Farmer's Earnings Vary Greatly in So. Minnesota

In Finland, expanding dairy farms often face the problem of additional fields being geographically distant and only available as small parcels. We develop a stochastic production frontier model to estimate the technical efficiency of Finnish dairy farms and simulate the effect of parcel distance...

In the context of the market deregulation process the EU dairy sector has been reinforced by the Milk Package, comprising a series of measures addressed to producers Ì organizations to encourage them to participate in the dairy chain conduct. The aim of the paper is to explore if milk producers...