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Productivity And Efficiency Difference Among Kentucky Grain Farms, Ahmed Yahya Hussein
Productivity And Efficiency Difference Among Kentucky Grain Farms, Ahmed Yahya Hussein
Theses and Dissertations--Agricultural Economics
This paper attempts to estimate productivity and efficiency for Kentucky grain farms by applying a two-stage Date Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and DEA-based Malmquist method. The study covers the years 1999-2015. Also, productivity and efficiency testing hypotheses among different farm sizes and years are estimated. In the first step, productivity and efficiency indices are estimated through deterministic DEA. In the second stage, a panel regression is run with exogenous variables to explain the productivity and efficiency variation. In general small farms were found to be the least scale efficient compared to mid-sized and large farms, even though the results show overall …