Technical Efficiency of U.S. Organic Farmers: The Complementary Roles of Soil Management Techniques and Farm Experience From: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review | Date: October 1, 2006| Author: Lohr, Luanne; Park, Timothy A | Copyright Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association Oct 2006. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Agricultural policymakers place increasing emphasis on developing efficiency measures for organic producers in order to evaluate regulatory strategies and evolving organic market conditions. We develop technical efficiency measures for U.S. organic farmers using a stochastic production frontier. Farm decisions about acquiring and managing organic soil materials from on-farm and local sources are incorporated into the technical efficiency measure. Productivity differences between newer entrant...

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