Economic Feasibility of Assembling Grade-A Milk by Protein Content

This thesis consisted of two computerized simulations of assembling milk from dairy farms and distributing it to milk plants, using TRUCKSTOPS, a commercial truck routing computer program. In the first simulation milk was assembled and delivered to the nearest available plant without regard to prote...

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Main Author:	Lei, Stephen
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Subjects:	economic freasibility assembling grade milk protein content Economics
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spelling	ndltd-UTAHS-oai-digitalcommons.usu.edu-etd-51072019-10-13T05:49:57Z Economic Feasibility of Assembling Grade-A Milk by Protein Content Lei, Stephen This thesis consisted of two computerized simulations of assembling milk from dairy farms and distributing it to milk plants, using TRUCKSTOPS, a commercial truck routing computer program. In the first simulation milk was assembled and delivered to the nearest available plant without regard to protein content, with the high-protein milk delivered to manufacturing plants. Doing so increased the fat and protein in milk delivered to manufacturing plants, and increased cheese production 2.6 percent. It also increased assembly costs and lowered fat and protein in milk delivered to fluid milk plants. The value of the extra cheese was less than the extra assembly costs and the value of the butterfat diverted from fluid milk to manufacturing plants, making the operation economically unfeasible. 1988-05-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/4082 https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5107&context=etd Copyright for this work is held by the author. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user. For more information contact Andrew Wesolek (andrew.wesolek@usu.edu). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations DigitalCommons@USU economic freasibility assembling grade milk protein content Economics
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description	This thesis consisted of two computerized simulations of assembling milk from dairy farms and distributing it to milk plants, using TRUCKSTOPS, a commercial truck routing computer program. In the first simulation milk was assembled and delivered to the nearest available plant without regard to protein content, with the high-protein milk delivered to manufacturing plants. Doing so increased the fat and protein in milk delivered to manufacturing plants, and increased cheese production 2.6 percent. It also increased assembly costs and lowered fat and protein in milk delivered to fluid milk plants. The value of the extra cheese was less than the extra assembly costs and the value of the butterfat diverted from fluid milk to manufacturing plants, making the operation economically unfeasible.
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title	Economic Feasibility of Assembling Grade-A Milk by Protein Content
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Economic Feasibility of Assembling Grade-A Milk by Protein Content

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