Farm Management: Principles and Strategies

Strategic management—How to evaluate, choose, and implement the business strategies that best fit the farmer, the farm and the changing world

Production and operations planning—How to benefit from techniques and management tools used in general business

Quality management and control—How to decrease costs, better meet consumer demands and improve the progress towards goals and objectives

Production contract evaluation—Discusses how to evaluate contracts and includes a checklist of items that a farmer should consider

Decision-making beyond the traditional microeconomic analysis—In addition to the topics just mentioned, the text includes decision making under risk and the development of scenarios to understand the impact of an uncertain future