All Businesses has opportunities and threats that can either make or break them. Perdue farms can use these opportunities and threats as resources to become a competitive advantage. Economic, competitive, legal, political, social, cultural, environmental, technological and demographic is all the factors related to opportunities and threats that will affect an industry external atmosphere. If Perdue farm learns to use their opportunities and eliminate their threats then they will achieve success. Technologically Advance Technology has been a major asset to the success of many companies in all markets. Without technology companies cannot operate as well. Perdue has to have the right machinery to produce their oil and oilseed. Their Agribusiness operates four oilseed processing location in Eastern part of United States. (Our Company: Perdue Farms
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Rumors are saying that a bird’s flu outbreak has occurred which causes poultry farmer to take extra precautions. Poultry farmers are going to hesitate when buying chicken because they don’t want any sick chickens. Poultry industry such as Perdue has to make sure the disease does not spread towards them. They want to remove all birds from their poultry houses. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has confirmed cases of highly pathogenic avian flu in 21 states since December. Fifteen states had outbreaks in poultry and six in wild birds only. These disease spreads through the animal’s saliva, feces and nasal secretions. This economic hazard can be devastating for farms, but the disease is low risk to human health. The outbreak in the Midwest has heightened prices for eggs and roasting turkeys, but is pushing chicken prices down because other countries are restricting any poultry imports from the United States. (Knezevich,
Rumors are saying that a bird’s flu outbreak has occurred which causes poultry farmer to take extra precautions. Poultry farmers are going to hesitate when buying chicken because they don’t want any sick chickens. Poultry industry such as Perdue has to make sure the disease does not spread towards them. They want to remove all birds from their poultry houses. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has confirmed cases of highly pathogenic avian flu in 21 states since December. Fifteen states had outbreaks in poultry and six in wild birds only. These disease spreads through the animal’s saliva, feces and nasal secretions. This economic hazard can be devastating for farms, but the disease is low risk to human health. The outbreak in the Midwest has heightened prices for eggs and roasting turkeys, but is pushing chicken prices down because other countries are restricting any poultry imports from the United States. (Knezevich,