A Frontier Analysis of U.S. Poultry Farms: Developing Performance Measures

Richard Nehring, Ani Katchova, Jeffrey Gillespie, Charlie Hallahan, Michael Harris and Ken Erickson

No 162434, 2014 Annual Meeting, February 1-4, 2014, Dallas, Texas from Southern Agricultural Economics Association

Abstract: Using USDA’s ARMS data for 2006 and 2011, we determine the extent and location of U.S. high and low-technology broiler farms and estimate net returns, scale efficiency, and technical efficiency associated with technology across different operation sizes. Larger-scale high-technology farms generally economically outperformed smaller-scale low-technology farms.

Keywords: Labor and Human Capital; Livestock Production/Industries; Production Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27
Date: 2014-01-15
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.162434

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