Productivity growth of dairy farms having conventional vs. automatic milking system

Anna-Maija Heikkilä and Sami Myyrä

No 182648, 2014 International Congress, August 26-29, 2014, Ljubljana, Slovenia from European Association of Agricultural Economists

Abstract: The aim of this study was to determine whether the switch from conventional milking systems (CMS) to automatic milking systems (AMS) has positive effects on the productivity growth. Production function analysis was implemented over a rotating panel data of 323 Finnish dairy farms during the period of 2000–2011. The total factor productivity growth was 1.7% per year on farms that stayed in CMS and 3.1% per year on farms that had switched to AMS. The improvement was linked to overall reforms in production technology and an expansion in herd size but the adoption of AMS intensified the positive development.

Keywords: Productivity; Analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 11
Date: 2014-08
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.182648

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