Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Estimating Agricultural Costs of Production: Workshop Proceedings
There is no clear answer as to the better source. The engineer probably knows more about the technical capabilities of a machine and a labor efficiency expert probably knows more about labor requirements for accomplishing a specific task. But the farmer may know something more about what he in fact does than either expert.
One thing is clear. It costs far less to get information from a few experts than a large sample of farmers. The high costs of surveys and the problems of respondent burden are likely to push us toward more intelligent and imaginative use of expert Opinion in the future than we have in the past. The use of producer panels, the delphi technique, and other methods should be explored.
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