Farm Business Analysis Using Benchmarking

Farm Business Analysis Using Benchmarking

Author: David Kahan

Publisher: Farm Management Extension Guid

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789251075456

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The purpose of this guide is to provide a better understanding of the concept and practice of entrepreneurship. This guide has been prepared for people who want to start a farm business for the first time and for farmers that want to make changes to their farming systems by introducing high value enterprises directed to the market. This guide can also help extension workers be better able to help farmers develop the skills and spirit of an entrepreneur. It is part of a series of booklets on farm business management designed to help extension workers support farmers.


Benchmarking in Food and Farming

Benchmarking in Food and Farming

Author: Lisa Jack

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2016-04-08

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 1317175212

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At a time when food producers have to make significant changes to their businesses in order to survive, a review of benchmarking in agriculture and discussion of its future potential is critical. This book meets that need by providing an overview of existing benchmarking practices in agriculture and the food supply chain, and evaluating the potential of these practices to drive sustainable innovation in food and farming. Increasing pressures from commodity markets, corporate buyers, government and rising input prices (particularly fuel prices) are creating an environment in which farmers and their advisors are keen to make greater use of performance information for survival and growth. Where farmers are diversifying into alternative production methods, non-agricultural enterprises and on-farm production and sales, the greater the interest in a wider range of accounting tools for decision making. Lisa Jack and her contributors draw on a wide range of data and sources from Australia, New Zealand, the USA, the UK and Europe to provide critical evaluations of what might be considered 'state of the art' benchmarking practices at this time, including recent strategic developments such as the use of non-financial measures in balanced scorecards. The food and farming industry is unusual in that benchmarking takes place among large numbers of small, family-owned businesses working in a global industry. Not only, therefore, is this book important for those working in food supply chain businesses, but also for those involved in the general practice of benchmarking.


A decision guide for rural advisory methods

A decision guide for rural advisory methods

Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.

Published: 2018-05-18

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 9251300194

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This decision guide is intended to help extension professionals and their organizations make informed decisions on methods and approaches for providing information, technologies and services to rural producers and to facilitate interactions and knowledge flow. Expected users include field-based rural advisors, extension managers and programme planners.


Farm Business Management

Farm Business Management

Author: Peter L Nuthall

Publisher: CABI

Published: 2018-12-14

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 1789240735

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The underlying economic factors that effect primary production are frequently studied and written about - soil quality, animal health, climate, machinery. This book explores the psychology of successful farm business management and decision making.


A Market Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Agroenterprise Development

A Market Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Agroenterprise Development

Author: Shaun Ferris

Publisher: Catholic Relief Services

Published: 2006-09

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1614920028

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This publication is a product of the experiences and lessons learned while implementing agroenterprise projects in eastern and southern Africa. A Market Facilitator's Guide is based on a resource-to-consumption framework, which is the central theme of the "enabling rural innovation" approach for rural development. This approach seeks to empower farmer groups with the necessary skills to make informed decisions for their economic development, based on an analysis of their surroundings, assets and skills. The methodology also aims for outcomes that are equitable, gender focused and participatory.


FAO Publications Series 2021

FAO Publications Series 2021

Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.

Published: 2021-04-08

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9251341613

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FAO’s major publications series are presented together in a user-friendly catalogue. The catalogue features all of the most active series, both new and long-standing, and is divided into areas of work, including agriculture, forestry, fisheries, trade and investment, among others. Each series entry includes technical specifications, language versions, most recent titles, relevant ISSNs, and QR codes linking to online resources in the FAO Document Repository.


The Role of the Farm Management Specialist in Extension

The Role of the Farm Management Specialist in Extension

Author: David Kahan

Publisher: Farm Management Extension Guid

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789251075517

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Farm management extension is concerned with the development of management strategies and skills among farmers for improved decision-making in the use of resources and linking farmers to markets. With the increasing market-orientation of farming, the decisions taken by farmers are more complex; for farms to compete they must be run as a business. This creates a demand for specialized extension support. To be successful farmers need the skills to produce what the market wants and what satisfies consumers. The growing importance of specialization in farm management is to support farmers in this work.


Agricultural Finance and Credit

Agricultural Finance and Credit

Author: Jonathan M. Bishoff

Publisher: Nova Publishers

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 9781604560725

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Because of the nature of front-end funding of growing crops, cyclical weather patterns and the national security aspects of agriculture, finance and credit has become a critical component of agriculture. This new book presents important analyses dealing with issues critical to maintaining a vigorous agricultural industry in America.


Benchmarking

Benchmarking

Author: Robert C. Camp

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2024-11-01

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 104027739X

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Written by Dr. Robert Camp, universally regarded as the founding father of the benchmark process, this bestseller is quite simply the definitive reference on the topic. Camp guides readers through the historic ten-step benchmarking process that he developed while at Xerox. This process is credited with reviving that company when it was floundering in 1979. Camp presents other examples of the process, including its dramatic application to L.L. Bean. He uses these examples to show managers how to relate benchmarking to their own circumstances and then provides them with expert strategy and tips so that they can efficiently and easily launch their own quest for best performance.