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Ag Marketing Exam 1

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____ new food products are launched every day.   34  
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Great variation on __ ___ __ trends   individual product consumption  
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Branding Advantages:   Use of advertising and promotion Brand loyalty Market segmentation Profit through price control Corporate image  
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Attributes/objectives of effective advertising:   Create product awareness for a new product Emphasize special features of existing products Brand name reminder advertising Build consumer demand to pull product through channel  
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Provides purchase incentives like coupons; can be directed to distributors   Promotion  
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Marketing Functions:   Storage Transportation Processing and Packaging  
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Set of firms that move a commodity from the farm to the consumer   Input Supplier, production, assembly, processing, wholesaling, retailing, consumption  
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Consumer concerns:   Environmental - energy use, water, land, air, animal Animal production and processing Biotechnology and GMOs Social - farm labor, poverty  
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Describe food demand today:   Less meal prep at home Meal planning done just before meal time Avg. shopping trip = 20 minutes Meal prep time = 20 minutes Food service activities will capture consumer food expenditure growth  
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Factors affecting consumption patterns:   Increased income More dual income families More single parent families Changing lifestyles  
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Reduces buyer and seller search and transaction costs and fosters a more efficient price discovery process   Uniform food quality grades  
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Demand Curve Shifters   Income Price of substitutes and complements Tastes and Preferences Number of consumers Expectations  
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A tendency for the share of a family's (or the nation's) income spent for food to fall as income rises   Engel's Law  
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As you make money, the proportion of food expenditures to income tends to be smaller. Why?   Increased disposable income Decreased percentage of income spent for food  
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Product that reduces the amount of time, effort, or additional ingredients required of the consumer in preparing food.   Convenience food  
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Identified group or submarket within the total market with different perceived needs   Market Segments  
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Process of identification and focusing on such target markets with differentiated strategies   Market Segmentation  
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Us Food Market: Buys around ___ % of the US agricultural production.   70  
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Us Food Market: __ Market for food; overall growth related to population increased.   Mature  
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Each level has to be achieved before the next comes into play; 5 levels   Maslow's Need Hierarchy: Survival Security Social Self-Actualization Self-Esteem  
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What country has the cheapest food costs in the industrialized world, and the smallest percentage of their total income of food?   United States  
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Consumer concerns about food products:   Nutrition Food Safety - microbiological, chemical, contaminants Quality and Shelf life  
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The more highly __ the product, the ___ the percentage of the price that goes back to the farmer.   processed; lower  
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__ are receiving a higher percentage of the increase spending compared to the producers   Agribusinesses  
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Increasing demand for food service?   Increased demand for more processed, consumer friendly products  
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What is the difference between a firm that sets price versus a firm that works with other firms to fix the price?   Monopoly vs. cartel  
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What is the market structure of a firm that sets price?   Monopoly or Monopolistic Competition  
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Agribusiness with product differentiation with "low farm component" (product marketing)   Price Markers  
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Analysis of entire market   Macro-marketing  
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The performance of business activities that direct the forward flow of goods and services to customers and that accomplish the farmers' or firms objectives   Micro-marketing  
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The functional approach is made of what?   Exchange Physical Facilitating  
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Top 2 Crop Commodities   Corn Soybeans  
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__ sales are larger than __ sales for the first time.   crop; livestock  
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List 3 reasons for value-added trade growth   Increase in disposable incomes in importing countries Lower trade barriers Changing consumer tastes and preferences  
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What is the average US farm size?   434 acres  
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What are the two flows of marketing?   Physical Exchange  
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What is the approach that studies individuals, agencies, and businesses that promote the marketing process?   Institutional  
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What is the dollar amount of sales for Virginia Agriculture?   3 billion  
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What is the #1 commodity produced in Virginia?   Broilers  
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What is the global population?   7 billion  
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What do farming, storage, and transportation do to a product?   Add value  
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Buying increases as price decreases   Law of demand  
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Average farm size in Virginia   180 acres  
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How many of Virginia agribusinesses are fortune 500 industries?   5  
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Why has corn production increased?   Ethanol  
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The port of Virginia is within a day's drive for __ people.   97 million  
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What are the highest valued livestock?   Cattle/calves  
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Changes in the quantity supplied represent -   Supply  
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What percent of US ag is sold abroad?   30%  
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Agribusinesses with none or weak product differentiation and "high farm component" (commodity handling)   Margin Makers  
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Few buyers   Oligopsony  
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The 4 P'S:   Price Place Production Promotion  
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Differentiated products associated with downward sloping demand curve; producer can control price over a limited range depending upon the degree; the seller does not face an unlimited demand at a set price   Monopolistic Competition  
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Selling   Merchandising  
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Economic goods that can be legally produced and sold by almost any one   Commodities  
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Limited resources can be shifted in the short run. Supply is ___.   inelastic  
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Due to biological lags, farmers' outputs are based on __ __, well before harvest.   Expected prices  
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Cannot be differentiated from production of others; cannot be promoted by individual producers because market entry is easy   Agricultural Commodities  
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The time period between the production decision and the delivery due due to the biological nature of agricultural products   Biological Lags  
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Adds form utility to the product   Processing and Packaging  
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Adds place utility to the product   Transportation  
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Adds time utility to the product   Storage  
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Buying   Procurement  
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Intended to educate/persuade the consumer (information)   Advertising  
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Refers to the firm's adding of value to the raw commodities through processing and packaging of products such as bread, frozen pizza, and cereal.   product marketing  
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Facilitating Functions:   standardization market intelligence financing risk bearing  
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Differentiated from production of all others; manufacturer sets price; advertising and promotion are effective; may be copyrighted, patented, or trademarked; greater number of marketing alternatives   Food production  
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Expanded to address food safety and quality throughout the channel; a preventative system primarily adopted by processing plants   HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points)  
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For poultry and eggs, the farmer receives about __% of the consumer dollar.   41  
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US Food Market: Over ___ million consumers   300  
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Demand for a good occurs as a result of the demand for another intermediate of final good   Derived Demand  
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One buyer   Monopsony  
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Take the product to the consumers   Push  
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Get the consumer to come to you   Pull  
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Price difference between what farmers receive and consumers pay   Farm-to-Retail Price Spread  
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Along the marketing chain, the difference between the buying and selling price   Margin  
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The sorting of unlike lots of same products into uniform categories; according to quality standards   Grading  
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Refers to firms handling commodities through the marketing channel with little processing involved   Commodity Handling  
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Handlers experience __ __ __ with small profit margins   heavy price competition  
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The main technique non-perfectly competitive firms use to develop and maintain market share   Effective Advertising  
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