CAn someone Explain Periphery agriculture and core agriculture?

Question

thanks so much!

Answer 1

I believe what you are asking is of the concept of agricultural beginnings falling to a very few extremely old civilizations when the human species finally turned from a primitive hunter/ gatherer society. This is "core agriculture". When those ideas went with migrating people out of the new city centers to the periphery, the new areas and new crops found and fresh ideas transformed the core ideas; the people adapted the knowledge they had and learned. Agriculture and it's adaptations in the periphery would migrate back to the core to be incorporated as we grew. As those outer areas and ideas began to overlap and they where shared, ideas and concepts changed (still) to what we know today.

Answer 2

Definitions vary, but I have read some that classify farms as Core, Peripheral, and Marginal. I guess if you need just the two classifications, you could split the Marginal farms down the middle, with half going to each side.

Core farms are  those with reported annual sales of

$40,000 or more. Peripheral farms are those with sales of

less than $10,000 annually. This leaves us with a group of

farms with reported sales between $10,000 and $39,999,  these farms are classified as Marginal farms.

Peripheral farms are about one-third the size Marginal farms.

Marginal farms are about one-third the size of Core farms.