Students study each topic in excruciating detail, one by one, as if each topic were an isolated specimen. But on a working ranch, all these topics are totally interrelated. A nutrition problem on a ranch is also a health problem, and a labor problem, and an agronomic problem of forages and grains, and certainly a financial problem, with implications for debts, risks, and marketing. The Management Objectives section, on the other hand, identifies any useful items, no matter how diverse. The Management Objectives section addresses real-world situations and points to those areas of the Handbook that could help solve them.
Good information drives good decisions.
It's our industry helping itself.