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Differences In Efficiency Among Kansas Beef Cow Producers (1998), S. Eidson, Michael R. Langemeier, R. Jones
Differences In Efficiency Among Kansas Beef Cow Producers (1998), S. Eidson, Michael R. Langemeier, R. Jones
Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station Research Reports
Beef cow producers must manage costs of production and improve production efficiency to compete with hog and poultry and other beef cattle producers. A sample of 46 beef cow enterprises from the Kansas Farm Management database was used to measure technical, economic, and overall efficiencies. On average the farms were 92% technically efficient, 80% economically efficient and 73% overall efficient. Our results suggest that 5% increases in economic and scale efficiencies would increase profit per cow by $20 and $24, respectively.