A producer's membership in any organization will not affect his settlementin any way. The industry will develop educational opportunities for service people to attend that will enhance their communication skills. Companies and producers will be mindful of the changingeconomic needs of each other. DOAs will not be charged to producers. The following graph summarizes satisfied and disatisfied responses by producers on the 21 Best Management Practices for the companies they do business with.
Responses are rank ordered on total satisfied replies.
The survey also identified companies scoredfor producer satisfaction. The following graph summarise the fairness responses by individual company. Conclusion Based upon comparisons with satisfaction responses in other industries, it can be concluded that Alabama poultry growers are dissatisfied with processor company performance on most of the 21 Best Management Practices. In fact growers were more dissatisfied than satisfied on 13 of the 21 Best Management Practices. Stongest dissatisfaction existed for understanding changing economic needs, developing long-term contracts,communications with producers, addressing producer concerns, and setting standards on equipment purchased by producers.