Input substitution and technological development on Finnish dairy farms for 1965-1991: Empirical application on bookkeeping dairy farms

Ryhänen, Matti

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“…Oskam and Stefanou 1997). The adoption of new technology is often related to a simultaneous change in the size of operation (Ryhänen 1994). The harvesting technique of grass silage has also improved rapidly.…”

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Technical change in Finnish grass silage production

Sipiläinen¹,

Ryhänen

2008

AFSci

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Stochastic production frontier analysis is applied in decomposing output growth of grass silage production to technical change, technical efficiency change, scale effect and input growth. For 1990-2000 in a complete panel of 138 Finnish farms, almost three fourths of the output growth was linked to input growth. The annual technical change, the shift of the production frontier, was on average 1.4 percent. Technical efficiency indicated a slightly decreasing tendency, less than 0.2 percent per year. Harvesting techniques were used as indicators of different technologies. The analysis showed that production frontiers differed between harvesting techniques. The choice of harvesting technique seemed to be related to circumstances on the farm. Thus, overall technical efficiency should not be interpreted as a measure of managerial competence when all the factors are not in the farmer's control. Controlling background and production environment related factors yields a considerably lower level of technical inefficiency than the models without the control. It is also shown that in general a more productive harvesting technique may be on average less efficiently utilized when compared to its own frontier.

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Technical change in Finnish grass silage production

Sipiläinen¹,

Ryhänen

2008

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“…His results rejected CES assumption. Ryhänen (1994) estimated the translog cost function of the Finnish dairy farms with large panel data of 1965-1991. His model included four inputs: capital, labor, purchased feed, and purchased fertilizer.…”

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Intensive margin of land use in CGE models – Reviving CRESH functional form

Simola

2015

Land Use Policy

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“…In earlier Finnish studies on productivity change, both econometric estimation (Hemilä 1982, Yläta-lo 1987, Ryhänen 1994, Sipiläinen and Ryhänen 2005, Sipiläinen 2007) and index numbers (Ihamuotila 1972, Sims 1994, Myyrä and Pietola 1999 have been applied. The majority of these studies are relatively old, and even fewer have separately examined grain production.…”

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Productivity growth on Finnish grain farms from 1976 2006: a parametric approach

Myyrä¹,

Pihamaa²,

Sipiläinen³

2009

AFSci

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In the long term, productivity and especially productivity growth are necessary conditions for the survival of farms and the food industry in Finland. The natural handicap and small farm size are challenges, but farmers are further challenged by the decoupling of supports and their transformation into direct income payments. Additionally, farmers' actions are limited by some institutional settings that substantially reduce incentives to improve productivity. Technical progress was found to drive the increase in productivity on grain farms in Finland. The scale had only a moderate effect and for the whole study period ) the effect was close to zero. Total factor productivity (TFP) increased, depending on the model, by 0.6-1.7% per year. The results demonstrated that the increase in productivity was hindered by the policy changes introduced in 1995. The cumulative increase in TFP over the study period was at the same level as the measured yearly changes in TFP. The results highlight the nature of grain farming in Finland as well as the challenges in simultaneously taking into account the general trend and yearly variation in TFP.

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Input substitution and technological development on Finnish dairy farms for 1965-1991: Empirical application on bookkeeping dairy farms

Cited by 5 publications

References 34 publications

Technical change in Finnish grass silage production

Technical change in Finnish grass silage production

Intensive margin of land use in CGE models – Reviving CRESH functional form

Productivity growth on Finnish grain farms from 1976 2006: a parametric approach

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