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Ag Marketing
Ag Econ 2183 at University of Missouri with Dr. Parcell
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Agriculture
Undergraduate 2
10/04/2011

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Agribusiness
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any firm involved in the marketing of agricultural products or supplying farm inputs
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Behavioral Systems Approach
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A study of marketing that focuses on the interdependence and coordination of all key participants and their marketing activities. Markets and prices play key coordinating roles in the marketing systems.
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Consumer Sovereignty
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the concept that each consumer decides independently what to buy and that the collection of all these individual decisions directs all production and marketing activities in the economy.
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Fallacy of Composition
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the error of assuming that what holds true for one member of a group will necessarily hold true for the entire group
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Functional Approach
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a study of marketing organized around a classification of activities such as buying, selling, storing, transporting, processing, standardizing, financing, information gathering and risk bearing
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Institutional Approach
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a study of marketing featuring the key institutional players, such as processors, retailers, and key marketing institutions (established practices), such as cooperatives, futures markets and marketing orders
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Micro Marketing
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the performance of business activities that direct the forward flow of goods and services to customers and accomplish the farmer's or the agribusiness firm's objectives
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Macro Marketing
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the performance of all business activities involved in the forward flow of goods and services from producers to consumers
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Marketing Channel
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the set of firms that move a commodity from the farm to the consumer
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Micro Procurement
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the performance of business activities that direct the flow of agricultural commodities to a firm to satisfy its objectives
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Industry
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a set of competing firms producing similar products or a commodity; it is the seller side of a market.
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Law of Demand
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an observation that buyers typically will buy more at lower prices than at higher prices, other factors held constant
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Law of Supply
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an observation that sellers will ordinarily offer more at higher prices than at lower prices other thing held constant.
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Market
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all the possible buyers and sellers of a product or commodity
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Monopolistic Competition
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a market of many firms with each competing to sell a product or service slightly differentiated from the others. No competitor is large enough to dominated the others, so monopolistic competition is more competition than monopoly.
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Oligopoly
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a market of only a few firms of fairly similar size; each firm considers the possible reaction of each of its rivals in making pricing and other strategic decisions; entry is usually difficult; product differentiation often exists
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Perfect Competition
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a market of many competing firms selling a commodity; each firm is too small for its decisions alone to influence perceptibly the market price
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Price Maker
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a firm that sets price or negotiates it with those on the other side of the market. (firms in monopolistic and oligopolistic competition)
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Price Taker
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a market participant that buys or sells such a small part of the market's total that it accepts price as a given (firms in competitive markets)
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Product Differentiation
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a characteristic of a market in which buyers perceive significant differences among the products or services offered by various sellers. Product differentiation always exists in monopolistic competition and usually in oligopoly.
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Margin Maker
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those commodity handlers that have little or no power to set their sales prices may focus on maintaining a margin, or specific differential, between sales prices and purchase prices
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Biological lags
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Business logistics
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Commodity
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Commodity handling
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Concentration ratio
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Conglomerate
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Convenience yield
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Economies of size
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Expected prices
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Inelastic
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Margin maker
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Marketing intelligence
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Perishability
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Product marketing
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Realized prices
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Risk bearing
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Standardization
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