5.6 Agricultural Practices + Economic Forces

Question 1

Bid rent theory

Answer 1

Explains how the demand for and price of land decreases as its distance from the CBD Increases

Question 2

CBD

Answer 2

central business district

Question 3

Monocropping

Answer 3

Specializing in one crop for commercial purposes

Question 4

Agricultural cooperative

Answer 4

An organization where farmers pool their resources in certain areas of activity

Question 5

Family farm

Answer 5

A family owned farm corporation that sells its products to some defined market

Question 6

Commodity

Answer 6

A primary product that can be bought and sold such as coffee rice or milk

Question 7

Commodity chain

Answer 7

A series of links that explains the production and distribution of commodity’s

Question 8

Agribusiness

Answer 8

A large corporation that provides goods and services to the agriculture industry

Question 9

Cool chain

Answer 9

Technologies that control the climate in order to transport dairy or spoilage products

Question 10

Capital expenditures

Answer 10

Assists that cost money such as land, chemicals, and seeds

Question 11

Why has there been a decline in the number of dairy farms in the United States?

Answer 11

It is a lot of hard work, dairy farming requires distinctive features, government policies change, and consumer preference changes. As keeping dairy farm gets more expensive, they can’t keep up with that inflation