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Agricultural
Environment
Visit a place of business
that incorporates the use of land management with a business venture.
Examples are lumbering, farming, fish farming, orchards, etc). Contact
the Extension Service representative in your area for possible agri-business
to experience. Use the topics below as guidelines to fulfill the objectives
of the field experience. We realize it may not be possible to meet everyone
of them at every place. Interview a manager or employee to explore the
following issues:
- Explain the relationship
and the complexity of production, marketing, distribution and consumption
of the product.
- Explain how technology
is applied to harvest this product.
- Explain the key relationships
between the soil, water, and climate that influence this agribusiness.
- What is the economic relationship
of the agribusiness on the state, nation, and world?
- What are the economic and
environmental issues evolving around the agribusness in this area?
- Identify the person(s)
you interviewed in this field experience and state their perspective
concerning the environment.
- Explain how you can become
a more thoughtful consumer of the agribusiness product in this area.
- In your opinion, is this
activity sustainable? Explain.
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