Date post: | 06-Jan-2018 |
Category: |
Documents |
Upload: | catherine-bryan |
View: | 213 times |
Download: | 0 times |
Von Thunen’s Model of Agricultural Land Use
• Be able to draw and explain his model by the end of the PPT :-)
• Discuss the flaws in the model
Intensive Commercial Ag• Large amounts of capital and/or
labor per unit of land
• High yields and market value per unit of land
• Relatively small fields
• High transport costs/perishability
• Fruits, vegetables & dairy products
Extensive Commercial Ag• Cheaper land = larger land
units
• Inputs (capital and labor) per unit of land are low
• Low perishability
• Wheat farms, cattle ranching
Questions to considerfor Von Thunen’s Model
• Value of land• Distance from market• Cost of transportation• Intensive or Extensive
• Remember, the bottom line is what crop will make the farmer a profit at a given location
Problems with the model?
Directions for Image Analysis
• Determine if the agricultural activity is intensive or extensive
• Draw a simple version of von Thunen’s model and located the activity on it.
• Be prepared to defend your responses!
Extensive or Intensive?Where would Von Thunen locate this ag. activity?
1
Extensive or Intensive?Where would Von Thunen locate this ag activity?
2
Extensive or Intensive?Where would Von Thunen locate this ag.
Activity?
3
Extensive or Intensive?Where would Von Thunen locate this ag.
Activity?
4
Extensive or Intensive?Where would Von Thunen locate this ag.
Activity?
5
Extensive or Intensive?Where would Von Thunen locate this ag.
Activity?
6
Summary
• Basic premises of the model • Flaws of the model