Technology Adoption and Technical Efficiency: Organic and Conventional Dairy Farms in the United StatesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics - Tập 92 Số 1 - Trang 181-195 - 2010
Carlos D. Mayen, Joseph Valdes Balagtas, Corinne E. Alexander
AbstractWe compare productivity and technical efficiency of organic and
conventional dairy farms in the United States. We address self‐selection into
organic farming by using propensity score matching and explicitly test the
hypothesis that organic and conventional farms employ a single, homogeneous
technology. Utilizing the 2005 Agricultural Resource Management Survey on Dairy
Costs and Returns R... hiện toàn bộ
Scale Economies and Inefficiency of U.S. Dairy FarmsAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics - Tập 91 Số 3 - Trang 777-794 - 2009
Roberto Mosheim, C. A. Knox Lovell
AbstractThis study employs data drawn from the 2000 Agricultural Resource
Management Survey, a U.S. Department of Agriculture‐sponsored farmers’ survey.
The article estimates returns to scale relationships across dairy farms of
different sizes and across different regions, incorporating variables
hypothesized to influence farm performance. Results point to significant scale
economies in U.S. dairy... hiện toàn bộ
Do New York Dairy Farmers Maximize Profits or Minimize Costs?American Journal of Agricultural Economics - Tập 77 Số 2 - Trang 421-429 - 1995
Loren W. Tauer
AbstractThe Weak Axiom of Profit Maximization and Weak Axiom of Cost
Minimization were used to determine whether each of forty‐nine New York dairy
farms displayed behavior consistent with profit maximization or cost
minimization. These were tested for each farm across eleven years of data,
correcting for technological change using previously estimated nonparametric
Malmquist productivity indices. ... hiện toàn bộ
The Structure of U.S. Agricultural Technology, 1910–78American Journal of Agricultural Economics - Tập 66 Số 4 - Trang 414-421 - 1984
John M. Antle
AbstractThis paper utilizes 1910–78 time‐series data and a single product
aggregate translog profit function to measure the structure of U.S. agricultural
technology. Duality relations are used to devise a multifactor measure of biased
technical change. A measure of nonhomotheticity is introduced which indicates
the effects scale change has had on aggregate cost shares. The empirical
analysis find... hiện toàn bộ
On Testing the Structure of Risk Preferences in Agricultural Supply AnalysisAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics - Tập 73 Số 3 - Trang 743-748 - 1991
Rulon D. Pope, Richard E. Just
AbstractRisk preferences broadly affect many economic decisions when markets are
incomplete. Common representations of risk preferences are constant absolute,
relative, and partial relative risk aversion. Each of these preference classes
has distinct impacts on choice. An econometric test for distinguishing the class
of preferences is proposed and implemented for potato supply response in Idaho.
T... hiện toàn bộ
Adverse Selection in Crop Insurance: Actuarial and Asymmetric Information IncentivesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics - Tập 81 Số 4 - Trang 834-849 - 1999
Richard E. Just, Linda Calvin, John Quiggin
AbstractAdverse selection is often blamed for crop insurance indemnities
exceeding premiums plus subsidies. However, nationwide empirical evidence has
been lacking or based on inadequate county‐level data. This article uses
nationwide farm‐level data on corn and soybeans to decompose incentives for
participation in U.S. multiple peril crop insurance into a risk‐aversion
incentive (the conventional... hiện toàn bộ
A Nonparametric Investigation of Agricultural Production Behavior for U.S. SubregionsAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics - Tập 70 Số 2 - Trang 311-317 - 1988
Chris Fawson, C. Richard Shumway
AbstractThis research provides an empirical application of nonparametric
techniques to determine whether agricultural production behavior in the United
States and ten farm production regions over the period 1939 to 1982 has been
inconsistent with the joint hypothesis of profit maximization, convex
technology, and monotonic nonregressive technical change.
A Nonparametric Analysis of Agricultural TechnologyAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics - Tập 70 Số 2 - Trang 303-310 - 1988
Jean‐Paul Chavas, Thomas L. Cox
AbstractU.S. agricultural technology and technical change are analyzed
nonparametrically under cost minimization and profit maximization. Based on
annual data for 1948–83, various separability hypotheses concerning the
aggregate production function for U.S. agriculture are investigated. The
proposed nonparametric approach also provides some insights into the nature of
technical change.
Risk Analysis with Single‐Index Portfolio Models: An Application to Farm PlanningAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics - Tập 68 Số 1 - Trang 152-161 - 1986
Robert A. Collins, Peter J. Barry
AbstractSharpe's 1963 single‐index portfolio model, the separation theorem, and
a solution method suggested by Elton, Gruber, and Padberg are adapted in this
paper to the farm diversification problem. The objectives are to develop risk
measures, based on single‐index parameters and computationally simple methods
for farm risk planning, that are suitable for microcomputers and modern
hand‐held calc... hiện toàn bộ