a reduced need for farm laborers

an increased reliance on immigrant labor

a diversification of agricultural crops

a division of arable land among more individual farmers

a lack of reliance on cash crops

increased dramatically

increased slightly

remained roughly the same

decreased slightly

decreased significantly

multinational agribusiness

nationalized agribusiness

small-scale farming collectives

individual families

military organizations

Goldberg and Davis

John Carnegie

Tarkington and Gallen

Peter Goldsmith

A company that finds buyers for fair trade coffee and facilitates the purchase from Guatemalan coffee farmers for a percent commission

A factory that buys fruit from local growers and manufactures juice, canned goods, and vitamin supplements

A Florida orange grower who sells his oranges to a local food processing plant every season

A private biotech research company that is genetically engineering a variety of oranges that can be grown in temperate climates

An economist who informs subsistence farmers in underdeveloped countries of market patterns and which crops will be most profitable at a given time

Agribusiness

Globalized farming

Agrinomics

Farming economics

A company made of groups of cranberry and grapefruit growers that produces juices.

A pharmaceutical company that produces antibiotics

A company that manufactures steel and other building supplies

A car insurance company

A logger in the Pacific Northwest who risks his or her life falling trees for $25,000 a year before taxes

A lumber mill in Port Angeles, WA that manufactures lumber, wood chips and various timber products from locally fallen trees

A stockbroker who is currently investing in lumber products in the Pacific Northwest and Southeast Asia

A land grant research college in Georgia that has developed an experimental tree farm in an attempt to study sustainable timber harvesting

A freelance marketer who connects logging companies with manufacturers interested in purchasing raw timber to produce lumber and a wide range of paper products

small-land holdings

government interference

All of these

agricultural efficiency

Agricultural production

Researchers at a public land grant college developing hybridized corn that will increase yields and grow in colder climates

Subsistence farmers in China selling rice and vegetables grown on their respective plots of land in a free market

A supermarket chain buying produce from large food producers and repackaging the product with recognizable brands to sell them to local consumers

A stockbroker investing in a company's development and marketing of a pest-resistant soybean

An entrepreneur who buys apples from local farmers and produces apple juice for resale