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Consumers' Perceptions of Non-Traditional Vegetable Products in the Southern United States: Summary of Preliminary Results
No full textGrain Exporting Economics: Port Elevator Cost Simulations
No full textA major challenge for cooperatives involved in grain exporting has been to achieve adequate economies of size to be competitive while maintaining the flexibility to operate in a business that is also highly cyclical. Significant economies of size are often attributed to grain exporting, but until recently empirical estimation has been lacking. An economic-engineering technique is used to simulate cost curves for port elevators over a range of capacities. These results are used to construct longrun costs for identifying the economies and diseconomies of size. The simulation model is also applied to economies in the short run. An example is developed that uses simulation for managerial decisions when operating with excess port elevator capacity
