The Impacts of Railroad Transportation Costs on Grain Elevator Margins

Steven D. Hanson, Stephen B. Baumhover and C. Phillip Baumel

Staff General Research Papers Archive from Iowa State University, Department of Economics

Abstract: A stratified random sample of grain elevators supplied grain bid and transportation cost data. These data are used to analyze the effects of various rail transportation costs on grain elevator handling margins for corn, soybean and wheat. Factors affecting transportation costs such as rail contracts, mileage allowances, and transportation mode are shown to have significant impacts on elevator handling margins and consequently need to be considered in any analysis attempting to explain grain handling margins.

Date: 1990-07-01
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Published in North Central Journal of Agricultural Economics, July 1990, vol. 12 no. 2, pp. 255-266

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