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Per Unit Costs To Own And Operate Farm Machinery

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  • Beaton, Aaron J.
  • Dhuyvetter, Kevin C.
  • Kastens, Terry L.

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Entropy and jackknife estimation procedures were used to find that custom rates are 20.3% lower than the true cost to own and operate machinery for an average size Kansas farm. A method was then developed to estimate a farms total machinery costs with which to benchmark machinery costs.

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  • Beaton, Aaron J. & Dhuyvetter, Kevin C. & Kastens, Terry L., 2003. "Per Unit Costs To Own And Operate Farm Machinery," 2003 Annual Meeting, February 1-5, 2003, Mobile, Alabama 35229, Southern Agricultural Economics Association.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:saeatm:35229
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.35229
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    Keywords

    Farm Management;

    JEL classification:

    • Q10 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - General
    • Q12 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
    • C51 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - Model Construction and Estimation
    • C60 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - General

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