UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

 BULLETIN No. 943 



Contribution from the Office of Farm Management and Farm Economics 

 H. C. TAYLOR, Chief 



Washington, D. C. 



April 30, 1921 



COST OF PRODUCING WHEAT 



ON 481 FARMS IN THE STATES OF NORTH 

 AND SOUTH DAKOTA, MINNESOTA, KANSAS, 

 NEBRASKA, AND MISSOURI, FOR THE CROP 

 ^ YEAR 1919 



By 



M. R. COOPER and R. S. WASHBURN 



Assistant Farm Economists 



CONTENTS 



A Problem Often Misunderstood ... 1 

 Application of Cost Data to Farm Organiza- 

 tion 3 



Summary of Results '. 3 



Basic Factors and Cost Estimates . . 4 

 Method, Scope, and Purpose of Present 



Study 4 



Geography of Production 6' 



Comparative Wheat Yields 11 



Requirements of Production . . . . .12 



Summary of Costs, by Districts . . . 13 



Range in Cost per Acre, by Counties . 16 



Net Cost per Bushel 21 



Analysis of Items of Cost .25 



Array of Farms According to Cost per 



Bushel, by Counties 47 



Cumulative Per Cent of Acreage Grovpi at 



, Various Costs per Bushel 49 



Cumulative Per Cent of Total Production 51 



Individual Costs per Acre 54 



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