Author: Shelby Herbert Holder Jr.

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-10

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 9780428727185

Excerpt from Costs of Building and Operating Rice Drying and Storage Facilities in the South Capital requirements and operating costs were analyzed using economic engineering techniques to develop average cost curves for concrete upright type commercial rice dryers with storage capacities of approximately and hundredweight. Capital requirements ranged from over three quarters of a million dollars for the hundredweight facility to over 2 million dollars for the hundredweight plant. Taken in order of plant size, the operating costs-based on estimated receipts of 135 percent of net storage capacity - were and per hundredweight. The hundredweight plant could not cover costs even at a receipt level equivalent to times its net storage capacity. Break - even volumes for the 300,000, and hundredweight facilities were approximately and times net storage capacity, respectively. Keywords: Rice, grain elevators, Southern Region, economic engineering, cost functions, economy of scale. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.