"Shrinkage" applies to losses of all kinds.

Incidentally, some years back (maybe they still do) in Grand Meadow, MN,
they would close a block of a little-used street and pile it with corn.
During the harvest, the farmers would deliver it MUCH faster than the
truckers could haul it away (to the ships in Duluth, the mills in
Minneapolis or the barges in Winona...).

I'm sure the rats had a picnic. And so did the cats...

Jerry

"stone" wrote in message
oups.com...
What's the word for that part of the
crop that is lost to rats.

I think there is a term for this amount
that you simply write off as expected to
be lost.


Thanks.