What you have learned about the capacity decision

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A sugar mill receives sugar cane from farmers, extracts the juice, boils it into syrup, and then crystallizes the syrup into raw sugar. There has been an ongoing consolidation of sugar mills, and an increase in the capacity of those that remain. The number of mills in Louisiana was 48 in the 1960s, was 18 in 1999 and is currently 13. In 1999 the break-even point for a typical mill was 600,000 tons. But as the surviving mills have added capacity, the break-even point is now 1,000,000 tons. In 1999, the state's farmers produced 16,000,000 tons of cane, but by 2004, the crop was down to 13,000,000 tons. Analyze this situation with what you have learned about the capacity decision. Is the industry better off with fewer but larger mills, or not?

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