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Complete Question Explanation
(See the complete passage discussion here: lsat/viewtopic.php?t=13775)
The correct answer choice is (D)
This Concept Reference question asks us to identify an element of Whatley’s plan that helps guarantee that small farms have buyers for all of their produce. If you notated the three main recommendations in the second paragraph, you should have no trouble proving the correct answer choice.
Answer choice (A): This Shell Game answer represents a common psychometric trick. The need to grow at least ten different crops appeared in the correct answer choice to the previous question, and is indeed one of the recommendations mentioned in the second paragraph. However, grouping multiple crops is not meant to help small famers secure buyers for all their produce (this would be somewhat counterintuitive). Instead, it aims to soften the financial blow should one crop fail completely (lines 16-17). This answer choice is incorrect.
Answer choice (B): This is another Shell Game answer. “Pick-your-own” farming enables farmers to charge 60 percent of what supermarkets charge for the same produce, but there is no evidence that undercutting supermarkets will in turn guarantee buyers for all crops.
Answer choice (C): CMCs are clearly geared towards clients who value fresh produce, but there is no evidence that only such clients will ever be recruited. Furthermore, the mere preference for fresh produce is unlikely to guarantee buyers for all of crops grown on the farm.
Answer choice (D): This is the correct answer choice. To guarantee a market for all their crops, Whatley encourages farmers to grow only crops that clients ask for, and also to comply with their wishes regarding chemical use (lines 21-25).
Answer choice (E): While irrigating crops is mentioned in the last paragraph, this is not a strategy that aims to guarantee buyers. Avoid picking an answer choice simply because you recall reading it in the passage, unless you can prove that it answers the specific question at hand.
(See the complete passage discussion here: lsat/viewtopic.php?t=13775)
The correct answer choice is (D)
This Concept Reference question asks us to identify an element of Whatley’s plan that helps guarantee that small farms have buyers for all of their produce. If you notated the three main recommendations in the second paragraph, you should have no trouble proving the correct answer choice.
Answer choice (A): This Shell Game answer represents a common psychometric trick. The need to grow at least ten different crops appeared in the correct answer choice to the previous question, and is indeed one of the recommendations mentioned in the second paragraph. However, grouping multiple crops is not meant to help small famers secure buyers for all their produce (this would be somewhat counterintuitive). Instead, it aims to soften the financial blow should one crop fail completely (lines 16-17). This answer choice is incorrect.
Answer choice (B): This is another Shell Game answer. “Pick-your-own” farming enables farmers to charge 60 percent of what supermarkets charge for the same produce, but there is no evidence that undercutting supermarkets will in turn guarantee buyers for all crops.
Answer choice (C): CMCs are clearly geared towards clients who value fresh produce, but there is no evidence that only such clients will ever be recruited. Furthermore, the mere preference for fresh produce is unlikely to guarantee buyers for all of crops grown on the farm.
Answer choice (D): This is the correct answer choice. To guarantee a market for all their crops, Whatley encourages farmers to grow only crops that clients ask for, and also to comply with their wishes regarding chemical use (lines 21-25).
Answer choice (E): While irrigating crops is mentioned in the last paragraph, this is not a strategy that aims to guarantee buyers. Avoid picking an answer choice simply because you recall reading it in the passage, unless you can prove that it answers the specific question at hand.