Determinants of Financial Performance of Commercial Dairy Farms

Hisham El-Osta ; James Johnson

United States Department of Agriculture

关键词: Financial performance;    net farm income;    technological adoption;    Lorenz curve;    Gini coefficient;   

RP-ID  :  TB-1859

学科分类：农业科学（综合）

美国|英语

来源: United States Department of Agriculture Publications

【 摘 要 】

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.