Non-Parametric Measures of Technical Efficiency in Milk Production

Boris Bravo-Ureta

Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council, 1983, vol. 12, issue 2, 8

Abstract: This paper presents estimates of technical efficiency in milk production based on Farrell's non-parametric frontier production function methodology. Data from a sample of Maine and Vermont dairy farms, included in the ELFAC business analysis for 1979, were used to derive Efficient Unit Isoquants for capital-labor and concentrate feed-roughage combinations. The analysis indicates that milk production in Maine and Vermont farms was characterized b{ significant technical inefficiencies during 1979.

Keywords: Livestock Production/Industries; Production Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1983
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.159555

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