Environment

PLZ PLZ!!!! HURRY!!!!

Contamination from runoff of fertilizers,
fungicide,
pesticides,
cattle waste (huge problem),
fossil fuel waste (another huge one),
warmer temps are causing proliferation of dangerous water born organism that cause diseases in humans and animals, improper disposal of lead and other heavy metals…. and the list goes on.

You mean as a detriment? Very little, really. Just placing them

Hello fellow farmers. I’m doing a group research project on an agricultural company that consists of designing a strategic management plan for the company. I’m using two environmental tools to analyze the external environment of the company, which is the agricultural industry.

What are the political, environmental, sociocultural, and technological forces that effect the agricultural industry?

What are the substitutes, threats of entry, buyers, suppliers, and rivalry amongst competitors in the agricultural industry?
The company sells spreaders and sprayers.

First the company sells spreaders and sprayers leaves a question , spreaders of what? Chemicals? manure? It makes a difference.

The external environment then is not the agricultural industry so much as the agricultural services and supplies industry and the financial industry that surrounds agriculture.

Your competitors are not primarily coming from the agricultural industry but the services and supplies industry. If for instance some competitor locks up sprayers for all Monsanto products to be used only in their sprayers, your sprayers will be out of the market. If Cargil provides all its customers a ‘free’ service of a competing fertilizer spreader, your sales of fertilizer spreaders is shot. This is not hard to imagine happening. We already see widespread use of ‘free spreader’ or tied selling of spray components to free equipment loans.

This means that ease of entry into competition can be ridiculously low to impossible .

We have deals made that change who becomes the buyer of these products, tying buyers to brands of machines over prolonged periods, And making those buyers the sole suppliers of the service within a market.

These shifts can be brought about most readily if a competitor produces a product that presents a new standard, more precise distribution for example, (new technology) that allows them to claim environmental improvement, gets a political endorsement, even legislation, that forces our competitors unable to match the new standard, and they have a patent that makes it impossible.

The market can shift as licensed operators are recruited as agents of a competitor, and decline to work with your product.

Because of scale in production, your competitor my be more likely to produce products that have substantial advantages compared to your companies, even leap-frogging on your patent protections.

The big risk here is to spend large amounts of money in producing a product that may quickly become obsolete without protecting against technical innovation and innovation in business plan.

What lessons can we learn from this tremendous success?

By realizing that it was nothing but the inane rantings and Chicken Little babblings of left wing kooks.

Lessons?

Perhaps we need to revive our capacity to realize……

The belief that Armageddon is imminent is the sole prerogative of Jehovah’s Witnesses. And they’ve been saying Armageddon is imminent for over a hundred years. So sad.

With regard to bad environmental policies, that’s down to power-grabbing, materialistic corporations and politicians who think more of their status, egos, dividends and bonuses than they do of their fellow humans.

Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind. There will be a day of reckoning. In the meantime, I’m heading north and up into the hills!

Can you list them to me. It would really help. I really need help. Can you list them like:
1. Dont spit on the ground…

To prevent environmental pollution you should:
1. ride your bike or walk to close destinations instead of using cars.
2. ask the government to add more trash cans and recycle bins where litter is constantly increasing.
3. Carpool with a friend
4. Plant more trees *Buy a baby tree and plant it in your neighborhood or park with your friend*
5. Try to avoid using plastic silverware

You mean the Canada arm on the ISS? What are you asking?

thanks for the response but i found out the answer is 43%

I would say all of them do. There is some type of policy set in any business and to make it to the top you have to have something for everything. But it is normally just to keep within the law only. But it is there.

So I would say 100% have one.

I am graduating in May with my BA in geology, and I have seen some jobs on monster and other sites for environmental consulting, which is what I would like to do, and I don’t know when would be a good time to apply for these jobs. Would now be too early to do so if I’m not available until June?

No, it’s not too soon! Jobs are always looking for bright new graduates because you are fresh & trainable so they can teach you how they like to do things. They do look for people with initiative- who are looking to plan their future and set up a job. When I was a senior in college (2 years ago) I applied for jobs and went on interviews in January. I got an offer letter and accepted it in January and did not start the job until August. If you go applying in August they will look at you and say why on earth did you wait so long? So yes, apply now!

Here’s another tip that landed my interviews- do not apply directly through Monster.com- use the contact information given and send an email from your personal email account directly to the person. Say you are graduating soon and would like to set up an interview to discuss possible opportunities and attach your resume. If monster doesnt give a contact- look up the company website and get a contact off there. 9 times out of 10 i got a call when i did this and not when applying right through the website because it gets lost in everybody elses. Good luck!

this is an essay question and i have problems with what the question is asking…

Reverse the question, and give examples of how implemented wrong solutions have worsened the problems and deepened the expense, to set meaningful progress back.