Farm management
Subtitle: principles and strategies
By: Kent D. Olson.
Publisher: Iowa State Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Ames, Iowa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 429
Subjects: Farm management.
Table of contents: title: The scope of farm management; title: The farming environment; title: The functions of management; title: The decision process; title: The farm business life cycle; title: A business plan; title: Strategic management; title: A game plan; title: Crafting a strategy; title: Strategic planning; title: Strategy implementation; title: Strategic control; title: Marketing plan; title: Marketing plan components; title: Historical price patterns; title: General price forecasting methods; title: Marketing control; title: Budgeting; title: General budget terminology; title: Types of budgets; title: Microeconomic principles for management; title: Budget development; title: Production and operations management; title: Process mapping; title: Improving the current process; title: Enterprise selection; title: Input supply management; title: Scheduling operations; title: Quality management and control; title: Quality  defined; title: The costs of quality; title: Quality management; title: Process control; title: Tools for process improvement; title: Financial analysis; title: Understanding financial statements; title: Measures of financial position and performance; title: Initial analysis; title: Diagnostic analysis; title: Financial management; title: Sources and uses of capital; title: Calculating loan payments; title: Estimating the cost of credit; title: Cash flow management; title: Financial control; title: Investment analysis; title: The time value of money; title: Investment analysis (a.k.a. capital budgeting); title: Land purchase and rental; title: Purchasing land; title: Land rental; title: Risk management; title: Sources of risk; title: Managing risk; title: Crop insurance; title: Making risky decisions; title: Scenarios for management planning; title: Production contract evaluation; title: Types of production contracts; title: Evaluating production contracts; title: A production contract checklist; title: Staffing and organization; title: Human and employee needs; title: Human resource management; title: Business organization; title: The future farm manager; title: Farmers' responses; title: Concluding comments.