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Business management for tropical dairy farmers /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moran, John, 1945-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Collingwood, Vic. : Landlinks Press, [2009]
Subjects:
Farms, Small > Southeast Asia > Management.
Farm management > Southeast Asia.
Dairy farming > Southeast Asia > Management.
Dairy farms > Southeast Asia > Management.
Small business > Southeast Asia > Management.
Dairying > economics.
Asia, Southeastern.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • What is farm business management?
  • Smallholder dairy farming in Asia
  • Feed production technology on smallholder dairy farms
  • Improved herd management on smallholder dairy farms
  • The harvesting and marketing of milk from smallholder farms
  • The base price for raw milk
  • The importance of record keeping
  • Categorising farm costs and farm revenue
  • The key tools of farm business analyses
  • Measures of farm profit
  • Formulating profitable rations
  • Feeding decisions driving profit
  • Key performance measures of farm profitability
  • Budgeting for future farm development
  • Risk in tropical dairy farming
  • Case studies of profitable tropical dairy farming systems
  • Planning and conducting workshops in farm business management
  • The future for smallholder dairy industries in tropical Asia