Identifying sources and trends for productivity growth in a sample of Queensland broad-acre beef enterprises

Animal Production Science

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 443-453

  Gregg, Daniel ^a   Rolfe, John ^a  

^a CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

scale efficiency; technical efficiency; technological progress; translog

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY; DAIRY FARMING; DECADAL VARIATION; DECOMPOSITION; PRODUCTIVITY; RAINFALL; SAMPLING; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY;

AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 79955976638     PISSN: 18360939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/AN10033     Document Type: Article

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