Suppose That in 2015,farmers in Western Canada Slaughtered 10,000 Sheep

Suppose that in 2015,farmers in western Canada slaughtered 10,000 sheep and buried them in large open pits rather than truck them to the market to be sold.What would most likely explain this behaviour

A) farmers making a shut-down decision to save the variable cost of transporting sheep to a slaughter house
B) farmers making an exit decision to recover the fixed cost of raising the sheep
C) the rising marginal cost of producing sheep
D) irrational behaviour of farmers