Which of the following most accurately represents the relationship between externalities and agricultural economics?
externalities, like ecological services, are considered to be “free” and of no economic concern to the grower
externalities are a net positive to communities due to the extra employment that results from the need to remediate them
there is increasing pressure on growers to reduce their production costs by using methods that increase externalities
there is increasing pressure to include the cost of externalities in evaluations of the economy of agriculture
