Farm Business Management
Farm Business Management
Author: P L NuthallThe third and final instalment of Peter Nuthall's Farm Business Management series, this volume teaches the practical skills needed to manage a farm, such as risk analysis, budgeting, cost benefit analyses and much more. The key characteristic of this book is its ability to simplify the complex subject of business management into a clear, accessible volume tailored to the topic of farming, by using engaging techniques such as worked examples to fully explain the complex decision making tools necessary for this discipline.
Availability: In Print
Publication date: September 2011
Binding: Hardcover
Dimensions: Unknown
Weight: Unknown
Extent: 464pp
ISBN: 9781845938390
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Preview: Farm Business Management
- Introduction
- The Environment Under Which Farming Systems Exist
- Decisions Under Non-certainty - Probability, Methods and Models
- Cost-Benefit Analysis - Recognizing Input-Output Timing
- More on Decision Making and Utility (Objectives)
- Farm Surveys - Uses, Procedures and Methods
- Improving Farming Systems Using Survey Data; and Information Systems
- Constructing Improved Systems
- Methods and Models of Income Variability Reducing Techniques
- Budgeting - The Simplest Form of Farm Systems Analysis
- Linear Programming - The Farm Model and Finding an Optimal Solution
- Linear Programming - Using the Solution and Creating Realistic Farm Models
- Dynamic Programming
- Systems Simulation
- The Structure and Analysis of Specific Part-farm Problems
- Concluding Comments - Review and Summary
- The Environment Under Which Farming Systems Exist
Appendix 1: A Synopsis of Production Economics
Appendix 2: Example of the output from an Individual Farm 'End of Year' Analysis
Appendix 3: Solving Linear Programming Problems
Appendix 4: An Example of a Schematic LP Matrix for a Simple Lamb-Producing Farm
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