Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute Report No.38

The relationship between prices and quality variables is an important area of research particularly for the more specialized commodities. Price quality relationships are analyzed in this study in the case of malting barley.

The purpose of this study was to analyze the cost structures associated with subterminal facilities. An economic-engineering approach was used to determine the construction and operation costs of four different sizes of subterminal facilities operating at three different plant capacities....

The results from this study represent a pilot effort to develop a functional agricultural trade center classification for North Dakota using retail and professional service functions at each center. Any given center could advance to a higher class in the hierarchy or decline to a lower position...