Unpacking Total Factor Productivity on Dairy Farms using Empirical Evidence

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dc.contributor.authorOlagunju, Kehinde Oluseyi
dc.contributor.authorSherry, Erin
dc.contributor.authorSamuel, Aurelia
dc.contributor.authorCaskie, Paul
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-10T10:24:24Z
dc.date.available2022-02-10T10:24:24Z
dc.date.issued2022-02-04
dc.descriptionPublication history: Accepted - 31 January 2022; Published online - 4 February 2022en_US
dc.description.abstractThis study examines the farm-level factors that influence differences in total factor productivity (TFP) on dairy farms. To this end, a fixed-effects regression approach is applied to panel data for dairy farms obtained from the Farm Accountancy Data Network for Northern Ireland over the period of 2005 to 2016. The findings are largely consistent with existing empirical evidence, showing that herd size, milk yield, stocking density, and share of hired labour have a positive and statistically significant impact on TFP, while labour input per cow, purchased feed input per cow, and share of direct payments in total farm output have a negative and statistically significant impact. The more complex relationships, namely age, education, and investment, have been unpacked using interaction terms and nonlinear approximation. The impact of age is negative, and the drag on productivity grows as age increases. Capital investment and education both have a positive impact on farm-level TFP, as well as on their interaction. Policy recommendations on strategies and best practices to help dairy farms tackle productivity constraints are suggesteden_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was undertaken as part of the Northern Ireland Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs Evidence and Innovation Programme [E&I 17/2/04—Productivity growth in the Dairy sector in Northern Ireland: Trends and drivers].en_US
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12518/401
dc.identifier.citationOlagunju, K.O., Sherry, E., Samuel, A. and Caskie, P. (2022) ‘Unpacking Total Factor Productivity on Dairy Farms Using Empirical Evidence’, Agriculture. MDPI AG. doi:10.3390/agriculture12020225.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2077-0472
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture12020225
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMDPIen_US
dc.rightsCopyright: © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/).en_US
dc.subjectagricultural productivityen_US
dc.subjectcompetitivenessen_US
dc.subjecttotal factor productivityen_US
dc.subjectfarm-level productivityen_US
dc.titleUnpacking Total Factor Productivity on Dairy Farms using Empirical Evidenceen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dcterms.dateAccepted2022-01-31
dcterms.dateSubmitted2021-12-06

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