Does Farm Size and Specialization Matter for Productive Efficiency? Results from Kansas

Amin Mugera () and Michael Langemeier

Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 2011, vol. 43, issue 4, 14

Abstract: In this article, we used bootstrap data envelopment analysis techniques to examine technical and scale efficiency scores for a balanced panel of 564 farms in Kansas for the period 1993–2007. The production technology is estimated under three different assumptions of returns to scale and the results are compared. Technical and scale efficiency is disaggregated by farm size and specialization. Our results suggest that farms are both scale and technically inefficient. On average, technical efficiency has deteriorated over the sample period. Technical efficiency varies directly by farm size and the differences are significant. Differences across farm specializations are not significant.

Keywords: Farm Management; Production Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.117947

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