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Urban Influence on Costs of Production in the Corn Belt

Richard NehringCharles BarnardDavid BankerVincent E. Breneman

出版	SSRN, 2020
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=xwrdzwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

This article determines the relative technical efficiency of rural- and urban-influenced crop/livestock enterprises in the Corn Belt. Farmers in urban-influenced locations are less technically efficient than farmers in rural locations. During 1998-2000, stochastic production frontier procedures indicate that a 10% increase in urban influence leads to a close to 4% decrease in technical efficiency. The most successful urban-influenced farms have controlled costs as effectively as rural farms. They have tended to de-emphasize that nondairy livestock activities--particularly beef and hogs--do not rely extensively on off-farm income, and have relatively large, less residential/lifestyle operations compared to less successful urban-influenced farmers. However, our statistical analysis clearly bears out the refrain in popular literature that urban proximity raises the cost for, and decreases the viability of, traditional farms.