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.
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