5.6 Agricultural Practices + Economic Forces Flashcards
Bid rent theory
Explains how the demand for and price of land decreases as its distance from the CBD Increases
CBD
central business district
Monocropping
Specializing in one crop for commercial purposes
Agricultural cooperative
An organization where farmers pool their resources in certain areas of activity
Family farm
A family owned farm corporation that sells its products to some defined market
Commodity
A primary product that can be bought and sold such as coffee rice or milk
Commodity chain
A series of links that explains the production and distribution of commodity’s
Agribusiness
A large corporation that provides goods and services to the agriculture industry
Cool chain
Technologies that control the climate in order to transport dairy or spoilage products
Capital expenditures
Assists that cost money such as land, chemicals, and seeds
Why has there been a decline in the number of dairy farms in the United States?
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