Eidson, S.Langemeier, Michael R.Jones, R.2010-09-022010-09-022010-09-02http://hdl.handle.net/2097/4800Beef cow producers must manage costs of production and improve production efficiency to compete with hog and poultry and 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. On average the farms were 92% technically efficient, 80% economically efficient and 73% overall efficient. Our results suggest that 5% increases in economic and scale efficiencies would increase profit per cow by $20 and $24, respectively.BeefCowsEfficiencyProfitabilityConference paper