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Farming to sell: the named systems, their markets, and their geography.
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On a large tropical highland farm, hired crews harvest one cash crop for export to overseas buyers. What commercial system is this?
A temperate farm rotates corn and soybeans, raises hogs on feed grown on the farm, and sells animals and crops to processors. What system is it?
A farm near a metropolitan area keeps cows, chills fluid milk daily, and sells to processors serving nearby city consumers. What system is it?
Several thousand prairie acres are planted mostly in wheat, harvested by combines, and sold into national and export markets. What system is this?
Farmers grow olives, grapes, and citrus on hilly land with dry summers, then sell oil, wine, and fruit to urban markets. What system is this?
Intensive fields near a large city produce lettuce, tomatoes, and berries for fresh sale in supermarkets. What system is this?
On dry grassland, cattle graze over a wide area and are sold to feedlots and meatpackers. What commercial system is this?
A mixed crop and livestock farm uses nearly all of its land to grow crops such as corn and soybeans. Where does most of its income usually come from?
Workers on a humid tropical lowland farm cut sugarcane for a mill, and most sugar is shipped abroad. Which system is shown?
In the US, winter wheat is planted in fall in Kansas, while spring wheat is planted in spring farther north in the Dakotas. Why is spring wheat grown in the northern belt?
Use the map. Which commercial agriculture system is centered in the shaded Midwest states?
Use the map of shaded tropical export zones. Which commercial system is most associated with these countries?
The map shades a northern US production belt. Which system is most closely represented?
A farming belt is shaded across the Great Plains. Which commercial system is most associated with this belt?
Use the map. Which commercial farming system fits the shaded region?
Use the map. The shaded states have long, warm growing seasons and ship crops fresh to distant cities. Which commercial system best matches them?
Use the map. Which commercial system is most associated with the shaded belt?
The shaded western and southern states include large areas of dry grassland. Which system is most associated with them?
Fresh fluid milk spoils quickly and is costly to haul. Where are dairy farms most likely to locate relative to the cities they supply?
A creamery turns milk into aged cheese that keeps longer than fluid milk. How does that change market geography?
Leaf lettuce loses quality quickly after harvest. What location pattern helps a commercial grower reach shoppers with fresh product?
Why can wheat farms be farther from city markets than fresh vegetable farms?
A farm sells fresh herbs daily to restaurants in a nearby city. In von Thunen's model, which ring would this farm occupy?
A grower packs grapes for fresh sale and also dries some into raisins. Compared with fluid milk, what market area can this product usually serve?
Use the climatograph for Station A. Which commercial system fits best?
Use the climatograph for Station B. Which commercial system best fits this climate?
Use the climatograph for Station C. Which commercial system fits best?
Use the climatograph for Station D. Its farms sit close to a large city. Which commercial system fits this setting best?
Use the climatograph for Station E, where farms sell cash crops overseas. Which system fits best?
Use the climatograph for Station F. Which commercial system fits best?
A prairie grain farm uses GPS-guided tractors and combines over thousands of acres with four employees. What does this show about output per worker?
A berry farm hires large crews to hand-pick a small acreage for fresh sale. Compared with a mechanized grain farm, what does that imply?
One ranch family manages cattle across a huge dry range using trucks, wells, and fencing. What is likely true of the operation?
A dairy farm replaces most of its hired milkers with robotic milking machines. Which input does the farm now rely on in place of labor?
A tea estate puts many workers and much care into each acre of steep hillside. Farming that uses large amounts of labor or capital per unit of land is called
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