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INTRODUCTION EGG producers generally have a number of alternative methods of marketing their product. They usually have available alternative methods of performing a given marketing service and alternative uses for their resources, principally labor. Being interested in maximizing returns to labor and other resources, producers not only desire to perform a given marketing service at least cost, but also wish to use the marketing method that will enable them to reach their goal of greatest returns to owned resources. In order to make an intelligent choice of alternative marketing methods, producers need information regarding costs and returns of various methods of marketing eggs. Arsdall and Cleaver (1957) studied times required for cleaning, candling, and packing eggs by hand or by use of a mechanical grader and estimated the flock size necessary to justify mechanical equipment but they made no attempt to compare returns of the two methods. Clayton and Cray (1956)… |
