Types of Agribusiness

The sale of goods in large quantities for resale by another business or company.

(a)  

• Wholesale
• Manufacturing
• Processors
• Retailers

Sale of goods from a business to a consumer.

(a)  

• Retail
• Manufacturing
• Wholesale
• Business

Natural resources subjected to a special process or treatment to prepare it for use by consumers or manufacturers (a)  

• processed goods
• value-added goods
• raw goods
• intangible goods

Materials derived from natural resources

• processed goods

• value-added goods

• intangible goods

• raw goods

Develop products for distribution from raw goods, such as forestry, farming & mining

(a)  

• Producers
• Processors
• Intermediaries
• Service Firms

Change raw goods into a more finished form using facilities such as cotton mils, oil refineries, textile mills

• Processors

• Producers

• Manufacturers

• Intermediaries

Change raw or processed goods using facilities such as boot factories, furniture factories, cotton processing and citrus fruit processing

• Producers

• Processors

• Manufacturers

• Intermediaries

Move finished goods from one business to another, also known as the "middlemen"

• Processors

• Manufacturers

• Producers

• Intermediaries

Provide intangible goods to consumers and other businesses

• Intermediaries

• Service firms

• Intangible good

• Agricultural Co-op

Organization in which agriculturalists bring together their resources in a specific area of activity

• Non-Profit Organizations

• Service Firms

• Agricultural Co-ops

• Ag businesses