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Energy Efficiency in Food Processing in the Southern Region

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  • Broder, Josef M.
  • Booth, John T.

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Food processing accounts for a large part of the total energy consumed in the food and fiber system, second only to household preparation. Havlicek and Capps emphasized that processing and distribution of food and fiber require 12 to 17 percent of the total U.S. energy budget. Thus far, research on energy use by agriculture in the southern region has concentrated on production of raw products at the farm level (Debertin and Pagoulatos) and consumption of food in the home (Lovingood and Goss; Rhee and Drew). The large processing and distribution network has been generally excluded from analysis because of a lack of information on energy used in these industries. Comprehensive data bases on energy use in food processing have been relatively limited because of the imperfectly competitive nature of food processing industries and because of unfavorable costs and benefits of compiling such information. Because of a lack of accurate and reliable data, little is known about the behavioral relationship of energy use in food processing and distribution.

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  • Broder, Josef M. & Booth, John T., 1981. "Energy Efficiency in Food Processing in the Southern Region," Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Cambridge University Press, vol. 13(2), pages 53-59, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jagaec:v:13:y:1981:i:02:p:53-59_02
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    1. Tew, Bernard V. & Broder, Josef M. & Musser, Wesley N. & Centner, Terence J., 1985. "Market Failure In Multiphase Electric Power Development For Agricultural Irrigation," Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics, Southern Agricultural Economics Association, vol. 17(2), pages 1-9, December.

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