Costs and Benefits of Cleaning U.S. Sorghum

Fred J. Ruppel

No 278785, Staff Reports from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service

Abstract: There is no economic justification for a further tightening of sorghum cleanliness standards, or for separating broken kernels and foreign material into two grade factors: broken kernels (BN) and foreign material (FM). The additional cost of cleaning all sorghum to a maximum 5 percent BN, 2 percent FM level would exceed the additional benefits by $0.8 million. The additional net cost of cleaning only export sorghum would be $0.5 million. The most promising option for increasing sorghum cleanliness is to establish a new grade determining factor by summing dockage and FM percentages, and using the resulting sum as a grade-determining factor.

Keywords: Agricultural Finance; Crop Production/Industries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 74
Date: 1995-07
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.278785

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