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  title info:
    title: Farm business management
    sub title: analysis of farming systems
  name:
    name part: Nuthall, P. L. (Peter Leslie)
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: C.A.B. International
    role:
      role term: issuing body.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2011
    copyright date: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (ix, 453 pages) : illustrations, charts
  abstract: This book discusses the methods to determine optimal systems in farm business management. The methods are all about problem solving, as any decision situation implies choice and, therefore, requires a method for deciding which alternative maximizes the objectives. The book is not, however, about carrying out the optimal plans. Most of the chapters relate to quantitative methods and qualitative analysis. The book has a penultimate chapter discussing a number of analytical models that are commonly used in urban business but which are less important in primary production. The results of farming systems analyses can have a major impact on good decision-making in any primary producing community. Some of the methods might be used by farmers themselves, but more likely by farm advisors and consultants, and by farm management researchers interested in, firstly, providing farmers with guidance on optimal systems, and, secondly, providing governments with advice on the impact of farm policy measures.
  table of contents: Introduction -- The environment under which farming exists -- Decisions under uncertainty : probability, methods, and models -- Cost benefit analysis : recognizing input output timing -- More on decision making utility -- Farm surveys - uses, procedures and methods -- Survey data and improved farming systems -- structing improved systems -- Methods and models of income variability reducing techniques -- Budgeting : the simplest form of farm systems analysis -- Linear programming : the farm model and finding an optimal solution -- Linear programming : using the solution, and creating realistic farm models -- Dynamic programming -- Systems simulation (models of systems that do not fit common analytical techniques) -- The structure and analysis of part farm problems (inventory, replacement, critical paths, and queuing) -- Concluding comments : review and summary.
  note: Peter L. Nuthall, Lincoln University, New Zealand.
  note: Access limited to subscribing institution.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Agricultural systems
    topic: Mathematical models
  subject:
    topic: Farm management
    topic: Decision making
  subject:
    topic: Agricultural Economics
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics and Statistics
  subject:
    topic: Techniques and Methodology
  subject:
    topic: Agribusiness
  subject:
    topic: Agricultural production
  subject:
    topic: Decision making
  subject:
    topic: Farm management
  subject:
    topic: Methodology
  subject:
    topic: Optimization
  subject:
    topic: Problem solving
  subject:
    topic: Qualitative techniques
  subject:
    topic: Quantitative techniques
  classification: S561 .N87 2011eb
  classification: 630.68
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Farm business management
    name:
      name part: Nuthall, P. L. (Peter Leslie)
    origin info:
      publisher: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK ; Cambridge, MA : CAB International, c2011.
    identifier: (DLC)2011001257
  identifier: 1845938399 (alk. paper)
  identifier: 9781845938390 (alk. paper)
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  access condition: Access limited to subscribing institution.
  record info:
    record content source: CtWfDGI
    record creation date: 130802
    record change date: 20210304154740.0
    record identifier: in00003524594
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng