How did advances in transportation increase profits for farmers? Question 5 options: by decreasing the prices farmers could charge by increasing competition among farmers by increasing costs of needed supplies by lowering the cost to ship crops to market

Advances in transportation increased profits for farmers because they lowered the cost to ship crops to market. Before such advances, taking crops to market used to be very expensive, but a cheaper way of making food reach the final consumer allowed the farmers keep a wider difference in their favor.