Differences in efficiency among Kansas beef cow producers

Beef cow producers must manage costs sample of Kansas cow-calf producers and to of production and improve production effidetermine the impact inefficiencies have on ciency to compete with hog and poultry and profitability. other beef cattle producers. A sample of 46 beef cow enterprises from the Kansas Farm Management database was used to measure technical, economic, and overall efficiencies. The data used in this study were from the On average the farms were 92% technically Kansas Farm Management Association dataefficient, 80% economically efficient, and base. The 46 operations we studied had 73% overall efficient. Our results suggest continuous data from 1992 to 1996. Four that 5% increases in economic and scale regions of Kansas were represented; southefficiencies would increase profit per cow by east (27 farms), northcentral (11 farms), $20 and $24, respectively. northeast (5 farms), and northwest (3 farms).