The Economics and Productivity of Organic versus Non-organic U.S. Dairy Farms

Richard Nehring, Jeffrey Gillespie, Charles Hallahan and Johannes Sauer

No 196805, 2015 Annual Meeting, January 31-February 3, 2015, Atlanta, Georgia from Southern Agricultural Economics Association

Abstract: We estimate a production function for U.S. dairy farming to examine the productivity of organic and non-organic dairy production by system and size. Across organic/non-organic systems and size classes, size is the major determinant of competitiveness based on various measures of productivity and returns to scale.

Keywords: Farm Management; Livestock Production/Industries; Production Economics; Productivity Analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16
Date: 2015-01-15
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.196805

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