1. Why are larger commercial farms replacing smaller ones in the United States?
A. Many small farms benefitted from decades of increased profitability and have expanded and incorporated.
B. Larger farms offer farm laborers higher wages, causing a labor crisis for smaller farms.
C. Larger farms receive more economic benefit from mechanization and economies of scale.
D. Increased land use for agricultural purposes to meet global food demands has caused increased farm size.
E. Smaller farms are ineligible for many government programs that making farming more profitable.
2. Which of the following is one effect of the large-scale mechanization of the agriculture industry?
A. More people live closer to markets than they used to.
B. It requires a workforce ten times the size of the farming population to process what is grown.
C. There are fewer farmers because very few people can afford the initial expense of becoming a farmer.
D. Like other industries, agriculture now has a global scale.
E. There are more farmers than there used to be because new farmers are attracted to the technology.
3. One effect of the growth of agribusiness is that commercial farming operations
A. sell farm products to packagers and processors instead of to consumers.
B. have benefited from corporate research into producing organic and natural foods.
C. are almost exclusively comprised of corporate entities.
D. sell directly to consumers more often than any time since the 1960s.
E. often sell more product to foreign countries than they do to local or regional customers.
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c-Larger farms receive more economic benefit from mechanization and economies of scale.
b-It requires a workforce ten times the size of the farming population to process what is grown.
a-sell farm products to packagers and processors instead of to consumers.
d-on the basis of distance and its effects on land and transportation costs
b-Government subsidies for an important export allow it to be cultivated nationwide.
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1. Why are larger commercial farms replacing smaller ones in the United States?
A: Larger farms receive more economic benefits from mechanization and economies of scale.
2. Which of the following is one effect of the large-scale mechanization of the agriculture industry?
A: It requires a workforce ten times the size of the farming population to process what is grown.
3. One effect of the growth of agribusiness is that commercial farming operations
A: sell farm products to packagers and processors instead of to consumers.
4. On what basis does von Thünen’s model identify different forms of agriculture in rural areas as compared to areas near the city center?
A: on the basis of distance and its effects on land and transportation costs
5. Which of the following situations describes an exception to von Thünen’s model?
A: Government subsidies for an important export allow it to be cultivated nationwide.