For the beef industry to be economically
competitive with other meat industries, it is
essential that individual producers strive for
the most efficient, highest quality, least cost
production possible. A sample of 26 Kansas
beef cow-calf enterprises from the Kansas
Standardized Performance Analysis database
(SPA) was used to measure efficiency
differences among producers, as well as
factors contributing toward these differences.
On average, farms were 86% technical, 69%
economic, and 58% overall efficient. Thus,
our results suggest that output could be
increased by 14% with optimal technology
use, and cost could be decreased by 42% if
farms were fully economically efficient.
