Worksheet: Exploring the Cut Flower Industry

Author: Sarah Pounders

This worksheet accompanies the lesson, Return to Where Did that Bouquet Come From?

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Download the USDA Floriculture and Nursery Crops Outlook for 2006, and print pages 13 - 17, to answer the following questions:

1. What is the forecasted value of sales for cut flowers in 2006 (Summary 1, p.13)?

2. What was the value of sales of cut flowers in 1997 (Summary 1, p.13)? Is this number larger or smaller than the value in 2006? What is the difference between the two? What is the percentage of change?

3. In 2006, cut flowers sales are forecasted to be what percentage of total floriculture crop sales (Summary 1, p.13)?

4. What crop is the largest component of floriculture sales (Summary 1, p.13.)?

5. What area of the country (Northeast, Midwest, South or West) has the highest value of sales for cut flowers (Summary 1, p.13)?

6. What area of the country (Northeast, Midwest, South or West) has the lowest value of sales for cut flowers (Summary 1, p.13)?

7. In 2006, what is the forecasted value of sales of all cut flowers grown in the United States (Summary 3, p. 15)?

8. What are the 3 individual flowers grown in the United States with the highest sales (Summary 3, p. 15)?

9. In 2006, what is the forecasted value of all cut flowers grown in other countries and imported into the United States (Summary 4, p. 16)?

10. For 2006, what is the total forecasted value of sales of all cut flowers sold in the United States (those grown in the United States and those grown in other countries)?

11. From #10, flowers grown in the United States make up what percentage of the sales?

12. From #10, flowers imported into the United States make up what percentage of sales value?

 

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