Farm Business Management
The Fundamentals of Good Practice

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Language: English
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384 p. · Hardback
Farming is a complex job with many unique challenges, but can also be a rich and rewarding career that is full of opportunities. Following the author's Farm Business Management series, this new textbook takes the core principles and techniques and distils them into an accessible student resource. This book:

covers the most important aspects of farm management, such as observation, decision making, budgeting, risk assessment and record keeping;
is organized into easy-to-navigate sections such as the farmer's environment, financials, key skills and farm systems; and
includes student-focused pedagogy throughout, comprising learning objectives, focus study exercises and review questions.

Written by an expert with decades of teaching and research experience around the world, this book also incorporates two brand new chapters on farm accounting and computer systems and software. Providing a hands-on learning experience for students of agriculture, it will continue to be a much-used resource throughout their farming career.
  • Part 1: The Farmer’s Environment
  • 1: Introduction
  • 2: A Synopsis of Production Economics
  • 3: The Environment Farmers Operate Under
  • Part 2: Financials: Budgeting, Risk and Investment
  • 4: Budgeting Theory: The Core Systems of Farm Systems Analysis
  • 5: Budgeting Practicalities: Costing out the Proposals
  • 6: Introduction to Managing Risk and Uncertainty
  • 7: Investment Analysis: Recognising Input Output Timing
  • 8: Farm Finances, Financial Accounts and Records in General
  • Part 3: The Farmer’s Skills
  • 9: Skills Required
  • 10: Observation Skills
  • 11: Anticipation and Looking Ahead Skills
  • 12: Understanding the Human Factor
  • 13: Decision and Management Processes and their Improvement
  • Part 4: Farm Systems
  • 14: Improving Systems using Survey Data
  • 15: Introducing Further Methods of Farm Systems Analysis
  • 16: Farm Computing and Software
  • Part 5: More on the Human Factor
  • 17: The Last Word: Objectives and the Family
Suitable for students of agricultural studies and farmers.