IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ags/ifma15/345755.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Pr - Determinants Of Full Costs Of Dairy Production In Switzerland €“ A Comparison Of Two Disproportionate Joint Costs Allocations

Author

Listed:
  • Hoop, Daniel
  • Zorn, Alexander
  • Lips, Markus
  • Gazzarin, Christian

Abstract

By means of a maximum entropy joint cost allocation model with farm-specific allocation factors that account for economies of scale, full costs of 198 milk producers in the Swiss plain region are calculated. The effect of farm-specific allocation factors is found to be small; nevertheless it contributes to a more precise joint cost allocation to the enterprises of a farm. Average milk costs are CHF 1.31/kg – twice as high as producer milk price – and differ substantially between farms. In a regression analysis, the herd size and the milk yield per cow turned out to be the major cost-cutting factors.

Suggested Citation

  • Hoop, Daniel & Zorn, Alexander & Lips, Markus & Gazzarin, Christian, 2015. "Pr - Determinants Of Full Costs Of Dairy Production In Switzerland €“ A Comparison Of Two Disproportionate Joint Costs Allocations," 20th Congress, Quebec, Canada, 2015 345755, International Farm Management Association.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:ifma15:345755
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.345755
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/345755/files/15_Hoop_etal_P155-162.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.345755?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Lips, Markus, 2014. "Disproportionate joint cost allocation at individual-farm level using maximum entropy," 2014 International Congress, August 26-29, 2014, Ljubljana, Slovenia 182851, European Association of Agricultural Economists.
    2. Lips, Markus, 2014. "Calculating full costs for Swiss dairy farms in the mountain region using a maximum entropy approach for joint-cost allocation," International Journal of Agricultural Management, Institute of Agricultural Management, vol. 3(3), pages 1-9.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Dieterle, Maria & Schmid, Dierk & Lips, Markus, 2017. "Betriebszweigergebnisse für Bewertungszwecke? Ein Vergleich von zwei Bewertungsverfahren für kombinierte Ackerbau-/Milchviehbetriebe in der Schweiz," 57th Annual Conference, Weihenstephan, Germany, September 13-15, 2017 262005, German Association of Agricultural Economists (GEWISOLA).
    2. Lips, Markus, 2014. "Calculating full costs for Swiss dairy farms in the mountain region using a maximum entropy approach for joint-cost allocation," International Journal of Agricultural Management, Institute of Agricultural Management, vol. 3(3), pages 1-9.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Farm Management; Industrial Organization;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:ifma15:345755. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/ifmaaea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.