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Factors Affecting Production Efficiency in a New Alternative Enterprise: The Case of the Ratite Industry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Jeffrey Gillespie ,
Alvin Schupp  and
Gary Taylor
Jeffrey Gillespie
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center
Alvin Schupp
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center
Gary Taylor
Affiliation:
Agricultural Economics at the State University of New York, Morrisville
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Abstract

Technical efficiency measures are calculated for ratite producers using data envelopment analysis. Regression analysis is then used to determine producer characteristics that are likely to lead to higher technical efficiencies. Results indicate that the most technically efficient ratite producers in Louisiana are not producing at the benchmark efficiency level advocated by the industry. Producer experience with other livestock, specialization, and labor are factors likely to lead to higher technical efficiency. These results are expected to hold for most new, alternative livestock enterprises.

Keywords

data envelopment analysisratitetechnical efficiency
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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , December 1997 , pp. 409 - 418
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Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1998

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