Cost of Marketing Eggs and Labor Output of Selected Cooperatives -- Part II -- North Central States

Excerpts from the report: The study is a renewal of a similar study made in 1950-51 and covers a wider area. That study had three major objectives: (1) To obtain information and data on costs and labor requirements of the several operations or steps in handling eggs for determining averages, ranges, and yardsticks; (2) to determine and measure the factors affecting costs and other measures of relative efficiency, and (3) to find and apply methods, skills, techniques, and other means of increasing efficiency in individual operations and organizations. This is a regional report of the data obtained during 1957-58 from the nine associations in the North Central States. It covers the first objective of the earlier study and includes (1) total costs, (2) direct costs of handling eggs by specific operations, (3) total indirect costs, (4) labor output per man-hour, and (5) costs by type of pack. It is primarily a comparative statistical summary consisting of 25 cost and labor output tables covering the phases mentioned above. It presents direct costs and labor output by associations and individual operations, indirect costs by associations but not by individual operations, and costs by type of pack by associations.