Download or read book Technical Efficiency of Dairy Farms with and Without Sensors written by T.I. Kartopawiro and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the recent years the most common development that can be noticed is the development and increase of the use of sensors in dairy farming. With the use of sensors parameters and indicators of an individual dairy cow can be measured and help the farmer detect estrus, lameness, clinical mastitis, etc. Several sensors, such as the sensors to detect mastitis, are integrated on an automatic milking system (AMS). The use of sensors on a farm requires a different management, to improve cow management, and has a corresponding change in inputs and outputs. The main inputs which the use of sensors can possibly affect are labor costs, animal health costs and available capital. Since the use and development of sensors is increasing, an urge has grown for a clear analysis of the economic value of a sensor system. Therefore, the objective of this study is to investigate and compare the Technical Efficiency of dairy farms with and without sensors.

Download or read book Technical Efficiency of Northeastern Dairy Farms Based on Alternative Production Frontier Methodologies written by Laszlo Rieger and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Measuring Technical Efficiency of Dairy Farms with Imprecise Data written by Amin Mugera and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article integrates fuzzy set theory in the data envelopment analysis (DEA) framework to compute technical efficiency scores when input and output data are imprecise. The underlying assumption in conventional DEA is that input and output data are measured with precision. However, production agriculture takes place in an uncertain environment, and, in some situations, input and output data may be imprecise. We present an approach of measuring efficiency when data are known to lie within specified intervals and empirically illustrate this approach using a group of 29 dairy producers in Pennsylvania. Compared to the conventional DEA scores that are point estimates, the computed fuzzy efficiency scores are interval bound allowing the decision maker to trace the performance of a decision-making unit at different possibility levels.

Download or read book Comparing the Technical Efficiency of Organic and Conventional Dairy Farms in the Netherlands written by Ogaro Brian Omoke and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Farm Heterogenity and Technical Efficiency written by Almas Heshmati and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Estimation of Technical Efficiency and Technical Progress Free from Farm specific Effects written by Subal C. Kumbhakar and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dairy Farm Technical Efficiency and Milk Total Factor Productivity Growth in Three South American Countries written by Victor Hugo Moreira López and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Measurement of Technical Efficiency written by Ricardo E. Quiroga and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dairy Farm Technical Efficiency and Milk Total Factor Productivity Growth in Three South American Countries written by Victor Hugo Moreira López and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Technology Adoption and Technical Efficiency written by Carlos D. Mayen and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We compare productivity and technical efficiency of organic and conventional dairy farms in the United States. We address self-selection into organic farming by using propensity score matching and explicitly test the hypothesis that organic and conventional farms employ a single, homogeneous technology. Utilizing the 2005 Agricultural Resource Management Survey on Dairy Costs and Returns Report (ARMS) data, we reject the homogeneous technology hypothesis and find that the organic dairy technology is approximately 13% less productive. However, we find little difference in technical efficiency between organic and conventional farms when technical efficiency is measured against the appropriate technology.

Download or read book Productivity and Technical Efficiency of Conventional and Organic Dairy Farms in the Swiss Mountain Region Using Stochastic Frontier Analysis written by Moritz Flubacher and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Data Envelopment Analysis in Determining Factors that Influence Technical Efficiency Levels on Dutch Dairy Farms written by P.H.M. Rooijakkers and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Driving and Restraining Forces for Economic and Technical Efficiency in Dairy Farms written by Helena Hansson and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Automatic Milking written by A. Meijering and published by Brill Wageningen Academic. This book was released on 2004 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since this previous International Symposium, much has happened.

Download or read book Cross country Analysis of Eu Dairy Farms Technical Efficiency by Means of Stochastic Frontier Approach written by Róbert Milán Demeter and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Estimating Technical Efficiency Under Unobserved Heterogeneity with Stochastic Frontier Models written by Awudu Abdulai and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article uses panel data estimation techniques to examine technical efficiency of individual dairy farms in northern Germany. To the extent that agricultural production is characterised by heterogeneous production conditions, estimation techniques that do not account for unobserved heterogeneity produce biased efficiency estimates. We therefore estimate a number of conventional panel data models and Greene's recently proposed true random-effects model, as well as an extension of the model to ascertain the effects of different specification on the production function and efficiency estimates. Our results appear to support theoretical expectations and previous findings according to which a specification that is both time-variant and also controls correlations between unobserved heterogeneity and the explanatory variables avoids heterogeneity bias and thus ensures consistent efficiency estimates.

Download or read book Estimating Technical Efficiency of Australian Dairy Farms Using Alternative Frontier Methodologies written by Iain Mcpherson Fraser and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: In this paper we estimate and examine technical efficiency for a cross-section of Australian dairy farms using various frontier methodologies; Bayesian and Classical stochastic frontiers, and Data Envelopment Analysis. Our results indicate technical inefficiency is present in the sample data. We also identify statistical differences between the point estimates of technical efficiency generated by the various methodologies. However, the rank of farm level technical efficiency is statistically invariant to the estimation technique employed. Finally, when we compare confidence/credible intervals of technical efficiency we find significant overlap for many of the farms' intervals for all frontier methods employed. Our results indicate that the choice of estimation methodology may matter, but the explanatory power of all frontier methods is significantly weaker when we examine interval estimate of technical efficiency