Case Name :      Old Mule Farms

Authors :           David Currie, Lorena Mosnja Skare

Source :             Ivey Publishing

Case ID :            910B04

Discipline :        Accounting

Case Length :    07 pages

Solution Sample availability : YES

Plagiarism : NO (100% Original work)

The owner of a cow-calf operation must determine the appropriate weight for cows in the herd. The national trend for decades has been for cow weights to increase because they produce larger calves, but evidence indicates that cow weights may have reached the point where the cost of maintaining a larger cow has become greater than the return from producing a larger calf. Analyzing this issue introduces marginal principles from economics.