The Farming Game Now is the only applied textbook on farm management specifically designed for Australian agricultural students and farmers. The book confronts the complexities of farming in the 1990s, as farm businesses are forced to adapt to technological changes and manage financial pressures. It takes a highly practical approach by introducing a management problem and then outlining analytical techniques to assist in solving it. The book contains a large number of useful diagrams and tables, and the authors suggest additional reading that will be useful for students. In its teaching of farm management, this book manages to strike a balance among modern farming technology, economics, finance, and most importantly, the human factor.
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"I would recommend that agricultural economists involved in farm management instructions, research, and/or extension purchase a copy of this book. Not only would they find it enjoyable reading, but also some of the material undoubtedly could be useful in fulfilling their responsibilities. Instructors of college classes in farm management also should give serious considerations to its use as a text--rarely does a such well-written book become available for classroom use." Wesley N. Musser, American Journal of Agricultural Economics
"I would recommend that agricultural economists involved in farm management instructions, research, and/or extension purchase a copy of this book. Not only would they find it enjoyable reading, but also some of the material undoubtedly could be useful in fulfilling their responsibilities. Instructors of college classes in farm management also should give serious considerations to its use as a text--rarely does a such well-written book become available for classroom use." Wesley N. Musser, American Journal of Agricultural Economics
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The only applied textbook on farm management specifically designed for Australian agricultural students and farmers confronts the complexities of the 1990s wherein farm businesses are forced to adapt to technological changes and new financial pressures.
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Fairly comprehensive treatment of one small part of topic,
By Jim Groves (grovesc@winshop.com.au) (Queensland, Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Farming Game Now (Paperback)
This mis-named book is about nothing other than the application of economic decision-making frameworks to farm management decisions. It says nothing about the context - social, institutional, political, economic, external - of Australian agriculture, nor does it say anything about how to raise animals or grow crops, nor will it help policy analysts in applying social cost-benefit analysis. On the other hand, it is a very comprehensive treatment of its chosen topic, and demonstrates that even techniques of a high level of conceptual sophistication can be applied to practical farm management decisions. The non-treatment of ecological sustainability issues will raise the ire of many - particularly the curtly inappropriate dismissal of agro-forestry. Sustainability issues can be incorporated into the decision-making framework recommended by the authors - indeed, doing so would have aided their message, as long as the discussion of time preference - discounting etc - was also adjusted to recognise the different "discount rates" that should apply to sustainability issues.
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Farming mostly is the process where families use their management skills to combine the land, labour and capital they control to produce agricultural commodities. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
farm management budgets, acquiring machinery services, ewe unit, income equalization deposits, annual cash surplus, annuity whose present value, concessional values, farm operating profit, creep budgeting, farm management analysis, allocative ability, extra taxable income, activity gross margins, sheep activity, farming game, ley phase, agricultural decision analysis, dry sheep equivalent, provisional tax, expected replacement cost, total gross margin, partial budget, stocking rate increases, trading schedule, farm business management Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics, John Wiley, Macmillan Publishing Company, Commissioner of Taxation, Farm Business Management-The Decision Making Process, Present Potential, Cambridge University Press, University of New England, Changing Environment, Iowa State University Press, New South Wales, Reserve Bank, Successful Decisions, Applied Science Publishers Ltd, Border Leicester, Inkata Press, Queensland Department of Primary Industries, University of Melbourne New!
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Farming mostly is the process where families use their management skills to combine the land, labour and capital they control to produce agricultural commodities. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
farm management budgets, acquiring machinery services, ewe unit, income equalization deposits, annual cash surplus, annuity whose present value, concessional values, farm operating profit, creep budgeting, farm management analysis, allocative ability, extra taxable income, activity gross margins, sheep activity, farming game, ley phase, agricultural decision analysis, dry sheep equivalent, provisional tax, expected replacement cost, total gross margin, partial budget, stocking rate increases, trading schedule, farm business management Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics, John Wiley, Macmillan Publishing Company, Commissioner of Taxation, Farm Business Management-The Decision Making Process, Present Potential, Cambridge University Press, University of New England, Changing Environment, Iowa State University Press, New South Wales, Reserve Bank, Successful Decisions, Applied Science Publishers Ltd, Border Leicester, Inkata Press, Queensland Department of Primary Industries, University of Melbourne New!
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- Farm Management by Michael D. Boehlje on 8 pages
- Farm Planning and Control by C. S. Barnard on 5 pages
- Financial Management (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Outline Series) by H. Kent Baker on 5 pages
- Financial Management in Agriculture (6th Edition) by Peter Barry on 5 pages
- Agricultural Decision Analysis by Jock R. Anderson on 4 pages
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- The Farming Game: Agricultural Management and Marketing by Bill Malcolm in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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