Farm business management : analysis of farming systems /

• Main Author: Nuthall, P. L. (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2011.
• Subjects: Farm management > Decision making.; Agricultural systems > Mathematical models.; Agricultural Economics.; Mathematics and Statistics.; Techniques and Methodology.; Agribusiness.; Agricultural production.; Decision making.; Farm management.; Methodology.; Optimization.; Problem solving.; Qualitative techniques.; Quantitative techniques.; Electronic books.
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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 car...

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.