The relationship between technical efficiency and size might be affected by farm
heterogeneity. We analyse this relationship conditional on a set of control variables. These …

The US dairy sector is facing structural changes including a geographical shift in dairy
production and a tendency toward the implementation of more intensive production systems …

In recent decades, the dairy sector has shown a global tendency toward intensification. This
structural change may have significant effects on farm efficiency and, consequently, on the …

The milk market in the European Union (EU) is adjusting rapidly to the removal of dairy
quotas. The most important changes include increased milk yield per cow, increased total …

The US dairy industry has seen major restructuring in recent decades. A sharp decline in the
number of US dairy farms and an increase in average herd sizes have accompanied exits …

The objective of this research was to calculate the efficiency of a group of Pennsylvania
dairy farms to determine factors that contributed to efficiency in production and business …

Substantial attention has focused on the dairy industry because of a concern that many
producers are getting out of dairying. Although low milk prices are postulated as a primary …

Smaller dairy farms in the US are observed to have higher costs than larger farms, and
whether those higher costs are due to technology or inefficiency has implications for policy …

This study aimed to evaluate the determinant profitability indexes of typical dairy farms
located in Brazil. The empirical sample included detailed technical and financial information …

We consider the relative contributions of changing technology and institutions for economic
growth through the investigation of a natural experiment in history: the almost simultaneous …