Per Unit Costs to Own and Operate Farm Machinery

Farm Machinery Operation Cost Calculations

Module B 4 Per Unit

Primary Author: Vijay Vittal, Iowa State University Email Address: [email protected] Co-author: None Prerequisite Competencies: 1. Three-phase Power Calculations, found in B3 2. Transformer operation, found in T2. Module Objectives: 1. Transform per phase and three phase circuit quantities from Standard International (SI) units to per unit. 2. Transform per unit circuit quantities to per phas...

Farm Machinery Investment and the Tax Reform Act of 1986

The Tax Reform Act of 1986 significantly changed incentives for investing. This analysis specifically examines how changes in marginal tax rates, depreciation schedules, and the investment tax credit altered the cost of capital and net investment in agriculture. A stochastic coefficients econometric methodology is used to estimate an investment function which is then used to simulate the effect...

Association of healthcare costs with per unit body mass index increase.

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to quantify the healthcare costs per unit increase in body mass index (BMI). METHODS This cross-sectional study included 35,932 employees and spouses in a manufacturing company who participated in an indemnity/PPO plan and one health risk appraisal during 2001 and 2002. RESULTS Within the BMI range of 25 to 45 kg/m, medical costs and pharmaceutical ...

Machinery investment decision and off-farm employment in rural China☆

Article history: Received 28 February 2011 Received in revised form 13 July 2011 Accepted 8 August 2011 Available online 19 September 2011 This paper investigates the endogenous linkages between farmers' machinery investment decision and off-farm employment in China. Both the theoretical model and the empirical results based on a survey of 453 households in Anhui Province indicate that agricult...