Input Quality in the Sugar Beet Industry
Using 23 years of data (1978-2000), this study examines seven vertically integrated sugar beet plants representing three different companies in the United States. The objective of this research is to identify the marginal costs of producing sugar beets for vertically integrated sugar beet processors...
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Western Agricultural Economics Association
2006-04-01
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| author | Michael A. Boland Thomas L. Marsh |
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| description | Using 23 years of data (1978-2000), this study examines seven vertically integrated sugar beet plants representing three different companies in the United States. The objective of this research is to identify the marginal costs of producing sugar beets for vertically integrated sugar beet processors as a way of determining the cost savings from higher quality sugar beets. In doing so, we account for quality differences in the sugar beet input that are used to manufacture the refined sugar output. The results quantify links between high quality sugar beets and lower processing costs. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8c6f633680a14fb3a77463a2f10668962022-12-22T03:45:37ZengWestern Agricultural Economics AssociationJournal of Agricultural and Resource Economics1068-55022327-82852006-04-0131111412810.22004/ag.econ.73167316Input Quality in the Sugar Beet IndustryMichael A. BolandThomas L. MarshUsing 23 years of data (1978-2000), this study examines seven vertically integrated sugar beet plants representing three different companies in the United States. The objective of this research is to identify the marginal costs of producing sugar beets for vertically integrated sugar beet processors as a way of determining the cost savings from higher quality sugar beets. In doing so, we account for quality differences in the sugar beet input that are used to manufacture the refined sugar output. The results quantify links between high quality sugar beets and lower processing costs.https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/7316cost functionproduct differentiationproduction economicssugar |
| spellingShingle | Michael A. Boland Thomas L. Marsh Input Quality in the Sugar Beet Industry Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics cost function product differentiation production economics sugar |
| title | Input Quality in the Sugar Beet Industry |
| title_full | Input Quality in the Sugar Beet Industry |
| title_fullStr | Input Quality in the Sugar Beet Industry |
| title_full_unstemmed | Input Quality in the Sugar Beet Industry |
| title_short | Input Quality in the Sugar Beet Industry |
| title_sort | input quality in the sugar beet industry |
| topic | cost function product differentiation production economics sugar |
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