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eistud-25735	Author	EFFICIENCY OF THE USE OF ASSETS IN THE FARMS OF KURZEME PENINSULA IN LATVIA	2009	7	.pdf	application/pdf	4420	228	65	Relation of wheat purchase prices to economies of scale in NuTS 3 Kurzeme region in 2007 Indicators Groups of farms of economic sizes 2 ≤ 4 4 ≤ 8 8 ≤ 16 16≤ 40 40≤100 100≤250 >250 Wheat purchase price, LVL/t 94 80 134 118 117 137 140 % 100 85.1 142.5 125.5 124.5 145.7 148.9 Wheat yield per ha, tons 2.6 3.1 2.5 3.1 3.2 4.1 2.1 Wheat output value, LVL 224 187 2449 9772 32493 135396 45516 Wheat sold, tons (output value/ price) 2.4 2.3 18.3 82.8 277.7 988.3 325.1 Source: author’s estimates according to SUDAT data The Table 5 data and estimates show the very large role of economies of scale: for large farms, the wheat price is 1.5 times higher  than for small farms and significantly higher than for medium farms; several factors determine a higher price for large  wheat farms: higher technological quality of grain achieved o by producing grain of equal roughness; transportation of grain is cheaper if a farm o supplies large quantities etc.. the output value of wheat in large farms (100≤250  UEV) is four times larger than in medium farms ISSN 1822-8402 EUROPEAN INTEGRATION STUDIES. To reflect the polarity of the results, data on groups of farms whose economic indicators differ sharply were used, namely those whose economic size is from 4 – 8 units of economic volume (uEV) for small farms and from 40 to 250 uEV for large farms.	cache/eistud-25735.pdf	txt/eistud-25735.txt