. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. COST (continued from page 3) cranberry acreage in the state. "A strong argument can be made," Ames and Christensen say, "that at the present state of the art of growing, the traditional 'family' cranberry farm of, say, 30 acres, is becoming the least economically efficient given the fact that general input factor prices rise equally among all growers of all ; CRANBERRY products, the report says, "are the largest dollar volume agricultural export commodity in the Common- ; Massachu
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. COST (continued from page 3) cranberry acreage in the state. "A strong argument can be made," Ames and Christensen say, "that at the present state of the art of growing, the traditional 'family' cranberry farm of, say, 30 acres, is becoming the least economically efficient given the fact that general input factor prices rise equally among all growers of all ; CRANBERRY products, the report says, "are the largest dollar volume agricultural export commodity in the Common- ; Massachusetts, the report notes, accounts for about 45 per cent of national production in cranberries. Average per acre production in Massachusetts from 1969-78 was barrels, the report states, while Wisconsin production was 127 barrels. The report was stimulated in part by a belief among Massachu- setts growers that production costs in the Bay State are higher than elsewhere. In more than 75 per cent of the cases, the costs of labor, property taxes, insurance, etc., were taken directly from IRS Schedule F's willingly supplied by the growers. About the authors William S. Ames, 45, is a research assistant and a candidate for an MS degree in the Depart- ment of Food and Resource Economics, University of Mass- achusetts. He has owned and operated Ames-Alderbrook Farm, a hay production farm, in West Boxford, Mass., since 1974. Ames had been an investment banker with Bacon, Whipple and Co., Chicago, from 1961-66, and Bosworth, Sullivan and Co., Colorado, '68-70. He also has done market research for Research in Cambridge, served as sporting goods manager for Sears Roebuck, Chicago, and owned and operated the Dutch Henry Ranch in Basalt, Colo. The former investment banker holds a BA in history from Princeton University, 1955, and attended the Univer- sity of North Carolina Law School and the University of Chicago School of Business. In 1961 he lived and studied in the Soviet Union
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