The marketing of agricultural commodities in the United States is done by a private enterprise system. It involves millions of individual decisions (to grow, to buy, to sell, to store, to ship) on the part of farmers, marketing men, and consumers. Agricultural marketing is a huge national and international operation. The marketing system is intricate. It is sensitive to many economic and international developments, which include strikes, weather, political upheavals and related factors that affect marketing activities. The marketing of agricultural commodities is undergoing dynamic changes. As our country has become an increasingly.
