Determinants of Financial Performance of Commercial Dairy Farms

by Hisham S. El-Osta and James Johnson

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

In this publication...

• Entire Report
• Front Matter (abstract, contents, summary)
• Introduction
• Data Sources
• Methodology
• Results
• Conclusions
• References
• Appendix