Development and interregional movement in the broiler industry, U.S.A. may be summarized as follows.
1] The live broiler consumed by the Jewish population was very complexity in marketing system, and the typical marketing: channel between the producer and the comsumer representing main flow of the commondity consists of five agencies-independent, that is, local buying station, shipper, wholseler of liye poultry, city processor and retailer. The typical marketing channel changed by a further shift to country processors.
2] The new york-dressed-poultry in Delmarva had an effect upon established trade areas and new marketing channels. In North Georgia, most processing plants sold ready-to-cook, whole ice-packed broiler and finally in packing cut-up chicken suitable for frying southern style. Though the new york-dressed method with only blood and feathers removed was a popular way of marketing before World War II, it was used in a very limited way and in some plants not under federal inspection, and the largest share of broiler output was processed as ready-to-cook birds.
3] The broiler industry in Delmarva made widespread use of marchant credit and available credit to producers for feed and chick purchase had been an important accelerating factor in the expansion of the industry. Aggressive salesmanship, especially, on the part of the feed dealer was a major factor in the early development of the broiler industry.
4] During the rapid expansion after 1945, feed firms were the major contractor and many of them moved from the extension of credit to contsact production. The more prominent types of grower-contract plans ware known as (1) open account (2) open acconnt-no loss (3) profit sharing (4) flat fee (5) point spread (6) feed conversion (7) combination plans. Under open account financing, the grower purchased feed, chicks and other suppliers from the feed dealer and did not pay for then until the broilers were sold. Contract plans used in Delmarva was the profit share contract and in South, there was a trend toward flat fee. In such plans, if the proceeds were less than the cost of thems furnished, the contactor absorbed the loss. The change from open account plan and profit sharing plan to flat fee plan or flat fee plus profit sharing plan has not been the same in all areas. But according to drop of market price,flat fee plan was thought to be the lack of incentive for the producer to do a good job, so that point spread plan and feed conversion plan was developed primarily to provide an incentive to producer for better management.
5] The spatial activities of broiler assembly, chick and feed distribution are an integral part of the typical broiler producing and marketing firm. If production density is increased, reduction assembly and distribution costs are obtained, and the cost-savings resulted from decreased in the average length of haul.
6] Maine and Delmarva broiler farms experienced a generally steady upward trend in income per farm over the 16 years as dis all farms and on the other hand, average income for Georgia broiler farms were stable. Grower payment per pound for broilers produced under contract have declined as refected in the price trend for broilers at the retailer level. In Maine, the decline has been by one-fifth in Delmarva and Georgia by one-third.