Masters Theses

Date of Award

11-1963

Degree Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science

Major

Agricultural Economics

Major Professor

Cecil E. Fuller

Committee Members

Stanton P. Parry, A. J. Garbarino, Lewis Copeland

Abstract

The objectives of this thesis were:

1. To describe the movements of feed grains in Tennessee, 1959 and 1960.

2. To determine the cost of transporting corn into Tennessee from external supply centers, by method of carriage.

3. To relate these costs to the spatial arrangements of points of external origin and internal destination.

4. Construction of a least cost transportation model for corn, using price and transportation cost differentials.

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