Figure 11. Long-run Average Cost Curves for Broiler Processing 

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Entrepreneurial Costs 



This analysis assumes an entrepreneur for all firm sizes; but costs 

 in Table 7 do not include any payments to the entrepreneur. However, 

 that level of income that an entrepreneur expects to receive for setting 



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