Determinants of Financial Performance of Commercial Dairy Farms

Hisham S. El-Osta and James D. Johnson

Technical Bulletin No. (TB-1859) 52 pp, July 1998

This report uses standard econometric methods to identify important factors in financial performance of dairy farm businesses. On a per-unit-of-returns basis, factors found most important in explaining the variation in net returns per hundredweight of milk sold were cow's productivity, and per-cow forage production and purchased feed costs.

Keywords: Financial performance, net farm income, technological adoption, Lorenz curve, Gini coefficient

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• Front Matter (abstract, contents, summary), 10 Kb
• Introduction, 11 Kb
• Data Sources, 29 Kb
• Methodology, 33 Kb
• Results, 103 Kb
• Conclusions, 12 Kb
• References,14 Kb
• Appendix, 17 Kb

• Entire Report, 189 Kb

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Updated date: July 1, 1998