PrepTest 139, Section 3, Question 3
The prevailing trend in agriculture toward massive and(426 more words not shown)
According to the passage, "pick-your-own"(20 more words not shown)
- ACustomers are given(10 more words not shown)
- BIt guarantees a(7 more words not shown)
- CIt allows farmers(12 more words not shown)
- DOnly those varieties(18 more words not shown)
- EConsumers who are(17 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Why is customer harvesting crucial? The explanation gives us the cost connection: harvesting is about 50 percent of production costs. When customers pick their own produce, the farm avoids that expense and can charge less than supermarkets while still earning a profit.
What we’re looking for
Keep that specific reason separate from the other benefits of the CMC. Advance payments, requested crops, and customer harvesting solve different problems.
Working the answers
- A
Learning where food comes from might appeal to some customers, but that educational benefit isn't the stated reason pick-your-own farming is necessary for profitability.
- B
The proposal seeks year-round cash flow, but having customers pick crops doesn't itself guarantee money throughout the year. This confuses an overall objective with the particular cost-saving function of harvesting.
- CCorrect
Customer harvesting makes it possible to undercut supermarket prices and still profit. The 50-percent harvesting cost explains how selling for 60 percent of the supermarket price could work: the farm also has much lower expenses.
- D
Growing only requested crops is a real recommendation, but it comes from planning production around customers' requests. Customers' doing the picking doesn't determine which crops were planted in the first place.
- E
People willing to travel may be promising customers. That doesn't explain why they need to harvest their own food once they arrive. The stated reason concerns the farm's costs.
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