 Cotton Gin Operating Costs in West TexasCharles A. Wilmot, Dale L. Shaw and Zolon M. Looney No 313173, Marketing Research Reports from United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service, Transportation and Marketing Program Abstract: Excerpts from the report: Cotton ginners throughout the Cotton Belt have recently experienced some of the most difficult times in the history of ginning. The past decade has seen a rapid increase in the development and adoption of higher capacity ginning facilities to meet the faster rates of harvest and the competition from other ginning firms. The objectives of this study were to (1) determine the current costs of ginning on the High Plains of West Texas; (2) analyze the effects of declines in cotton production on ginning costs; (3) evaluate the possibilities of reducing operating costs through more efficient ginning; and (4) develop procedures which would provide for an annual updating of ginning costs through the voluntary transmittal of necessary data by managers of sample ginning firms. Keywords: Crop Production/Industries; Labor and Human Capital; Production Economics; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; Resource/Energy Economics and Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:uamsmr:313173 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Marketing Research Reports from United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service, Transportation and Marketing Program Contact information at EDIRC. |
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