Cost-price: a useful way to evaluate timber growing alternatives.

Allen L. Lundgren

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Cost-price: a useful way to evaluate timber growing alternatives.

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Allen L. Lundgren

Year:

1973

Type:

Research Paper

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

Research Paper NC-95. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Forest Experiment Station

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Abstract

This paper explains how to calculate and use cost-price as an investment criterion for timber and other forest products. Cost-price is the cost (including a return on invested capital) of producing a unit of output, usually expressed as dollars per cubic foot or other unit of output.

Keywords

investment analysis, forest economics

Citation

Lundgren, Allen L. 1973. Cost-price: a useful way to evaluate timber growing alternatives. Research Paper NC-95. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Forest Experiment Station