Effciency and productivity of conventional and organic farms in Finland 1994-1997

Lansink, A.G.J.M. Oude; Pietola, Kyösti; Bäckman, Stefan

doi:10.1093/erae/29.1.51

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“…The fact that most farms produce only a subset of all available crops is not considered as evidence pointing to different technologies: it is assumed that the farms choose to cultivate only a subset of crops. This assumption is in line with many other studies based on FADN data where it is assumed that crop-producing farms (including wheat-producing farms) in the same region operate in the same production technology (see, e.g., Oude Lansink et al 2002 andSkevas et al 2012).…”

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“…Agricultural applications 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; While addressing the criticisms with the above two approaches (clustering and the use of only the main common outputs), the aggregation using prices is not without problems itself.…”

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“…In different studies the definition of the capital input has been based, with some variations, on the book value of machinery and buildings (Brümmer, 2001;Oude Lansink et al, 2002;Iráizoz et al, 2003;Skevas et al, 2012), depreciated value of total assets (Latruffe et al, 2004;Davidova and Latruffe, 2007;Luik et al, 2009), and the annual capital costs (Färe et al, 1997). Based on the available data, we define the capital input in our model as capital expenditures expressed in Turkish Lira.…”

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Using data envelopment analysis for the assessment of technical efficiency of units with different specialisations: An application to agriculture

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Citation: ATICI, K.B. and PODINOVSKI, V.V., 2015. Using data envelopment analysis for the assessment of technical efficiency of units with different specialisations: an application to agriculture. Omega, 54, Additional Information:• This paper was accepted for publication in the journal AbstractIn this paper we consider the use of data envelopment analysis (DEA) for the assessment of efficiency of units whose output profiles exhibit specialisation. An example of this is found in agriculture where a large number of different crops may be produced in a particular region, but only a few farms actually produce each particular crop. Because of the large number of outputs, the use of conventional DEA models in such applications results in a poor efficiency discrimination. We overcome this problem by specifying production trade-offs between different outputs, relying on the methodology of Podinovski (2004). The main idea of our approach is to relate various outputs to the production of the main output. We illustrate this methodology by an application of DEA involving agricultural farms in different regions ofTurkey. An integral part of this application is the elicitation of expert judgements in order to formulate the required production trade-offs. Their use in DEA models results in a significant improvement of the efficiency discrimination. The proposed methodology should also be of interest to other applications of DEA where units may exhibit specialization, such as applications involving hospitals or bank branches.

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“…Furthermore, the FADN sample changes every year, with some farms entering the sample and others leaving. On the other hand, this is a common problem when FADN data are used, and despite this, a wide collection of literature has been produced on frontier analysis using this sort of data, explicitly or implicitly assuming that the evolution of the FADN sample is aligned with the evolution of a certain sector in each country (Madau 2011(Madau , 2015Oude Lansink et al 2002).…”

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Technical efficiency and total factor productivity changes in European dairy farm sectors

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This paper aims to evaluate the technical efficiency and the total factor productivity change of dairy farms in EU countries. Analyses were carried out in order to determine which countries showed the best performance adaptations when the quota regime was relaxed and to evaluate the technical conditions of European farmers at the starting point of the new regime (milk quota abolition). A data envelopment analysis (DEA) was applied on aggregate data related to 22 European countries for the period from 2004 to 2012. The findings suggest that milk farms show small scope for improving efficiency using their own technical input. The estimation of total factor productivity and its components suggest that the European milk sector has suffered a decline in productivity. This means that external factors, independent of the farmers' capacity to use technical inputs, can play a greater role than efficiency in conditioning productivity and profitability in the near future.

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“…Total outputs were aggregated into a single measure, total farm business revenue, which is a common practice in efficiency studies (Oude Lansink et al, 2002;Irá izoz et al, 2003). The measure of total farm business revenue included allowances and revenue from non-traditional farming, as the recorded inputs were also used to create these revenues.…”

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Which preventive measures against mastitis can increase the technical efficiency of dairy farms?

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2011

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The aim of this paper was to explore if, and in that case how, various preventive measures against mastitis influenced the whole-farm economic outcome, measured as technical efficiency, of a sample of specialised dairy farms in Sweden. In particular, the paper aimed at analysing whether a change to preventive measures applied by fully efficient farms would be a way for inefficient farms to become fully efficient. First, technical efficiency was assessed for each farm in the sample based on farm-level accounting data and the data envelopment analysis. In a second step, the effects of preventive measures against mastitis (collected through a mail questionnaire) on technical efficiency were assessed with logistic regression. Keeping cows in a loose-housing barn, stimulating udders manually during milking, and having cows standing on clean bedding during milking were found to significantly increase the probability of a farm being fully efficient. Once the farmer considers the somatic cell count (SCC) to be too high, undertaking measures such as contacting a veterinarian, checking overall hygiene routines, and culling cows with high SCC were found to significantly increase the probability of a farm being fully efficient. Thus, these measures may be plausible targets for advisory services aimed at assisting farmers to become fully efficient, especially if they are confirmed in future studies. Several common preventive measures against mastitis, that is, choice of bedding material, frequency of cleaning stalls, pre-milking, post-milking teat disinfection, applying a milking order based on the SCC of cows, and milking high-SCC cows with a separate cluster, were found to have no statistically significant effect on farm economic outcome. However, these measures may still be valuable for non-economic goals, such as increased animal welfare, and the results imply that they can be implemented without negative impact on the economic performance of the farm.

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Effciency and productivity of conventional and organic farms in Finland 1994-1997

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Using data envelopment analysis for the assessment of technical efficiency of units with different specialisations: An application to agriculture

Using data envelopment analysis for the assessment of technical efficiency of units with different specialisations: An application to agriculture

Technical efficiency and total factor productivity changes in European dairy farm sectors

Which preventive measures against mastitis can increase the technical efficiency of dairy farms?

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