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020			_a0813804183 (alk. paper)
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050	0	0	_aS561 _b.O48 2004
082	0	0	_a630.68 OLS _222
100	1		_aOlson, Kent D. _95768
245	1	0	_aFarm management : _bprinciples and strategies / _cKent D. Olson.
260			_aAmes, Iowa : _bIowa State Press, _cc2004.
300			_axiii, 429 p. : _bill. ; _c27 cm.
505	0		_aThe scope of farm management -- The farming environment -- The functions of management -- The decision process -- The farm business life cycle -- A business plan -- Strategic management -- A game plan -- Crafting a strategy -- Strategic planning -- Strategy implementation -- Strategic control -- Marketing plan -- Marketing plan components -- Historical price patterns -- General price forecasting methods -- Marketing control -- Budgeting -- General budget terminology -- Types of budgets -- Microeconomic principles for management -- Budget development -- Production and operations management -- Process mapping -- Improving the current process -- Enterprise selection -- Input supply management -- Scheduling operations -- Quality management and control -- Quality defined -- The costs of quality -- Quality management -- Process control -- Tools for process improvement -- Financial analysis -- Understanding financial statements -- Measures of financial position and performance -- Initial analysis -- Diagnostic analysis -- Financial management -- Sources and uses of capital -- Calculating loan payments -- Estimating the cost of credit -- Cash flow management -- Financial control -- Investment analysis -- The time value of money -- Investment analysis (a.k.a. capital budgeting) -- Land purchase and rental -- Purchasing land -- Land rental -- Risk management -- Sources of risk -- Managing risk -- Crop insurance -- Making risky decisions -- Scenarios for management planning -- Production contract evaluation -- Types of production contracts -- Evaluating production contracts -- A production contract checklist -- Staffing and organization -- Human and employee needs -- Human resource management -- Business organization -- The future farm manager -- Farmers' responses -- Concluding comments.
650		0	_aFarm management. _95769
658			_aAgriculture.
856	4	1	_3Table of contents _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip041/2003005501.html
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