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| Preface | |
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| The Scope of Farm Management | |
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| The Farming Environment | |
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| The Functions of Management | |
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| The Decision Process | |
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| The Farm Business Life Cycle | |
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| A Business Plan | |
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| Strategic Management | |
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| A Game Plan | |
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| Crafting a Strategy | |
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| Strategic Planning | |
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| Strategy Implementation | |
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| Strategic Control | |
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| Marketing Plan | |
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| Marketing Plan Components | |
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| Historical Price Patterns | |
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| General Price Forecasting Methods | |
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| Marketing Control | |
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| Budgeting | |
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| General Budget Terminology | |
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| Types of Budgets | |
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| Microeconomic Principles for Management | |
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| Budget Development | |
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| Production and Operations Management | |
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| Process Mapping | |
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| Improving the Current Process | |
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| Enterprise Selection | |
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| Input Supply Management | |
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| Scheduling Operations | |
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| Quality Management and Control | |
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| Quality Defined | |
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| The Costs of Quality | |
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| Quality Management | |
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| Process Control | |
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| Tools for Process Improvement | |
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| Financial Analysis | |
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| Understanding Financial Statements | |
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| Measures of Financial Position and Performance | |
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| Initial Analysis | |
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| Diagnostic Analysis | |
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| Financial Management | |
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| Sources and Uses of Capital | |
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| Calculating Loan Payments | |
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| Estimating the Cost of Credit | |
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| Cash Flow Management | |
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| Financial Control | |
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| Investment Analysis | |
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| The Time Value of Money | |
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| Investment Analysis (a.k.a. Capital Budgeting) | |
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| Land Purchase and Rental | |
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| Purchasing Land | |
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| Land Rental | |
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| Risk Management | |
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| Sources of Risk | |
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| Managing Risk | |
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| Crop Insurance | |
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| Making Risky Decisions | |
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| Scenarios for Management Planning | |
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| Production Contract Evaluation | |
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| Types of Production Contracts | |
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| Evaluating Production Contracts | |
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| A Production Contract Checklist | |
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| Staffing and Organization | |
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| Human and Employee Needs | |
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| Human Resource Management | |
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| Business Organization | |
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| The Future Farm Manager | |
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| Farmers' Responses | |
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| Concluding Comments | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Estimating the Annual Costs of Capital Assets | |
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| Estimating Average Annual Machine Costs | |
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| Estimating the Annual Costs of Building Services | |
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| Supplemental Information for Financial Analysis | |
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| Other Financial Measures | |
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| Inventory of Resources | |
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| Checking Record Accuracy | |
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| Estimating Subjective Probabilities | |
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| Rules for Estimating Probabilities | |
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| Choosing Data Intervals for Probability Estimation | |
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| Estimating Subjective Probabilities | |
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| Interest Tables | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |