1. Overview of the industry The food processing or food manufacturing industry includes companies

the food during the process and once they get into the food and transported to another country it

This article written in the Texas Agriculture, a magazine published by the Texas Farm Bureau, is about all the factors impacting farmers that effect their income. Over the past couple years, a combination of things has caused the average Texas farmers income to drop. The primary audience for this article is the farmers in Texas as they are experiencing these issues first hand. The secondary audience would be consumers who have noticed price fluctuations in products at the store and are wondering the reason.

Like much of the midwest, Indiana is especially dependent on agricultural success to boost their economy. Farming is the backbone of the Hoosier state, with 57,500 farming operations functioning in 2016, per the United States Department of Agriculture. While Indiana relies heavily on the agricultural sector of their economy, the agricultural sector in turn often relies upon subsidization. According to “Food Policy: Looking Forward from the Past”, a book written by Arlene Spark and Janel Obenchain, “An agricultural subsidy is governmental assistance paid to farmers and agribusiness to supplement their income, manage the supply of agricultural commodities, and influence the cost and supply of such commodities.” Now that we accurately

The agricultural industry: the farms, plants, animals, and farmers, have supported this great country for so long, but lately we have turned our backs on it. Today, we live in a materialistic society, people wanting more and better items, not settling for products that will accomplish the same job.From looking at the fruits and vegetables in the grocery store, we see the bruised or smaller ones left, while the big and brightly colored ones are selected first. In our society today, changes are constantly being made to help expand and evolve the agricultural industry, but it has yet been able to do so. To this day farmers across this nation have not been completely successful in providing for the people who make up this country. In the stores

Becoming a larger more efficient company with a strengthening competitive position opens up the opportunity for more mergers and acquisitions of competitors, suppliers and/or customers.

Companies are growing by bringing in new stores to new locations rather than come up with innovation in the terms of bringing the products to the consumer. As written in business insights, the industry is recession proof but personally we believe that the companies’ sales are

The agriculture industry in the United States is full of uncertainty. John F. Kennedy gave an unique perspective of the farmer when he spoke in 1960 while running for the presidency, “For the farmer, is the only man in our economy who has to buy everything he buys at retail - sell everything he sells at wholesale - and pay the freight both ways” (Peters & Woolley, n.d., para. 33). In agriculture, commodity prices are affected by external forces such as weather patterns, national and international economic conditions, national and international demand, and the value of the dollar. The impact of the value of the dollar on the agricultural industry is wide spread and potentially detrimental. In the 1980s, the United States was devastated by a farm crisis that rocked the Midwest. The strong U.S. dollar was a key player in the crisis that bankrupted many farmers (Fite, 1992). Alternatively, a weak dollar positively impacts the agricultural industry by increasing exports and improving the competitive advantage of the farmers.

For example, packaging materials such as glass, paper and board, plastics and metals help protect the food item from UV rays/ light during the transportation process. By allowing this, helps prevent the growth of micro- organisms within the product. As well as this, packaging helps prevent rancidity in fats. If rancidity is not prevented, unpleasant odours and flavours within the food item are present, resulting in the wastage of the good. Along within this, packaging helps prevent the cross contamination of goods, when being transported from one area to another. Therefore, the Agriculture and Fisheries sector benefit from packaging, as they are able to prevent the wastage of products being transported, as well as being able to uphold a high reputation of the business by marketing high-quality goods.

The food business is a broad range of businesses. Food is a basic need of consumers like clothing, and shelter. For a company to enter into the food business it has to assess the various segments of this business. These ranges from production of food, processing, and marketing. The company prior to entering a market in this line of business should assess its capabilities and compare these to the kind of needs of the consumers – would the customer be a processor, or a consumer?Is the product that the company can offer a raw material, processed food, or to serve a group of consumers who would like to eat and yet also need some little pleasure and not merely to satisfy their hunger?

My friends, I would to take a few minutes to discuss agriculture in this great nation. It has been 14 years since we have heard the cannons boom from Great War, and since then economic stability of our nation has no doubt stumbled on distress. For all the farmers listening, I speak for the people of the United States when I say thank you greatly for the enormous contributions you made to the war effort. You produced a record amount of crops and livestock, all of which aided the men fighting in Europe and the people at home. While the end of the war marked the beginning of a new era, life on the farm began to deteriorate. During the 20s we saw farm and crop prices drop so low. We saw farmers overproducing to pay for their lifestyle and

A university of Missouri economic impact study of Premium Standard Farms and Farmland Foods shows combined value to the state of $1.1 billion annually. The two businesses were significant contributors to the economic vitality of the state. PSF is an integrated

When companies combine/merge the whole objective is to gain new opportunities, gain market share, grow the business, to become more innovative and to improve product offerings, utilizing/sharing the existing resources and data. From the case

The Agriculture sector has changed monumentally over the past century in response to vast economic change and technological advancements. Farm subsidies are various forms of payments from the federal government put in place in an effort to stabilize prices, keep farmers in business, and ensure quality of crops. The federal government currently pays $20 billion in cash each year to US farmers and spent an estimated $250 billion between 1995-2005. Presently, a new farm bill is passed every five years

One major objective of mergers is to be able to reduce or fully eliminate the weaknesses that may exit in

Buyers are increasingly price-sensitive and value conscious and are more likely to make purchasing decisions based upon perceived price\value.