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Non-Parametric Measures of Technical Efficiency in Milk Production

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Boris E. Bravo-Ureta
Boris E. Bravo-Ureta*
Affiliation:
Agricultural Economics at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06268
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Abstract

This paper presents estimates of technical efficiency in milk production based on Farrell's non-parametric frontier production function methodology. Data from a sample of Maine and Vermont dairy farms, included in the ELFAC business analysis for 1979, were used to derive Efficient Unit Isoquants for capital-labor and concentrate feed-roughage combinations. The analysis indicates that milk production in Maine and Vermont farms was characterized by significant technical inefficiencies during 1979.

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Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , Fall 1983 , pp. 69 - 76
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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Footnotes

The author gratefully acknowledges review comments of T. C. Lee and Stan Seaver, and the assistance of Hugo Fueglein.

Scientific Contribution No. 1028, Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station, The University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06268.

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