. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. repairs, outside hire, pesticides, herbicides and fungicides, sanding, electricity, telephone, packaging supplies, miscellaneous. Fixed costs are depreciation, interest, taxes, insurance. Except for interest, capital investment and land cost were not included in the study. Based on interviews, however, the authors estimate that capital investment would have added another $ to per barrel costs. FOR COMPARISON purposes, throughout most of the report, Ames and Christensen divided the farms owned by the interviewees into seven cate
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. repairs, outside hire, pesticides, herbicides and fungicides, sanding, electricity, telephone, packaging supplies, miscellaneous. Fixed costs are depreciation, interest, taxes, insurance. Except for interest, capital investment and land cost were not included in the study. Based on interviews, however, the authors estimate that capital investment would have added another $ to per barrel costs. FOR COMPARISON purposes, throughout most of the report, Ames and Christensen divided the farms owned by the interviewees into seven categories: 0-5,6-10, 11-15, 16-25,26-50, 51-100 and 101 or more acres. A further classification according to yield of barrels per acre also is made. Cross class- ification tables are presented, showing average yield per acre, average hired labor cost and average property taxes per acre, accord- ing to acreage class and yield class. Extreme variances in property taxes per acre appear, from $ to $265 per acre. There also was a wide range in costs of production. One grower reported costs per barrel below $6. Another gave a figure of more than $30. The latter had COVER PHOTO WILLIAM S. Ames, left, and Robert L. Christensen are the authors of "A Preliminary Evaluation of Cranberry Pro- duction Costs in ; Photo by Stephen Long, UMass Photo Center lost most of his crop to bad weather. One set of figures shows average labor costs increasing 52 per cent, average maintenance and repair of equipment increa- sing 110 per cent and average interest expense increasing 25 per cent between acreage classes 16-25 and 26-50, among the growers interviewed. Average yield, however, increased only 3 per cent. The report is titled "A Prehminary Evaluation of Cranberry Production Costs in ; All of the growers interviewed were promised complete anon- ymity. The 56 growers interviewed work a total of 1,759 acres of bog, about per cent of the (continue
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