Fearless Farm Finances is a one-of-a-kind resource packed with instructions, tips and tools for setting up and managing a farm's financial system. The 2nd edition offers new information and templates for those setting up paper-based systems, a new chapter on farm transition, as well as a new layout and updated resources.
Once known as the "Great American Desert," Nebraska's plains and native grasslands today make it a domestic leader in producing food, feed and fuel. From Omaha to Ogallala, Nebraska's founding farmers, ranchers and agribusiness leaders endured hardships while fostering kinships that have lasted generations. While many continued on the trails leading west, others from around the world stayed, seeking a home and land to cultivate. American Doorstop Project co-founders and authors Jody L. Lamp and Melody Dobson celebrate the state's forgotten and untold agricultural history, highlighting more than a century and a half of agriculture industry, inventions and innovations in the Cornhusker State.
A comprehensive resource for understanding the complexities of agricultural finance Agricultural Finance: From Crops to Land, Water, and Infrastructure is a pioneering book that offers a comprehensive resource for understanding the worldwide agriculture markets, from spikes in agricultural commodity prices to trading strategies, and the agribusiness industry generally to the challenges of feeding the planet in particular. The book also goes in-depth on the topics of land, water, fertilizers, biofuels, and ethanol. Written by Helyette Geman—an industry expert in commodity derivatives—this book explores the agricultural marketplace and the cycles in agricultural commodity prices that can be the key to investor success. This resource addresses a wide range of other important topics as well, including agricultural insurance, energy, shipping and bunker prices, sustainability, investments in land, subsidies, agricultural derivatives, and farming risk-management. Other topics covered include structured products and agricultural commodities ETFs; trade finance in an era of credit shortage; securitization and commodity-linked notes; grains: wheat, corn, soybeans; softs: coffee, cocoa, cotton; shipping as a key component of agricultural trade; and the major agricultural shipping routes and the costs. The book: Offers the first comprehensive resource that deals with the all aspects of agricultural finance Includes information that is crucial for pension funds, asset managers, hedge funds, agribusiness corporates, CTAs and regulators Covers a range of topics from agricultural bunker prices, futures, options to major shipping routes and the costs This text is a must-have resource for accessing the information required to trade successfully in the agricultural marketplace.
The book, Fast Cycle Production: The Manufacturing Philosophy That Always Works is a comprehensive summary of the most powerful productivity tools available to the business world. The author, Tom A. Clason, brilliantly outlines his winning approach to Manufacturing Excellence, which he has been using for several decades to help companies gain market share and defeat their competition. As a successful consultant to a variety of leading companies, Tom Clason has demonstrated that his approach to manufacturing competitiveness works. Fast Cycle Production is as good if not better than any other cycle time reduction technique being offered today, and more importantly, his tools allow these competitive gains to be continuously improved upon. In today's challenging Manufacturing environment, every company is looking for an advantage over its competition. Fast Cycle Production allows for extraordinary gains to factory throughputs, as well as helping to achieve dramatic cycle time and WIP reductions. These gains are realized in the order of just a few months, as compared with other approaches that may take years to achieve comparable results. And while maintaining the gains is a challenge for any continuous improvement process; Fast Cycle Production provides the tools for sustaining an on-going operational improvement effort. Competing in today's marketplace requires superior manufacturing strategies and a constant vigilance towards increasing productivity by improving production processes. Fast Cycle Production's time-tested approach to process improvement has helped a countless number of companies, including several Corporate 100 companies. By using the approaches outlined in this book, companies have pulled themselves out of pending failure, and turned their organization into industry leaders. This easy to follow approach to achieving World Class manufacturing status becomes available to everyone through this powerful book. "Fast Cycle Production" provides the answers to your organization's productivity needs, whether you're interested in maintaining your competitive edge, or need to completely reinvent your manufacturing processes, these techniques can help you achieve dramatic results. When used as Tom Clason prescribes for his readers, these principles always produce winning results!
The facts and materials found in this publication apply generally. Many may not be applicable to a specific situation. It is a good idea for a farmer to get competent local assistance or advice on such matters.
Excerpt from Managing Farm Finances Many farmers, of course, ran into hard luck. They were sick or had sickness in the family. They had accidents, or their crops or livestock were hit by disease or storms, floods destroyed their build ings and crops, or some other disaster overtook them. Good manage ment can help to lessen the severity of these misfortunes but it cannot prevent them. To be successful, farmers must know how to acquire their farms, livestock, machinery, and other items on a sound basis; they must know how to make them produce a good income (not merely produce commodities); and finally, they must knowhow to invest that income wisely. This combines both proper management of the physical property on'the farm and wise financial management of the farm business. Financial management deals with the management of money. It deals with how a farmer gets his money, whether from farm income or from borrowing; and what he does with his money, whether he spends it or lends it out to someone else. It also deals with money, whether he saves it as cash or whether it is saved in the form of an equity in property. His decisions on how to handle the flow of money into and out of the farm business, as well as his decisions on how to handle the fund of money represented by cash or an equity in farm property is financial management. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
