Identifying Efficient Dairy Producers Using Data Envelopment Analysis

Stokes, Jeffrey R.; Tozer, Peter R.; Hyde, Jeffrey

doi:10.3168/jds.2006-596

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“…In this case, two different DEA models have been applied that focus on natural and economic inputs and outputs. The results obtained verified that it is more important to combine in an efficient context both natural and economic resources than to focus on output maximization and, more specifically, milk maximisation [28]. Regarding the same trend, a similar study identified efficiency scores of different combinations of management practices and feeding [29,30].…”

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Assessing and Explaining the Efficiency of Extensive Olive Oil Farmers: The Case of Pelion Peninsula in Greece

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Abstract:The production of olives and olive oil in the Mediterranean region is one of the most important cultivations. The continuous changes imposed by the European Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) towards strengthening the influence of market forces have increased the necessity for the assessment of the efficiency of production protocols or patterns being implemented by the farmers. As regards olive trees cultivation, the efficiency of inputs utilization has not been studied in depth, despite the fact that this is a critical issue for both farmers and consumers. This study evaluates the efficiency rates of 100 Greek agricultural holdings specialized on olive trees cultivation by implementing a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) input oriented model. The inputs being used are land, fertilizers, agrochemicals, labour, and energy. The output being used is the revenue of each holding. The results quantify the significant variations of efficiency scores, providing evidence that there is space for restructuring the production process, in order to improve efficiency and thus decrease the production cost of inefficient farmers.

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Assessing and Explaining the Efficiency of Extensive Olive Oil Farmers: The Case of Pelion Peninsula in Greece

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“…A dairy farm's technical efficiency is a measure of the farmer's ability to use production inputs as intensively as possible, and is a necessary condition for profitable farms. During the last few years, several studies (Lawson et al, 2004;Stokes et al, 2007;Hansson and Ö hlmé r, 2008) on dairy farms' technical efficiency present unequivocal results: average performing farms could become more efficient by adjusting to the practices used by the most efficient, best-practice farms. Thus, farms can reduce their use of production inputs and consequently reduce their current production costs, leading to more profitable and long-term sustainable farms.…”

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

Hansson

Szczensa-Rundberg

Nielsen

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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“…2009;Coelli et. all 2005., Tauer, 1998Jaforullah and Whiteman, 1999;Stokes et al, 2007;Kumbhakar and Lovell, 2000;Emvalomatis, 2010) in the literature the "multiple input and output measurement".…”

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Dutch, Hungarian and German dairy farms technical efficiency comparison

Kovács

Emvalomatis

2011

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The abolishment of the dairy quota system in the EU is expected to increase competition across dairy farms in Europe. Assuming a common price for milk in the EU, only the most efficient farms will survive in the new environment. The main objective of the paper is to compare dairy farms in Germany, The Netherlands and Hungary about their technical efficiency. In the first part of the research, the efficiency is measured by partial efficiency indexes using one dimensional efficiency measuring. In the second part, the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) have to be used to measure efficiency in a multidimensional space, using six inputs and two outputs. It appears from the results that the highest efficiency farms are in the Netherlands, and then Germany and Hungary follow. If we want to eliminate the low sample size effect, we can assume a common frontier, which decreases the efficiency scores a bit, and makes the Hungarian results more reliable. With respect the abolishment of the dairy quota system, our results suggest that the Dutch farms are the most efficient, thus probably they will increase their production after the quota system. But because the size of the country we cannot expect dramatic changes in the European Dairy market. The Germans farms efficiency is lower, but their efficiency is also lower, so we won’t expect high increase about the dairy supply. The Hungarian dairy sector is not so efficient like the Dutch, and the size of the sector has also small among the European countries, thus if they want to survive the quota system demolishing, they have to increase their technical efficiency.

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Identifying Efficient Dairy Producers Using Data Envelopment Analysis

Cited by 55 publications

References 11 publications

Assessing and Explaining the Efficiency of Extensive Olive Oil Farmers: The Case of Pelion Peninsula in Greece

Assessing and Explaining the Efficiency of Extensive Olive Oil Farmers: The Case of Pelion Peninsula in Greece

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

Dutch, Hungarian and German dairy farms technical efficiency comparison

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