0 the various businesses that are connected with producing, preparing, and selling farm products
1 the different types of businesses that are involved in farming, such as growing crops, supplying seeds, manufacturing farm equipment, and marketing farm products:
Over half the nation’s land area is devoted to farming and approximately 16% of total employment is in agribusiness.
2 farming using modern equipment and methods, considered an important industry:
The term “agribusiness” is sometimes used negatively by critics of large-scale, industrialized food production.
Despite denials by many scientists and large agribusinesses, there seems reason to be cautious.
This suggests that organic crop farmers in our sample have a greater interest in departing from the conventional agribusiness-dominated input and marketing system.
Capital intensive technologies required to realize these gains can favor agribusiness over family farms5.
Recent examples of the organic movement's resistance against genetically engineered food29 point to a still critical position to the established agribusiness and food supply systems.
Market segmentation and consumer profiling strategies have been used in agribusiness management analysis to understand consumer response to a number of issues.
The corporate agribusiness model typically replaces indigenous, less productive strains of plants and animals with those that are more productive, but which require high inputs.
To those who see organic agriculture as an idealized alternative, it is ironic and contradictory when large agribusinesses venture into organic production1,8.
There are numerous technical professionals in every state who are employed through federal, state and county agencies, agribusinesses, agricultural lending institutions and churches.
