cents per box, a decrease of 5.8 percent from 1981-82 levels.
4.8 percent from their 1981-82 levels respectively.
cents per box, an increase of 5.8 percent from 1981-82 levels.
4.8 percent respectively from 1981-82 season estimates.
R. Clegg Hooks is an Assistant in Food and Resource Economics.
fruit or approximately 12.5 percent of total Florida production [4, p.
fruit or approximately 14.5 percent of total Florida production [4, p.
average of 2.1 million boxes per firm.
contract and company crews and equipment.
operation or on information provided by other firms in the sample.
distribution of type of fruit by method or destination.
weights are the share of total boxes harvested by the firm).
cluded in the information obtained from a few firms.
picker was approximately 64.6 percent of the labor cost.
bAlso includes workmen's compensation and fringe benefits.
percent of the firms are within the range of two standard deviations from the mean.
decreased 5.8 percent from the previous season.
grapefruit, tangerines and tangelos, respectively.
steadily over the past 33 seasons (Table 2).
represent 23 percent of the delivered-in value of the fruit.
the seasons prior to 1981-82 are from Hooks .
bprior to 1976-77 pick, load and haul costs were not calculated for tangelos.
COol. 4 = (col.3/col.2) X 100.
estimated to be 2.32 times the base period.
1981-82 Season. Winter Haven: 1983.
Season Annual Report. Winter Haven: 1982.
 Hooks, R. Clegg, A. H. Spurlock and Richard L. Kilmer.