5 Steps to a 5 by Carol Ann Gillespie

Author:Carol Ann Gillespie
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Published: 2017-11-20T05:00:00+00:00

In the United States, truck farming, or commercial gardening and fruit farming, is the predominant agricultural activity in the Southeast. Most of the fruits and vegetables grown are sold to large processing companies, but some are also sold to individual consumers. Migrant farm workers and large-scale automation and mechanization maximize profits while keeping costs at a minimum. In New England, specialty farming provides upscale customers with fresh produce.

Access to markets is a huge problem for farmers all over the world. Von Thünen’s model, as shown in Fig. 10.4 below, helps explain the relationship between the cost of land and the cost to transport the crop to market. The closer the land is to the city, the more expensive it is, and the farther away, the cheaper it is. Von Thünen was a German farmer who wrote The Isolated State in 1826 in an attempt to resolve a farmer’s dilemma—how to balance the cost of land with the best crop to produce. The costs of transporting different farm products to the central market determined the agricultural land use around a city. The most productive activities will locate closest to the market on more expensive land, and less productive activities will locate further away on cheaper land.

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