Production and Marketing Costs and Margins for Poultry and Eggs (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Production and Marketing Costs and Margins for Poultry and Eggs (Classic Reprint) written by George B. Rogers and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-08 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Production and Marketing Costs and Margins for Poultry and Eggs For many years, the variations in returns received by poultry and egg producers mainly reflected year-to-year changes in output and its impact on prices. Production costs varied somewhat due to; small changes in feed ingredient prices, production efficiency, and use of capacity. Marketing margins were declining to stable, tending to reflect fairly constant spreads back from wholesale levels toward the producer. With feed ingredient prices showing much wider swings in recent years, and with prices of other inputs rising, the need to keep abreast of data on production costs and returns and marketing costs and margins has become more pressing. The Economic Research Service, in cooperation with the Georgia, Missouri, and Pennsylvania agricultural experiment stations, is conducting a program of research to develop better continuing measurements of production and marketing costs. This article is based on some inputs from that program as well as on other recent studies. Figures presented are preliminary and more indicative of relative changes than of precise levels. These series will be refined as more data are collected and analyzed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.