9413 Least Cost Shipment of Texas Cotton

Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Salon C (Marriott Riverwalk Hotel)
Pei-Chun Lai, Scott Tiemann, John R. C. Robinson and Stephen W. Fuller, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
This poster presents graphical and numerical information about the least cost flow of Texas cotton.  A regional transshipment model shows the optimal quarterly flow of cotton from Texas gins to warehouses, intermodal facilities, and domestic end points (e.g., mills, ports).  This model is useful to examine implications of investment and disinvestment in the Texas cotton industry.