Agricultural and Food Science - Selaus asiasanan mukaan "farm size"

    • Are larger farms more efficient? A farm level study of the relationships between efficiency and size on specialized dairy farms in Sweden 

      Hansson, Helena
      Agricultural and Food Science : 4 (MTT Agrifood Research FinlandThe Scientific Agricultural Society of FinlandMTT Agrifood Research FinlandThe Scientific Agricultural Society of Finland, 2008)
      The study explored how economic, technical and allocative input efficiencies in specialized Swedish dairy farms are affected by differences in farm size. The efficiency analysis showed that costs could decrease by 30% if ...
    • Efficiency of Estonian grain farms in 2000 2004 

      Vasiliev, Nikolay; Astover, Alar; Mõtte, Mati; Noormets, Merrit; Reintam, Endla; Roostalu, Hugo; Matveev, Eduard
      Agricultural and Food Science : 1 (MTT Agrifood Research FinlandThe Scientific Agricultural Society of Finland, 2008)
      The aim of this study is to analyse the efficiency of Estonian grain farms after Estonia s transition to a market economy and during the accession period to the European Union (EU). The non-parametric method Data Envelopment ...
    • The impact of distance to the farm compound on the options for use of the cereal plot 

      Tamm, Kalvi; Võsa, Taavi; Loko, Valdek; Kadaja, Jüri; Vettik, Raivo; Olt, Jüri
      Agricultural and Food Science : 1 (MTT Agrifood Research FinlandThe Scientific Agricultural Society of FinlandMTT Agrifood Research FinlandThe Scientific Agricultural Society of Finland, 2010)
      In increasingly competitive conditions, the dominant trend of enlarging the production area of farms is causing a growth in transportation costs making the profitability of cultivating distant plots questionable. The aim ...