Jay$-$Me Radish has the following annual activity and costs:

Sales $[$unit is box of $121-$lb cello bags. of radishes$]4,200,000$ units

Average selling price per box$$$$3\mathrm{.}00$

Yield per planted acre$375$ net units

Variable Costs:

Farming costs:

$$Seed$$$$91\mathrm{.}00$ per acre

$$Fertilizer & Chemical$$$$70\mathrm{.}00$ per acre

$$Fixed Costs$$$$2,400,000$

Packaging Costs:

$$Grading labor$$$$0\mathrm{.}23$ per box

$$Box & cellophane cost$$$$0\mathrm{.}22$ per box

$$Waste $[$cull removal$]$$$0\mathrm{.}03$ per box

$$Fixed Costs$$$$2,200,000$

Selling & Administrative:

$$Commission$$$$0\mathrm{.}05$ per box

$$Delivery$$$$0\mathrm{.}30$ per box

$$Fixed Costs$$$$1,500,000\mathrm{.}00$

Decisions to make:

$1.$ The company does not assess any costs to its farmland, which it has owned for over $20$ years. It has the opportunity to sell its $2,400$ acres of black muck farmland for $$5,700\mathrm{.}00$ per acre. This would allow the company to pay off nearly all of its $$14,000,000\mathrm{.}00$ bank debt, which has an interest rate of $6\%.$ Bolthome Farms is a large carrot grower; it has offered the to farm radishes on its land by rotating with Bolthome$$s carrots. Jay$-$Me will pay $$200\mathrm{.}00$ to Bolthome for each planted acre of radishes. This rotation would permit a $10\%$ increase in net yield as well as a $50\%$ decrease in fertilizer and chemical cost $($see other factors below$).$

$2.$ A Silicon Valley company, Shyster Imaging, has offered to sell the company two laser grading machines which Shyster estimates will reduce the company$$s grading labor by $80\%.$ The machines cost $$1,750,000\mathrm{.}00$ each and are projected to have a five$-$year life. Similar machines have been on the market for nearly a decade grading and sorting potato chips.

$3.$ The company is considering the purchase of $60$ hydrocooler trailers. These trailers would sell for $$35,000$ each. Each trailer would cost approximately $$350\mathrm{.}00$ per month to operate $($primarily utility costs$).$ This hydrocooling storage increases the life of the radishes by $28$ days. The anticipated useful life of the trailers is ten years. The trailers would permit the company to have radishes during the estimated two extreme weather disasters $[$freeze or tropical storm$]$ per year that substantially damages the crop. Each disaster causes a three$-$week period during which time the company basically has no radishes to sell. The radish price soars to an average price of $$6\mathrm{.}50$ per box for three weeks following each such disaster. These six weeks of $$new$$ sales, estimated at $65,000$ per week, would all constitute increased sales. However, to make this work, the company would need to increase planted acres by $30\%.$ Additionally, the company would incur additional waste removal costs of $$0\mathrm{.}05$ per box.

Other factors $/$ information:

$$The Company$$s position with the bank is precarious at best. It is in the second year of a three$-$year restructured agreement. The bank is secured by all of the Company$$s assets, and the bank$$s president, with whom Jay$-$Me has a very good relationship, has just resigned.

$$The Company$$s farm equipment is old, with an average age of its tractors being over thirteen years.

$$The Company is having problems with rhizoctonia due to less than perfect rotation. Yields are consistently going down; but it cannot reduce plantings and meet its budget.

$$Radishes are a $27-$to$-32$ day crop. As such, normal farming procedures would allow six to seven crop rotations on each acre. Therefore, Jay$-$Me is farming over $11,000$ acres of radishes on its $2,400$ acres due to multiple crops per year. Also, understand that a weather disaster creates a $21-$day void in harvesting because of the technical damage to plant$-$cycle radish growth.

Instructions:

Prepare comparative forecasted Contribution Margin income statements, independently, for each of the three opportunities $($See attached answer sheet$).$

Explain how your amounts in the Change columns were derived.

Explain your decision on each of the three options. Discuss the risks, if applicable, as well as the quantitative analysis.

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