Evaluating the Productivity Performance of Agricultural Enterprises in Ireland using a Multiple Output Distance Function Approach

Newman, Carol; Matthews, Alan

doi:10.1111/j.1477-9552.2007.00084.x

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“…Alternatively, Ahmad and Bravo-Ureta (1995) find out that most of output growth is attributed to the size effect and to a lower extent to the productivity growth. The sources of technical growth vary in time, doi: 10.17221/112/2014-AGRICECON space and specialization (Tauer 1998;Latruffe et al 2004;Newman and Matthews 2007). "…”

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Change in the production efficiency of European specialized milk farming

Špička

Machek

2015

AGR ECON-CZECH

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Th e aim of the article is to identify the key structural, yield and economic determinants of the change in regional effi ciency of specialized milk farms over the period 2007 to 2011. Th e following quantitative methods were applied on the regional FADN data (panel data of 100 regions): the Malmquist productivity index, the Welsh two-sample t-test, and the linear regression analysis. Th e article put emphasis on the investment activity and investment subsidies allocated in the sample of regions. Th e results reveal that regions with a positive change in the production effi ciency have a signifi cantly higher average milk yield, maize yield, long-term debt ratio, income level, and investment activity than the regions with a negative change in the production effi ciency. On the contrary, investment subsidies per livestock unit do not signifi cantly diff er between the progressive and other regions. Investment subsidies are slightly higher in the regions with a negative change in the production effi ciency and continuously help them to mitigate the drop in technical effi ciency.

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Change in the production efficiency of European specialized milk farming

Špička

Machek

2015

AGR ECON-CZECH

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“…Since 1965, aimed at assessing the impact of the Common Agricultural Policy towards European farmers belonging to the European Countries, the European Economic Community by the Council Regulation number 79 has set up an annual survey on a sample of farmers called Farm Accountancy Data Network or FADN (EC, 2014). Addressing the attention to Ireland, in order to investigate if there is a nexus between farm's productive specialization (type of farming) and efficiency, several quantitative studies have assessed in some farms specialized in milk production the trend of efficiency over the time comparing the efficiency both within systems of production and also among the type of farms such as farmers with sheep (Newman and Matthews, 2006;Newman and Matthews, 2007). However, these latter scholars have argued as the level of specialization of farms in dairy production implied the highest level of efficiency.…”

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Analysis of Economic Efficiency in Some Irish Farms Using the DEA Approach

Galluzzo¹

2018

Turkish JAF Sci.Tech.

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Irish farms are predominately and highly specialized in crops as cereals, protein crops and in dairy productions. The aim of this research was to estimate the economic efficiency in Irish farms part of the Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) dataset stratified in function of their own typology of productive specialization since 2004 to 2015 by a quantitative approach such as the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Positive has been the role of inputs as financial subsidies allocated by the Common Agricultural Policy, the first and second pillar, in increasing the economic efficiency of Irish farms. Field crops farms have not had the best results in terms of the economic efficiency even if over the time, in particular during the economic crises 2008-2009, findings have not been stable with significant fluctuations and a sharply decrease of efficiency as a consequence of economic turbulences. Focusing the attention on the research outcomes in all years of investigation comparing also the different typology of farming, mixed farms and farms with animals, such as specialist cattle, sheep, goats and other grazing livestock, have had the highest levels of economic efficiency equal to 100%; by contrast Irish dairy farms have had the modest levels of economic efficiency close to 77%.

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“…Quebec dairy farms produce milk, beef from culled cows, other livestock products, and crops using several inputs, namely, cows, land, machinery, other capital, labor, and energy. Newman and Matthews () point out that an input‐oriented distance function is a better instrument than an output‐oriented one when outputs constraints on output adjustment apply. This is clearly the case for outputs under the dairy SM policy.…”

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confidence: 99%