Description
Book SynopsisFarming 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. This book is enhanced with supplementary resources.
Table of ContentsPart 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
