Antitrust
These two agriculture specific antitrust laws passed in in 1921 and 1922
Packers and Stockyards act
Capper-Volstead act
When the government gives money to a farmer for various reasons
What is a subsidy
The second component of the sugar program, involving setting a limit on imported sugar.
What is a tariff rate quota (TRQ)
An aquifer hudson can't seem to pronounce.
What is ogallala
Name 2 large U.S. trade partners
What is Mexico, EU, UK, Canada, China
A process in which meatpackers control every stage of production
What is vertical integration (VI)
This crop is the highest subsidized, receiving around 30% of all crop subsidies, while being our second highest export.
What is corn
What is buy back
The government pays farmers to plant/not plant crops in their land
TRICK QUESTION. What is both
This country is buying our soybeans and our farmland
What is China?
A system in which poultry farmers are graded on efficiency in raising chickens and raised or docked pay based on that information.
What is the poultry tournament system
We subsidize this crop the second most in the U.S., and we export more of it than any other crop.
What are soybeans
The sugar program increases sugar prices by _%
What is 100%
Unlicensed ______'s are causing harm to the environment due to nitrate runoff.
What is a CAFO (concentrated animal feeding operation)
This tool in rare cases can prevent hunger based conflicts.
What is exports/food aid
Name 2 of the "big 4" meatpackers
What are JBS, Cargill, Tyson Foods, and National Beef
_______ ended crop subsidies in 1984 and increased farm production by 40%.
What is New Zealand
Large sugar companies engage in _____ to congress members to avoid the sugar program being removed.
What is lobbying
Recent supreme court rulings say pesticide companies do not have to disclose if their pesticide is a ____.
What is carcinogen
The total amount of US agricultural foreign aid last year.
What is 1.71 million
__._% of broiler chickens are contract farmers (get chickens from meatpackers) half credit for non decimal answers
What is 99.5% (good job)
The PLC and ARC programs specifically cover _______ and ________.
What is low market price and low revenue
__% of the sugar market is reserved for domestic producers.
What is 85%
An insecticide, fungicide, or herbicide is a kind of _____.
What is pesticide?
Largest agricultural exporter globally
What is the United States