Figure 8.2 Costs of assembly and processing
, storage, and shipping functions. More than one elevator at the same site would result in higher costs than those that would accrue if the same volume were handled in one facility. A cost-efficient system would have elevators serving nonoverlapping areas, and the individual farmer would have access to more than one buyer only by incurring added transportation costs. Even despite the appearance of large number of elevators, there remains some possibility for prices to deviate from costs