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Costs and Benefits of Cleaning U.S. Sorghum

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  • Ruppel, Fred J.

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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.

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  • Ruppel, Fred J., 1995. "Costs and Benefits of Cleaning U.S. Sorghum," Staff Reports 278785, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uerssr:278785
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.278785
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