THE ECONOMICS OF CLEANING WINTER WHEAT FOR EXPORT: AN EVALUATION OF PROPOSED FEDERAL "CLEAN GRAIN" STANDARDS

Brian Adam, Philip L. Kenkel and Kim B. Anderson

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 1994, vol. 19, issue 2, 19

Abstract: Buyer complaints about poor quality U.S. wheat have led to proposals to enforce minimum dockage standards for exports. An economic-engineering approach is used to evaluate costs and benefits of cleaning wheat in order to meet these standards for 13 possible cleaning configurations. These results are used in an optimization framework to estimate costs and benefits of cleaning all U.S. export wheat. The estimates indicate that cleaning U.S. export winter wheat to .35% dockage would cost an average of 1 cent/bu., requiring an initial capital investment of $28 million. Value of wheat lost in cleaning is a significant cost that previously has been overlooked.

Keywords: Agricultural; and; Food; Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1994
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.30758

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