Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/675/en

The agricultural product becomes, directly or through processing, a product, a commodity, which has a nutritive or use-value determined by the conditions of its production. Price must be measured against this value. In economic life generally, this measurement cannot be determined by the individual, the seller, the entrepreneur, but only through the balancing of all the contributions that all the others in the economic cycle have rendered, from the production of the product through to its consumption. This wide web of relationships, out of which the value-creation of a product emerges, must be grasped as a whole in thought — and at the same time the attempt must be made, through shaping thinking, to bring price closer to objective value. With regard to the formation of value and price, agriculture has the particular feature of the site-specific "gift of nature." As the human being brings his gifts productively into economic life, so nature brings its productive power — its gift — with respect to climate, soil, topography and so forth. A steep south-facing slope in warm regions, for example, is unsuitable for grain cultivation, but entirely suited to viticulture; a deep, level loess soil of the fertile lowlands is, for the same expenditure of labour, incomparably more productive than a shallow, stone-rich soil on a hillside or in hilly terrain.