Report E Consumer Concerns & Alternatives 1. Consumer, health, and social concerns: Construct an annotated list of consumer, health, and social concerns about your crop. Instructions: (i) Google “consumer concerns your_crop_name” , “health concerns your_crop_name”, “social concerns your_crop_name”, or a related search; (ii) Grouping similar “hits” together, construct a list of different concerns – for … Continue reading Consumer Concerns & Alternatives →

Report D Policies & Company Profile 1. Farm policy: Is your crop or food identified in the 2018 Farm Bill? If so, describe the policy context of all mentions? Instructions: Go to this URL, https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20181210/CRPT-115hrpt1072.pdf (Links to an external site.), and search the Farm Bill for “your_crop_name.”. If it appears, provide a detailed summary of … Continue reading Policies & Company Profile →

Report C How Labor or Technology Intensive? 1. Is there a Penn State Extension guide for tomatoes? (Hint: try Googling “penn state extension your_crop_name”.) If so, provide a link to the extension document and then summarize, in general terms, the growing methods (or production methods) for your crop. (If there’s not a link, please find … Continue reading Production: How Intensive? →

Report B Produced Where and Why? 1. Using U.N. FAOSTAT data (link: http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data), create a bar chart showing national production for your crop by the ten largest producing countries. Then describe the bar chart’s “message” in a sentence or two. Comments: (a) Once at the FAOSTAT site, click on “Crops” under the production heading, and … Continue reading Production: Where? →

Report A Choice and Intro Image source: USDA 1. How prevalent is your crop in the U.S. diet? Explain. Sweet potatoes, scientific name Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam, are considered one of the most important food crops in the world (Islam, link). Though it shares the word “potato” in its name, sweet potatoes only had 3 … Continue reading Sweet Potatoes: Introduction →