文档介绍：AGSC 260
Agricultural Markets and Products
Spring Semester, 2007; 3 credit hours
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 2:30-3:20 ., MG2078
Dr. Michael Seipel Office Hours:
Magruder Hall 3082; 785-4316 Office hours and schedule available at
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Course Overview
An introductory course examining the production, handling, and marketing of agricultural
products. Investigates changing patterns of food consumption and analyzes the causes and
consequences of the changes. Focus is placed on understanding the market structures
ordering the flow of food and fiber goods from the producer to the consumer and the
economic principles underlying these structures.
Prerequisites: None
Objectives
1. To develop students’ understanding of the structure of the food and fiber system—its
production and handling stages, pricing system, petitive environment;
2. To enable students to critically analyze changes in the food and fiber system, their
causes, and their consequences for farmers, consumers, processors, and marketers;
3. To illustrate how economic principles can be used to better understand producer and
consumer decision-making and resource allocation within the farm-food-fiber system;
4. To build the student’munication, problem-solving, and team-working abi