AAEC 3010 final

· What are the 5 P's in marketing?

1. Product 2. Price 3. Place 4. Promotion 5. People

What consideration when choose which type of plant?

1. Type of soil 2. Types and amounts of nutrients 3. Types and amounts of water 4. Climate & growing season

Principles of Biosecurity

1. Vet check before purchase: Prevent spread of disease onto the premises 2. Segregation: Prevent spread of disease between individuals. new animal away fro 30 days

What does TQM mean for a farm manager?

1. building a system to achieve positive results 2.customer oriented attitude 3. affects everyone & every act of the organization

Negative effects of agriculture

1. soil: tillage reduces organic matter & reduced water retention and increases runoff 2. Greenhouse gases: tillage increases CO2 release

9 Macronutrients

1.Carbon 2.hydrogen 3. nitrogen 4.oxygen 5. phosphorus 6. potassium 7. calcium 8. sulfur 9. magnesium needed in larger amounts

Bananas are grown in ____ countries

170

5 section with percentages of technology adoption curve?

Innovators 2.5% Early Adopter 13.5% Early Majority 34% Late Majority 34% Laggards 16%

What is the equation for breakeven analysis?

Total profit / selling price

Define a perennial crop:

a crop that is lasting or existing for a long or apparently infinite time; enduring or continually recurring. Regrow every spring.

types of marketing strategy

paid advertising, cause, relationship, uncover, word of mouth, internet, transactional, & diversity

Farm management is :

the coordination and administration of divers' operations to achieve a goal

7 micronutrients

1. Boron 2. Copper 3. Chlorine 4. Iron 5. Manganese 6. Molybdenum 7. Zinc needed in small amounts

What factors go into sustainable production?

1. Breeding program 2. soil management 3. pest disease & weed management 4. fertility management 5. water/irrigation 6. continuous research 7. capital & HR 8. Climate / weather

Top Agricultural producers by nation

1. China (22% of world population fed) 2. United States 3. Brazil 4. India

Farm Manager skills (3 in 1)

1. Conceptual - a coach 2. Technical - a player 3. Human Resources - referee

6 types of technology

1. Construction 2. Communication 3. Transportation 4. Bio-related 5. Energy/ power 6. Manufacturing

What are the considerations for choose planting methods?

1. Drainage 2. Irrigation

qualities & characteristics of a farm manager?

1. Enterprise knowledge 2. Roles & relationships between suppliers and customers 3. Must show and know what's happening in the farm 4. Has long and short term plans 5. Who is who in the industry

Sections of Strategic Plan of Farm manager

1. Formulation - identifying opportunity & create plan based on resources 2. Implementation - Coordination of divided responsibilities, Organization structure, motivation, Incentive, recruitment & development

5 important characteristics of decisions

1. Importance 2. Frequency 3. Imminence 4. Revocability 5. Number of alternatives

What are the 5 marketing concepts?

1. Production concept 2. Selling concept 3. Product concept 4. Societal concept 5. Marketing concept

Farm Manager code of ethics

1. Professionalism in farming and Agri-selling 2. Farm manager responsibilities to customers 3. Farm manager responsibilities to your company 4. Farm manager responsibilities to the public 5. Farm manager responsibilities to yourself

5 most common business organizations for farms are :

1. Sole (or individual) proprietorship - 87 % of farms U.S. farms are organized as sole proprietorship. 2. Partnership - 7 % are partnerships 3. Corporation - 5 % are corporations 4. Limited Liability Corporations - LLC mostly family owned are shareholders 5. Cooperative - mostly family owned a share holders

______ of banana firms use modern technology. Traditional banana firms are very _________.

15%, Small

What percent of GA farm gate grower values by commodity is Fruits, nuts, & vegetables?

18.4%

What year did UGA muscadine program start?

1909

When was the green revolution?

1960s

What year did UGA pecan program start?

2003 - grant $ & surveys sent out regarding yields from 1998- 2003

Bananas are the ___ most widely consumer food crop after rice, wheat, & corn

4th

Around _____ of all Cameroon Banana farms use the semi-modern technique to farming

85%

_____ of all the Cameroon Banana firms adopt the semi-modern production technique.

85%

Define Biosecurity:

A set of preventive measures designed to reduce the risk of introduction or transmission of harmful infectious diseases or pathogens in crops and livestock.

What is marketing?

Advertising, strategy, product, internet, research

two marketing strategies:

B2B or B2C

______ is one of the top ten commercial vegetables in georgia

Cabbage ($53.69 million annual value)

___ is ranker #1 in banana exports.

Ecuador

what doe a A partial budget will contain___.

Fixed costs, variable costs, opportunity costs

what is 10-10-10?

Gardening fertilizer with equal parts in 10% quantity of of nitrogen, phosphate & potassium

____ is the only state in the US that produces large scale commercial bananas

Hawaii

___ is the #1 producer of banana in the world

India

Examples of Agricultural technology

Indoor vertical farming, farm automation, modern green houses, precision agriculture, Artificial Intelligence

what are some impacts of shortage of workers?

Massive revenue loss on specialty crops & overall net farm income. wasted crops.

What does N-P-K stand for?

Nitrogen, phosphorus, & potassium

why does a farm manager need to be familiar w/ pest/blights specific to their livestock/crops?

Pests cause major concern in yields thus in turn affect revenue fluctuations and in the long run property damage. This is why pesticides are used to protect crops & help farmers grow more food on less land. (productivity / hecter)

Partial budget is designed to analyse the effect of a proposed management change on ______. It is also used to analyze the expansion of an existing enterprise. The purpose of completing this is to evaluate the effect on profit of one particular management change.

Profit

______ imports 27.5% of the worlds bananas & #1 in individual country banana imports

The US

What is HR management?

The practice of recruiting, hiring, deploying & managing an organization's employees to reinforce culture. responsible for creating policies & oversee workers relationship to the organization. reduce rick & maximize ROI

What does soil level depend on?

Topography type Structure Management

What are three types of irrigation systems used by modern farmers

Undertree, drip & overhead

Define a annual crop:

a crop that only grows for one growing season then dies off

What is the purpose of marketing?

capture attention, educate prospects, & convert into liquidity ( serving & satisfying customer needs & wants)

what does not appear on a cash flow budget?

inventory changes

Define technology

the way we apply scientific knowledge for practical purposes. invent tools / solve problems.

Define Agricultural Technology

use of technology in agriculture, horticulture, and aquaculture with the aim of improving yields, efficiency, insect resistance, drought tolerance, herbicide tolerance, disease resistance, & overall profitability

work visa

yes they pay taxes. No cannot apply for Green card (permanent resident status) H-2A : skilled seasonal agricultural worker up to a year H-2B: unskilled workers temporary when there is a shortage of US workers