Grass-Fed Beef Enterprise Efficiency Analysis in the U.S

Berdikul Qushim, Basu Bhandari, Jeffrey Gillespie and Guillermo Scaglia

No 252735, 2017 Annual Meeting, February 4-7, 2017, Mobile, Alabama from Southern Agricultural Economics Association

Abstract: We determine technical and scale efficiencies, scope economies, marginal productive contributions for inputs and outputs, and efficiency drivers for U.S. grass-fed beef enterprises. Average technical efficiency was 0.82. Increasing returns to scale and scope economies were found. Results suggest grass-fed beef enterprises can be scale efficient at >100 grass-fed beef animals.

Keywords: Livestock Production/Industries; Production Economics; Productivity Analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.252735

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