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Provedor de dados: 	31	
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&gt;Volume 38, Number 03, December 2006

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Formato: 	15