Farm Planning with Linear Programming: Concept and Practice

Farm Planning with Linear Programming: Concept and Practice

Author: J B Dent

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2013-10-22

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1483103048

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Farm Planning with Linear Programming: Concept and Practice focuses on concepts and methods in farm planning. The book first discusses the principles of farm planning, including elements of farm planning problems, summary, and review questions. The text highlights farm planning models. The nature of models; commonly used farm planning models; multiple constraint problems and program planning; problems in applying models; and comments are considered. The book also focuses on the linear programming network; opportunity cost and the simplex method; and analysis of the linear programming solution. The text also explains tableaux construction for short-run planning. Crop and pasture rotations; feed budgeting; buy, sell, and hire activities; and livestock reconciliation are discussed. The book also describes pastoral property applications. Breed comparison; economics of off-farm grazing and spatial diversification; and optimal calving date and lactation length on dairy farms are discussed. The text is a good source of information for agricultural researchers, farmers, and students wanting to study farm management.


An Illustrated Guide to Linear Programming

An Illustrated Guide to Linear Programming

Author: Saul I. Gass

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2013-04-09

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0486319601

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Entertaining, nontechnical introduction covers basic concepts of linear programming and its relationship to operations research; geometric interpretation and problem solving, solution techniques, network problems, much more. Only high-school algebra needed.


Linear Programming

Linear Programming

Author: Saul I. Gass

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 545

ISBN-13: 048643284X

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Comprehensive, well-organized volume, suitable for undergraduates, covers theoretical, computational, and applied areas in linear programming. Expanded, updated edition; useful both as a text and as a reference book. 1995 edition.


Farm Management Hand-book

Farm Management Hand-book

Author: Guillermo Guerra

Publisher: IICA

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 9789290390206

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Chapter 1: Characteristics of agriculture. Chapter 2: managerial science in agricultural enterprises. Chapter 3: basic principles of economic analysis in the agricultural enterprise. Chapter 4: methods of obtaining information for analysis and planning of the agricultural enterprise. Chapter 5: standards of measurement for analyzing the agriculturalenterprise. Chapter 6: procedures for analyzing and planning the agricultural enterprise. Chapter 7: Farm management analysis in an integraleconomic development program. Chapter 8: using data on the agricultural enterprise as a guide for future planning. Chapter 9: indices or coefficients for analyzing alternative production lines. Chapter 10: evaluation alternate plans by means of comparative budgets.


Farm Management Research for Small Farmer Development

Farm Management Research for Small Farmer Development

Author: John L. Dillon

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9789251008225

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The small farm setting. Definition of farm management research. Conduct of farm management research. The need for farm management research on small farms. Approaches to farm management research on small farms. Role of farm management research techniques...


Farm Business Management

Farm Business Management

Author: P. L. Nuthall

Publisher: CABI

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 463

ISBN-13: 9781845938406

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The third and final instalment of Peter Nuthall's "Farm Business Management" series, this volume teaches the practical skills needed to manage a farm, such as risk analysis, budgeting, cost benefit analyses and much more. The key characteristic of this book is its ability to simplify the complex subject of business management into a clear, accessible volume tailored to the topic of farming, by using engaging techniques such as worked examples to fully explain the complex decision making tools necessary for this discipline.


Farm Business Management

Farm Business Management

Author: Peter L. Nuthall

Publisher: CABI

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 463

ISBN-13: 1845938399

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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 carrying out the optimal plans. Most of the chapters relate to quantitative methods and qualitative analysis. The book has a penultimate chapter discussing a number of analytical models that are commonly used in urban business but which are less important in primary production. The results of farming systems analyses can have a major impact on good decision-making in any primary producing community. Some of the methods might be used by farmers themselves, but more likely by farm advisors and consultants, and by farm management researchers interested in, firstly, providing farmers with guidance on optimal systems, and, secondly, providing governments with advice on the impact of farm policy measures.