Efficiency Analysis of Southeastern U.S. Meat Goat Production

Berdikul Qushim, Jeffrey Gillespie and Kenneth McMillin

No 196818, 2015 Annual Meeting, January 31-February 3, 2015, Atlanta, Georgia from Southern Agricultural Economics Association

Abstract: Technical efficiency, scale and scope economies, marginal productive contributions for inputs and outputs, and efficiency drivers were determined for the Southeastern U.S meat goat enterprise. The average technical efficiency was 0.88. We find increasing returns to scale and scope economies for Southeastern U.S. meat goat enterprises.

Keywords: Farm Management; Production Economics; Productivity Analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.196818

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