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Processing Feed Ingredients: Costs, Labor, and Capital Requirements

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  • Vosloh, Carl J., Jr.

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Excerpts from the report: Processing, or particle reduction, is an important operation in all feed mills. Approximately 60 percent of the output of a feed plant is routed through the processing center for grinding, crimping, or cracking before the mixing operation. Two model processing operations were used in this study to show both labor requirements and operating costs. The smaller model which processes 45 tons during each 8-hour shift conceivably could be part of an 80-ton feed mill. The larger model, part of a 200-ton-a-day feed plant, processes 120 tons in an 8-hour shift. Basic data for these models were obtained from a mail survey and personal interviews of a sample cooperating in the mail survey. Other pertinent information on equipment costs, electricity rates, and wage rates--needed to complete the analyses--was obtained from both industry and Government sources. Questionnaires were sent to a selected list of 225 feed manufacturers in 34 States for the basic data used in these models.

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  • Vosloh, Carl J., Jr., 1965. "Processing Feed Ingredients: Costs, Labor, and Capital Requirements," Marketing Research Reports 312227, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service, Transportation and Marketing Program.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uamsmr:312227
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.312227
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    1. True, Arthur W. & Hardaway, Irene L., 1967. "Economics of Agriculture -- Reports and Publications Issued or Sponsored by USDA's Economic Research Service, October 1965-September 1966," Miscellaneous Publications 321238, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.

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