Category: Agriculture

How should Maple Leaf make the decision? What should the key criteria be to include or exclude an option? Why is each criterion important?

Food and Agricultural Business

How is it different from what is on the market?

Why would people buy it?

What is the market potential?Challenges and Limitations – 25 marks

Acknowledge and describe the difficulties with the different options
Clear Criteria for Making Recommendations – 15 marks

How should Maple Leaf make the decision? What should the key criteria be to include or exclude an option? Why is each criterion important?
Recommendation on Priority – 10 Marks

What is your recommendation to Maple Leaf?

Why are you recommending or not recommending the options?

How do they fit the criteria?

What are the products on offer.Development of environmental schemes that can be added to the farm if any?

Marketing report

What are the products on offer.

How much are they sold for.

How are the products promoted.

What people are involved, Staff and Customers.

The process of buying and selling the product.

Development of environmental schemes that can be added to the farm if any?

Gross Margin of Farm shop- what income can be expected?

Discuss why these interactions may happen due to physical compatibility issues as well as effects in the plant physiology that may have effects on the herbicides working together.

Herbicide- herbicide interactions

Paper must cover the interactions between 2 herbicides Cover 3 topics

Additive control

Antagonistic control

Synergistic control – include information on Colby’s equation

Discuss why these interactions may happen due to physical compatibility issues as well as effects in the plant physiology that may have effects on the herbicides working together.

In 1500 word assignment, focusing on Agricultural Marketing, Agribusiness Marketing or Value Creation in a food, fibre or beverage activity or industry:Discuss?

ASSIGNMENT DETAILS

Topic
One 1500 word assignment, focusing on Agricultural Marketing, Agribusiness Marketing or Value Creation in a food, fibre or beverage activity or industry.
“Use agricultural marketing, business marketing or value chain analysis principles to answer a relevant question relating to the marketing of an agricultural or food product”.

Discussion Task on Price Cycles

What do you understand by the term “price cycles” in relation to agricultural product markets?

Why do such price cycles occur?

What are some of the factors that reduce the amplitude or frequency of these price cycles?

Compare the economic consequences to Australian agricultural industries of the US cattle cycle and the US pig cycle.

Given what you understand to be the benefits of effective grading schemes, why would it pay Coles to offer to consumers (and therefore source, certify, transport, store and distribute) almost 100 different versions of what is really just a basic necessity?

Use agricultural marketing, business marketing or value chain analysis principles to answer a relevant question relating to the marketing of an agricultural or food product”.

Discussion task on grading

If you search for “milk” in the on-line product catalogue at coles.com.au, you get a list of almost 100 different options to purchase.

(a) What are some of the attributes used to differentiate these products?

(b) Are the measures used to discriminate between the different attributes objective or subjective?

(c) Given what you understand to be the benefits of effective grading schemes, why would it pay Coles to offer to consumers (and therefore source, certify, transport, store and distribute) almost 100 different versions of what is really just a basic necessity?