Productivity and Efficiency of U.S. Field Crop Farms: A Look at Farm Size and Operator’s Gender
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Keywords
Agricultural and Food Policy; Crop Production/Industries; Farm Management; Productivity Analysis;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2015-08-01 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-BEC-2015-08-01 (Business Economics)
- NEP-EFF-2015-08-01 (Efficiency and Productivity)
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