Cross Country Analysis of Farm Economic Performance

Abstract

The OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Papers series is designed to make available to a wide readership selected studies by OECD staff or by outside consultants. This series continues that originally entitled OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Working Papers. This document and any map included herein are without prejudice to the status of or sovereignty over any territory, to the delimitation of international frontiers and boundaries and to the name of any territory, city or area.

Dynamics of dairy farm productivity growth

“…Lower productive farms obtain on average higher off-farm income to offset the lower productivity of the farming enterprise. These are consistent with previous findings in the OECD report on farm performance (Kimura and Le Thi, 2013). Similarly, Lien et al (2010) also find a significant negative effect of farm output on farmers' off-farm work hours based on an unbalanced panel of Norwegian grain farms during 1991 to 2005.…”

“…Work on Cross Country Analysis of Farm Performance (Kimura and Le Thi, 2013) carried out under the 2011-12 PWB finds significant differences in farm performance, as measured by cash income indicators, across farms and identifies the characteristics of high performing farms. This report is a result of continued efforts to measure the performance of agricultural innovation systems through the OECD Network for Farm-level Analysis.…”

The Role of Innovation in Farm Economic Sustainability: Generalised Propensity Score Evidence from Irish Dairy Farms

“…For example, national expenditure on agricultural R&D, a commonly used indicator for innovation efforts, is generally seen as driving TFP growth and competitiveness in agriculture (Alston, 2010;Alston et al, 2010;Fuglie, 2012). Kimura and Le Thi (2013) take a different approach and use farm performance as indicators of innovation. They conduct a cross country comparison and identify typical characteristics of high and low performing farms.…”

Impacts of agricultural policies on productivity and sustainability performance in agriculture: A literature review

“…14 Within the set of reviewed studies, only Mary (2013 [47]) and Kazukauskas, Newman and Sauer (2014 [198]) provide results on productivity impacts by farm type. See Annex D.…”