USDA Marketing Research Reports

USDA Marketing Research Reports refers to a series of historic publications by the United States Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service (USDA ERS). They were published between 1952 and 1991 and covered a range of topics.

Marketing Research Reports on Poultry

• Vol 22: Poultry farm practices and egg quality. (1952).
• Vol 47: Candling, sizing, packing, and materials-handling equipment and methods used in egg assembly plants. (1953).
• Vol 83: Marketing Georgia broilers through commercial processing plants. (1955).
• Vol 143: Utilization and disposal of poultry byproducts and wastes. (1956).
• Vol 161: Pricing eggs in Los Angeles. (1957).
• Vol 173: Pricing eggs at wholesale in Chicago and St. Louis. (1957).
• Vol 181: Processing poultry byproducts in poultry slaughtering plants. (1957).
• Vol 195: Marketing costs and margins for chicken fryers and fowl sold in Chicago and Minneapolis-St. Paul. (1957).
• Vol 210: Pricing eggs at wholesale in New York City. (1958).
• Vol 224: Interstate trucking of fresh and frozen poultry under agricultural exemption. (1958).
• Vol 239: Electronic bloodspot detection in commercial egg grading. (1958).
• Vol 242: Methods and equipment for ice-packing poultry. (1958).
• Vol 252: Consumer preferences, usages, and buying practices for poultry and poultry products. (1958).
• Vol 265: Poultry availability and merchandising in retail stores. (1958).
• Vol 267: Baby chick transportation: problems and equipment. (1958).
• Vol 306: Irrigation as a low cost method of sewage disposal for the poultry processor. (1959).
• Vol 314: Marketing costs and price spreads for eggs, frying chickens, and turkeys sold in San Francisco. (1959).
• Vol 332: Integrating egg production and marketing. (1959).
• Vol 354: Shipping containers for frozen tom turkeys. (1959).
• Vol 359: Comparative accuracy of two methods of pricing turkeys. (1959).
• Vol 366: Candling and cartoning eggs at country plants. (1959).
• Vol 405: Homemakers' use of and opinions about eggs. (1960).
• Vol 422: Improved designs for commercial egg grading and packing plants. (1961).
• Vol 424: Automatic sizing and packaging of eggs. (1960).
• Vol 434: Price spreads, costs, and marketing channels for eggs and poultry sold in Trenton, N.J.. (1960).
• Vol 440: The Los Angeles egg market. (1960).
• Vol 445: Reporting egg prices at shipping points in Iowa and Minnesota. (1961).
• Vol 483: The hatchery industry: structure, economic changes, problems. (1961).
• Vol 521: Quality of graded eggs at four grading plants. (1962).
• Vol 549: Methods and equipment for eviscerating chickens. (1962).
• Vol 552: Why egg handling costs vary in selected cooperatives. (1962).
• Vol 556: The 14th street wholesale market for meat and poultry in New York City. (1962).
• Vol 584: New shipping containers for short hauls of icepacked poultry. (1963).
• Vol 604: Relations of weights and sizes of broiler parts to carcass weights. (1963).
• Vol 608: Present and potential use of egg products in the food manufacturing industry. (1963).
• Vol 630: Multiple-occupancy warehouses for poultry and egg wholesalers: improved designs. (1964).
• Vol 651: An experimental dual track conveyor system for processing poultry. (1964).
• Vol 662: Evaluation of specified shrink films for prepackaging frozen cut-up chickens at processing plant. (1964).
• Vol 700: Mechanized weighing and packing of broiler parts to exact weights. (1965).
• Vol 740: Bacteriological, chemical, and physical requirements for commercial egg cleaning. (1966).
• Vol 744: Evaluation of mechanized egg-grading and packing equipment. (1966).
• Vol 757: Improved methods, techniques, and equipment for cleaning eggs. (1966).
• USDA Marketing Research Report Vol 760: Homemakers' opinions about and preferences for broiler-fryers and turkeys. (1966).
• USDA Marketing Research Report Vol 773: Systems and equipment for packaging and price marking meat and poultry in retail food stores. (1967).
• USDA Marketing Research Report Vol 782: Costs and economies of scale in egg-type chick hatcheries. (1967).
• USDA Marketing Research Report Vol 784: Competitive position of the Midwestern egg industry. ( 1967).
• Vol 811: Shipping containers for ice-packed poultry: effect on microbial counts and weights of poultry and ice. (1968).
• Vol 813: Efficiency in poultry evisceration and inspection operations. (1968).
• Vol 814: A comparison of returns to poultry growers under contract, operating independently. (1968).
• Vol 833: Cost and performance of polystyrene boxes for shipping ice-packed poultry. (1969).
• Vol 837: An egg grading and processing plant for high-volume production. (1969).
• Vol 850: Pricing systems for eggs. (1969).
• USDA Marketing Research Report Vol 877: Economic characteristics of and changes in the market egg industry. (1970).
• 878: Guidelines for poultry-processing plant layouts. (1970).
• Vol 906: Comparative performance and costs of dry ice and water ice in shipping fresh poultry. (1971).
• Vol 912: Shell egg processing plant design. (1971).
• USDA Marketing Research Report Vol 917: The egg products industry Structure, practices, and costs, 1951-69. 1971.
• Vol 918: Planning a wholesale poultry layout in a multiple-occupancy building. (1972).
• Vol 930: The chicken broiler industry structure, practices, and costs. (1971).
• Vol 965: The poultry processing industry: a study of the impact of water pollution control costs. (1972).
• Vol 973: Improved layout for a fowl processing plant. (1973).
• Vol 1018: Designing an efficient egg products processing plant. (1974).
• Vol 1023: Costs, margins, and projected consumption of turkey rolls and roasts. (1974).
• Vol 1025: Intermodal transport of frozen poultry products to overseas markets: a comparison of physical performance and costs of van container and break-bulk systems. (1974).
• Vol 1046: An evaluation of two shell egg marketing systems.
• Vol 1050: A modular shell egg grading and packing plant. (1976).
• Vol 1055: Viability of a cooperatively coordinated egg complex. (1975).
• Vol 1062: Automated blood and lung collecting and handling systems for poultry-processing plants. (1976).
• Vol 1091: Methods and facilities for grading broilers and turkeys. (1978).
• Vol 1105: Designing shell egg grading and packing plants. (1980).
• Vol 1112: Design, operation, and feasibility of a small on-the-farm egg grading and packing plant. (1980).
• Vol 1126: Evaluation of a shell egg-packing plant layout. (1982).
• Vol 1134: Feasibility of expanding an egg-grading plant to achieve economies of scale. (1983).
• Vol 1138: An evaluation of egg carton materials and design. (1983).
• Vol 1143: Improved methods and facilities for packing broilers. (1986).
• Vol 1152: Improving work stations for meat and poultry inspections. (1989).

Turkey

• Vol 191: Marketing margins and practices for turkeys sold in three eastern markets. (1957).
• Vol 627: Costs and economies of scale in turkey processing plants. (1963).
• Vol 719: Economies of scale in turkey hatcheries. (1965).
• Vol 734: Contracting and other integrating arrangements in the turkey industry. (1965).
• Vol 1000: The turkey industry; Structure, practices, and costs.
• Vol 1006: Methods and equipment for eviscerating turkeys. (1973).
• Vol 1036: Guidelines for turkey processing plant layout(1975).

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