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Abstract
There is some concern that geographic patterns of dairy cooperative
membership, and customary relationships among milk assemblers and
processors, may inhibit milk marketing efficiency in the Northeast. Raw
milk assembly patterns and hard product manufacturing plant locations
are here developed which minimize total regional costs of these functions.
Solutions are highly sensitive to season, day·of-the-week, and capacity
assumptions. Evidence strongly suggests that regional coordination of
milk assembly and manufacturing would result in cost savings and in
some re-alignment of present milk shipment patterns.