Browsing by Author "Eidman, Vernon R."

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    Changing Marketing and Production Patterns of Minnesota Swine Producers
    (Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station, 1981) Greene, Duty D.; Egertson, Kenneth E.; Eidman, Vernon R.
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    Characteristics of the Minnesota Swine Production Industry
    (Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station, 1982) Wilson, Paul N.; Eidman, Vernon R.
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    An Economic Analysis of Three Confinement Farrow-to-Finish Production Systems
    (Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station, 1979) Greene, Duty D.; Eidman, Vernon R.
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    An Economic Analysis of Three Confinement Feeder Pig Production Systems
    (Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station, 1980) Greene, Duty D.; Eidman, Vernon R.
    The feeder pig production enterprise includes a breeding herd, the farrowing of pigs and the marketing of eight-week old feeder pigs weighing approximately 40 pounds (18.2 kgs). A wide variation in the systems of producing feeder pigs exists. The number of litters produced per year and the level of capital investment facilities are two basic determinants of the system's animal flow and the annual total production of feeder pigs. These two characteristics are used as the basis to define and differentiate the feeder pig systems analyzed in this report.
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    An Economic Analysis of Three Confinement Hog Finishing Systems.
    (Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station, 1980) Eidman, Vernon R.; Greene, Duty D.
    This report is one in a series on the economic analysis of alternative swine production systems. The other reports of this series evaluate confinement farrow-to-finish production systems, confinement feeder pig production systems, and a one and twolitter farrow-to-finish pasture system. This series of reports has been prepared under Minnesota Experiment Station Project MIN 14-025: "An Economic Analysis of Swine Production Systems in Minnesota." This publication describes and evaluates three confinement hog finishing systems by calculating annual enterprise budgets and monthly cash flows for each system and then comparing the results. In addition to estimating the profitability and monthly capital requirements for each system, the financial computations are used to evaluate rental payments for hog finishing facilities. 35 pages
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    An Economic Evaluation of Low Investment Swine Production Systems
    (Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station, 1982) Weldon, Richard N.; Eidman, Vernon R.
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    Economics of Owning and Operating Corn Drying and Storing Systems with Rising Energy Prices
    (Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station, 1979) Jensen, Harald R.; Madsen, Jeffrey P.; Eidman, Vernon R.
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    Factors associated with success of fuel ethanol producers
    (2003-08) Tiffany, Douglas; Eidman, Vernon R.
    Economic factors associated with success or failure of dry-mill ethanol plants utilizing corn as a feedstock are analyzed and discussed. A spreadsheet model is used to conduct the analysis based on the assumptions and interactions of various factors. Plant managers and bankers were interviewed in the process of establishing baseline conditions of operation including capital cost per gallon of capacity, ethanol yield per bushel of corn ground, percentage of debt capital, operating expenses of natural gas, electricity, enzymes, chemicals, repairs, labor, and management. Sensitivities were determined and graphed to demonstrate the respective influence of corn price, ethanol price, natural gas price, ethanol yield, capacity factor, and interest rate-debt percent interactions. The model was used to predict the financial performance of a modern, well-sized, dry-mill plants if the prices that occurred over the past decade with respect to corn prices, ethanol prices, prices of DDGS and CO2, natural gas prices, and interest rates were to re-play. Rates of returns on equity of dry-mill ethanol plants were compared to rates compiled in the last decade for a group of 200 farmers in southwestern Minnesota. Patterns of loan repayment, influence of technological changes, and the role of government subsidies are discussed.