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Provedor de dados:  AgEcon
País:  United States
Título:  Cost Efficiency and Scope Economies of Crop and Livestock Farms in Missouri
Autores:  Wu, Shunxiang
Prato, Anthony A.
Data:  2008-10-03
Ano:  2006
Palavras-chave:  Cost efficiency
Crop
Livestock
Missouri farms
Scope economies
Agricultural and Food Policy
Crop Production/Industries
Industrial Organization
Livestock Production/Industries
Production Economics
Q12
R32
Resumo:  This study investigates productive efficiency for a sample of Missouri crop-only (specialized) and integrated crop-livestock (diversified) farms using a cost frontier approach. Results suggest that significant cost inefficiency exists among sample farms. Lower cost efficiency in both types of farms was attributed to improper scale of operations and mis-allocation of inputs. On average, diversified farms were as technically and scale efficient as specialized farms. Lower allocative efficiency diluted gains in technical efficiency and resulted in greater cost inefficiency for diversified farms than for specialized farms. Technical efficiency was independent of farm size, whereas allocative, scale, and scope efficiencies were not.
Tipo:  Journal Article
Idioma:  Inglês
Identificador:  http://purl.umn.edu/43906
Relação:  Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics>Volume 38, Number 03, December 2006
JAAE
Formato:  15
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