Title: Productivity and Efficiency of U.S. Field Crop Farms: A Look at Farm Size and Operator’s Gender
Abstract: This study adopts a stochastic input-oriented distance function to measure technical efficiencies as well as inefficiency determinants, with a closer look at the operator’s gender and farm size, for U.S. field crop family farms. The study draws data from USDA’s 2013 Agricultural Resource Management Survey. The results show operator’s farm size, in terms of total value of production and in terms of operated land acreage, significantly impacts farm’s technical efficiency and thus productivity performance, while operator’s gender does not. In addition, the study finds that operator’s education enhances farm’s technical efficiency while a higher diversified production portfolio between crops and livestock production does not statistically impact farm’s technical efficiency.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-05-01
Language: en
Type: preprint
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