Factors affecting cow-calf herd performance and greenhouse gas emissions

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 435-456

  Wang, Tong ^a   Park, Seong C ^a   Bevers, Stan ^b   Teague, Richard ^a   Cho, Jaesung ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Korea Rural Economic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Greenhouse gas emission; Standardized performance analysis; Stochastic frontier analysis; Technical efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894226763     PISSN: 10685502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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