Scale Economies and Efficiency in U.S. Agriculture: Are Traditional Farms History?

By Catherine J. M. Paul, Richard Nehring, D. Banker, Agapi L. Somwaru. 2004

192 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Management Science and Operations Research

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Citations in the corpus

• Economic Factors Affecting Diversified Farming Systems (2013, background): “Key Words: agriculture; diversified farming systems; economics”
• Farm size and productivity growth in the United States Corn Belt (2019, methodology): “This cohort approach can use repeated cross-section or panel data to estimate changes in productivity by farm size groups (Morrison Paul et al., 2004).”
• Using data envelopment analysis for the assessment of technical efficiency of units with different specialisations: An application to agriculture ☆ (2015, unknown): “…of DEA and other efficiency and productivity assessment methods often aggregate different farm outputs using their unit prices, into a value (revenue) output (Färe et al. 1985; Oude Lansink et al., 2002; Paul et al., 2004; Davidova and Latruffe, 2007; Speelman et al. 2008; Skevas et al., 2012).”