Q12
C51
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| Resumo: |
A stochastic input distance function is estimated to analyse the efficiency with which physical characteristics of individual lot-fed beef cattle in Australia are combined with conventional inputs to produce a final product possessing defined quality attributes. High mean technical efficiency estimates are reported for all animals and by breed. All partial output elasticities with respect to inputs are of expected sign. Of four outputs included in the analysis, carcass weight and moisture retention in meat after cooking have highly significant coefficients of expected sign, but two meat quality variables have coefficients of unexpected sign indicating that they decline as inputs increase. Some evidence is detected of scope economies between moisture retention in meat and the inverse of meat compression.
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| Tipo: |
Conference Paper or Presentation
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
17990
http://purl.umn.edu/24673
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| Editor: |
AgEcon Search
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| Relação: |
European Association of Agricultural Economists>2005 International Congress, August 23-27, 2005, Copenhagen, Denmark
Poster Paper
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| Formato: |
15
application/pdf
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