The Economics of Farm Management

Future farm managers need a range of tools and knowledge to run successful businesses, and this accessible textbook provides the required foundations from economics and management, applied to the farm context.

Autorentext

Kent Olson is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota, USA.

John Westra is Program Leader and Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of Nebraska, USA.

Inhalt

1. Managing the Farm in an Integrated World Economy, 2. Management, 3. Business Plans, 4. Lessons from Microeconomics, 5. Lessons from Macroeconomics, 6. Government Policies Affecting Farming around the World, 7. Strategic Management: Planning, 8. Strategic Management: External and Internal Analysis, 9. Crafting Strategy, 10. Strategy Execution and Control, 11. Marketing Basics, 12. Financial Statements, 13. Financial Analysis, 14. Financial Management, 15. Enterprise Budgets: Uses and Development, 16. Partial Budgets, 17. Whole-Farm Planning, 18. Operations Management for the Farm, 19. Quality Management and Control, 20. Investment Analysis, 21. Land Ownership and Use, 22. Risk Management, 23. Production Contract Evaluation, 24. Human Resource Management, 25. Business Organization, 26. Farm Transfer and Succession Planning, 27. Farming in the Future