Historical data for feed costs showed that a stationary model was appropriate for forecasting
feed cost for 2010. Regression analysis was also tried, but a P-value (P = 0.718985) greater than
the value of alpha (0.05) was obtained indicating that there was little evidence that a linear trend
exists. Therefore, the weighted moving average technique was used to forecast feed costs for
2010, using the weights for four periods (0.1, 0.3, 0.1, & 0.5) following historical data.