Hanson, Steven D.; Baumhover, Stephen B.; Baumel, C. Phillip

American Journal of Agricultural Economics Vol. 72 no. 4 (November 1990): 1041-1046.

Identifies the characteristics of grain elevators that had railroad contracts during 1983-1985 using a logistic model designed for complex survey designs. Factors which influence the probability of a grain elevator participating in an origin contract with a railroad; Use of data from Kansas and Oklahoma and corn-soybean elevators in Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota and South Dakota.