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Economies of scale different between dairy and crops
Aug 22, 2017, 23:43 PM
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An agricultural economics expert says most dairy farms are continuing to get bigger. “There’s a real continuing pressure to get larger for a number of different reasons and they’re all really related to economies of size in one way or another.”
Carl Zulauf from Ohio State tells Brownfield producers continue to see much lower production costs when they operate on a larger scale.
Zulauf says producers with larger herds usually spend a lot less money to make milk.
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