Flue-Cured Tobacco Production Costs

Verner N. Grise

No 330143, Miscellaneous Publications from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service

Abstract: Excluding land and quota costs, it cost $1,612 per acre, or $85 per 100 pounds, to produce flue-cured tobacco in 1979. Including land and quota pushed total costs to $2,300 per acre or $121 per 100 pounds when land and quota values were based on average net share rent paid. Production costs, excluding land and quota, were highest in the Piedmont region of North Carolina and Virginia. Costs were also higher on farms with small acreages of tobacco than on larger farms that used more mechanized harvest systems. This study examines national and regional costs on farms with various acreages of tobacco, and costs under different methods of harvesting tobacco.

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Crop Production/Industries; Farm Management; Labor and Human Capital; Land Economics/Use; Production Economics; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38
Date: 1981-10
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.330143

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