Costs and Economies of Scale in Turkey Processing Plants

George B. Rogers and Earl H. Rinear

No 312180, Marketing Research Reports from United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service, Transportation and Marketing Program

Abstract: Excerpt from the report: This study is concerned with the costs and efficiency of turkey processing in recent years. Material gains have resulted from the adoption of new technology and machinery, increases in plant size, better utilization of capacity, and changes in industry structure. Processing costs per pound have not fully reflected increases in wages and in prices of other items and services. Nevertheless, there remain wide variations in costs of turkey processing and in the degree of efficiency achieved by individual plants. Determination of the exact relationship between plant size and costs, and the effect of rate of utilization of capacity on costs, should provide plant operators with goals in reducing costs, toward which they can work as industry structure and technology permit.

Keywords: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Labor and Human Capital; Livestock Production/Industries; Marketing; Production Economics; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; Research Methods/Statistical Methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 78
Date: 1963-09
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/312180/files/mrr627.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:uamsmr:312180

DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.312180

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Marketing Research Reports from United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service, Transportation and Marketing Program Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by AgEcon Search ().