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.

Farm Business Management
Farm Business Management

Author: Peter L Nuthall

Publisher: CABI

Published: 2016-04-25

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 1780646569

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Farming is a complex job with many unique challenges, but can also be a rich and rewarding career that is full of opportunities. Following the author's Farm Business Management series, this new textbook takes the core principles and techniques and distils them into an accessible student resource. Written by an expert with decades of teaching and research experience around the world, this book also incorporates two brand new chapters on farm accounting and computer systems and software. Providing a hands-on learning experience for students of agriculture, it will continue to be a much-used resource throughout their farming career.

Weather Economics
Weather Economics

Author: James A. Taylor

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2016-04-06

Total Pages: 141

ISBN-13: 1483159558

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Weather Economics presents the papers and discussions at a symposium held at the Welsh Plant Breeding Station on March 13, 1968. The book discusses the cost of British weather; the effect of the weather on farm organization and farm management; and the weather and machinery work-days. The text also describes the basic frost, irrigation and degree-day data for planning purpose; the variations in the marginal value of agricultural labor due to weather factors; and the areal patterns in the value of early potato production in Southwest Wales in 1967. The weather and risk in forestry, as well as the use of cost/benefit studies in the interpretation of probability forecasts for agriculture and industry are also encompassed.

Farm Planning by Computer
Farm Planning by Computer

Author: Great Britain. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Publisher:

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13:

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Getracht wordt de werkwijze uit te leggen hoe landbouwmanagement-aangelegenheden in een lineair programmeringsmodel gevat kunnen worden en per komputer kunnen worden verwerkt. Speciale wiskundige kennis hierbij wordt voor dit boek niet nodig geacht

Farm Planning and Control
Farm Planning and Control

Author: C. S. Barnard

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 616

ISBN-13: 9780521296045

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A comprehensive treatment of farm business and control, with many examples drawn from farming practice.

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.