Feeding Practices and Input Cost Performance in U.S. Hog Operations: The Case of Split-Sex and Phase Feeding

Lee Schulz and Joleen C. Hadrich

No 169983, 2014 Annual Meeting, July 27-29, 2014, Minneapolis, Minnesota from Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

Abstract: This study determines the factors leading to adoption of split-sex and phase feeding by U.S. hog producers and consequently the impact of adoption on operation’s input cost performance. A sample selection model is employed to account for unobservable variables possibly being correlated with the decision to use split-sex and/or phase feeding and input cost performance. Results demonstrate that operations using phase or combination of phase and split sex feeding are most cost effective and productive than hog operations using conventional feeding.

Keywords: Agribusiness; Farm Management; Livestock Production/Industries; Production Economics; Productivity Analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.169983

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