Question

How did advances in transportation increase profits for farmers? Question 5 options: by decreasing the prices farmers could charge by increasing competition among farmers by increasing costs of needed supplies by lowering the cost to ship crops to market

Answer 1

Advances in transportation increased profits for farmers because they lowered the cost to ship crops to market. Before such advances, taking crops to market used to be very expensive, but a cheaper way of making food reach the final consumer allowed the farmers keep a wider difference in their favor.