Storage In Marketing Farmers Stock Peanuts PDF Download

Excerpt from Storage in Marketing Farmers' Stock Peanuts The need for cash to repay production loans in the fall, and the high short-term interest rates that farmers had to pay in borrowing money from customary sources to finance storage, appear no longer to be the major deterrents to farm storage that they once were. But the negligible amount of storage by farmers suggests the existence of other limiting factors. Important deterrents seem to be associated with the structure and customs of the market, and the problem of reducing their effect or terminating them re quires an analysis of the whole peanut marketing system. The three main types of peanuts-virginia, Runner, and Spanish-are marketed separately by growers as farmers' stock (unshelled and unsorted) peanuts; they usually contain some sticks, leafy trash, pebbles, and sand. The farmers' stock peanuts are cleaned or shelled before being shipped to the end users for manufacture into such con sumer products as peanut butter, roasted and salted peanuts, nut mixes, and candy. In recent years, peanut butter has accounted for about half of the edible -peanut consumption in the United States. For many years excess peanuts have found an outlet as crushing stock for edible oil, but, in recent years, nearly all good quality peanuts have gone directly into food products. Consequently, processors who supply the consumer market are distributed somewhat like the U. S. Population, principally in a number of metropol itan areas. In contrast, peanut production is concentrated in three limited areas-the virginia-carolina, southeastern, and southwestern peanut - producing areas (fig. Farmers market most of their peanuts during a 2-month period following harvest and field curing. The shellers, crushers, and other dealers then store the peanuts as farmers' stock for periods ranging generally from 3 to 8 months. Thus, farmers' stockpeanuts are held principally in about 20 of the larger metropolitan centers (fig. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.