Do Efficient Dairy Producers Purchase Quota?

Rebecca Elskamp and Getu Hailu

No 149678, 2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C. from Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

Abstract: We examine the effect of farm level cost and scale efficiencies on dairy quota exchanges in Ontario. A constrained profit maximization framework is used to illustrate the role of cost efficiency in quota exchanges (i.e., sales and purchases). Using a multinomial logit model, where net quota buyers and net quota sellers are identified our empirical results indicate that variations in cost efficiency do not have a significant effect on purchases milk production quota, whereas scale efficiency does. Younger farmers, farms with underutilized barns space and farms with a recent history of quota purchase tend to buy milk production quota.

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Production Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 18
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.149678

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