agribusiness

Examples of agribusiness in the following topics:

• Farming As Big Business

  • In fact, American agriculture increasingly has become an "agribusiness," a term created to reflect the big, corporate nature of many farm enterprises in the modern U.S. economy.
  • Agribusiness includes a variety of farm businesses and structures, from small, one-family corporations to huge conglomerates or multinational firms that own large tracts of land or that produce goods and materials used by farmers.
  • The advent of agribusiness in the late 20th century has meant fewer but much larger farms.

• Agricultural Interest Groups

  • For example, a policy that is beneficial to large scale agribusiness might be highly damaging for small, family farms.
  • Agricultural interest groups range from large agribusiness, to groups such as the Farm Bureau representing mid-sized and commodity crop farmers, to the Farmers Market Coalition which advocates for policies that would benefit local farm production.

• Cross-Functional and Self-Managed Teams

  • The Morning Star Company, a privately held food processing and agribusiness company, is a fully self-managed company, having no formal hierarchy, and allowing colleagues within the company to commit to their own activities, organize their own work, and coordinate their own working relationships with other colleagues.
  • The Morning Star Company, a privately held food processing and agribusiness company, is a fully self-managed company, having no formal hierarchy, and allowing colleagues within the company to commit to their own activities, organize their own work, and coordinate their own working relationships with other colleagues.

• Boycotts

  • Because farm laborers in the United States are not covered by the Wagner Act, the United Farm Workers' (UFW) union has been able to legally use secondary boycotting of grocery store chains as an aid to their strikes against California agribusinesses and to their primary boycotts of California grapes, lettuce, and wine.
  • Because farm laborers in the United States are not covered by the Wagner Act, the United Farm Workers' (UFW) union has been able to legally use secondary boycotting of grocery store chains as an aid to their strikes against California agribusinesses and to their primary boycotts of California grapes, lettuce, and wine.

• Marketing Information Systems

  • Marketing intelligence is the province of entrepreneurs and senior managers within an agribusiness.

• Habitat Loss and Sustainability

  • Added to this are the resource-hungry activities of industrial agribusiness: everything from crops' need for irrigation water, synthetic fertilizers, and pesticides, to the resource costs of food packaging, transport (now a major part of global trade), and retail.
  • Similarly, environmental problems associated with industrial agriculture and agribusiness are now being addressed through such movements as sustainable agriculture, organic farming, and more-sustainable business practices.

• The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

  • Mexican farmers have seen food prices fall due to cheap imports from US agribusiness, while US workers in manufacturing and assembly industries have lost jobs.

• The American Rally

  • Although, at first, the Department of Agriculture objected to Eleanor Roosevelt's institution of a victory garden on the White House grounds, fearing that such a movement would hurt the food industry, basic information about gardening appeared in public services booklets distributed by the Department of Agriculture, and by agribusiness corporations such as International Harvester and Beech-Nut.

• Patterns of Organization: Informative, Persuasive, and Commemorative

  • The FDA should scrap its useless "voluntary guidelines" for agribusiness and impose legally-binding restrictions on the practice of feeding antibiotics to healthy animals.

• Mobilizing a Nation

  • Although government officials initially feared this movement would hurt the food industry, basic information about gardening appeared in public services booklets distributed by the Department of Agriculture and agribusiness corporations such as International Harvester and Beech-Nut.