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Ag Marketing Quiz 5

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One extreme of the marketing channel (simple and short channel)   Direct Marketing  
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Other extreme of the marketing channel (longest/least understood)   Marketing to foreign consumers  
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Farmers, processors, and retailers are _____.   Independent  
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Assemblers and wholesalers tend to be ___ ___.   Vertically Integrated  
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Changes in the marketing channel are due to:   Growing size of farms; concentration in processing and retailing  
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Collect small shipments from producers into larger units for processors and wholesalers   Assemblers  
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Prepare fresh products for market, manufacture prepared foods   Processors  
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Distribution centers, storage, transportation, logistics   Wholesalers  
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Supermarkets, restaurants, fast food, bakeries and cafes   Retailers  
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Includes marketing cooperatives, example: dairy   Assemblers  
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Other options for processors to sell to larger-volume retailers:   Independent wholesalers; integrated wholesalers; agents/brokers; processors may organize a warehousing/wholesaling operation  
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Examples of function elimination:   farmer's markets; vertically integrated farms; farmer's cooperatives  
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Firms that perform that function (assembling, wholesaling) are increasingly OWNED or CONTROLLED by farmers, processors, or retailers but they can also be INDEPENDENT   Intermediaries  
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If an intermediary is independent they can be:   Merchants or brokers  
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_____ ____ and oligopoly structures are the main structures in most M-P Channels   Monopolistic Competition  
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Arrange transactions for a commission but do not take ownership or finance customers   Brokers  
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Do take ownership and consequently bear the risk of price and product deterioration but also benefit for any price increases   Merchants  
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____ is essential to improving productivity.   Leadership  
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The firm in a marketing channel that initiates changes in products, procedures, practices, promotion, and prices. Motivates others in the channel to go along.   Channel Leader  
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Who are typically channel leaders?   Processors and Retailers  
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Wholesaler is trying to sell at ___ price.   Highest  
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Retailer is trying to buy for ___ price.   Lowest  
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Behavior can be both ___ and ___.   Competitive and Cooperative  
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Events outside the channel can shift the control out of the channel. Example: home freezers   External Event  
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Events within the channel such as form and packaging can also shift the leadership roles. Example: boxed beef   Internal Event  
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How do packers benefit from the economies of scale?   Reduced shipping costs, larger salvage volume of bone and fat, better matching supply and demand, use of the lower wages at the packer versus retail.  
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3 packers control ___ of meat packing.   80%  
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Three means of obtaining channel leadership:   Branding; Financial strength; firm size  
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Conditions for brand success:   Must obtain homogeneous quality over timer to build trust and reputation, should be easily identified, usually backed by an aggressive and expensive promotional campaign  
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Manufacturer brands are also called:   National brands  
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Store brands are also called:   Private labels  
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A highly regulated institution where contracts for future purchases and/or sale of commodities are exchanged   Futures Market  
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A ____ is undifferentiated, standardized, and unbranded.   Commodity  
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Four functions of a futures market:   Pricing, risk-shifting, provision of financing, market information  
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Futures market provides a mechanism by which users (farmers, processors, retailers, elevators) can establish prices for commodities at some point in the future   Pricing  
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Users can transfer the price risk on commodities they are carrying or are needing that they cannot sell or buy until some point in the future   Risk-shifting  
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Futures markets are used to reduce price risk- lenders often require some hedging program before they will lend you money   Provision of financing  
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Futures markets are the largest source of price expectations in existence- and speculators are an important part of the price discovery process   Market Information  
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A ___ can be traded in futures markets   Commodity  
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A commitment to make or take ownership of a specific quantity and quality of a given commodity at a predetermined place and time in the future   Commodity Futures Contract  
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Uncertainty due to volatile price swings   Price Risk  
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A futures contract specifies:   Commodity type; grade or quality; contract size, where delivery/purchase is to be made; date delivery/purchase is to be made  
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A hedge is meant to___.   Protect  
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What does a hedge protect?   The value of cash market inventory  
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Who is a futures hedger?   Someone holding both cash and futures market positions  
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How is futures hedging implemented?   By establishing a futures position that is "equal and opposite" to the current cash market position  
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Why hedge?   To transfer cash price risk to someone else  
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