Although farmers have many motives in running their farms, the achievement of a worthwhile financial return to their resources, coupled with a good standard of living, ranks high among them. This implies the need for sound business organisation-the more so as holdings become larger, more specialised and more capital intensive.
The present book offers a comprehensive treatment of farm business organisation and control. Although it is designed primarily as an intermediate text for students in universities and agricultural colleges, it contains much of interest and value to all those concerned with the business side of farming, including farmers, farm managers, farm business advisers, land agents, accountants and bank managers. This wide coverage is made possible by a mainly non-mathematical presentation coupled with a liberal use of examples drawn from farming practice.
The book is divided into four parts: the Organisation of Re-sources, the Organisation of Enterprises, the Combination of Enterprises and the Control of Resources and Enterprises. These parts follow one another in logical sequence, the general theme being that, in order to make the most economic use of the re-sources at his disposal, the farmer has to decide what resources to use, how to organise their use within individual enterprises and how to combine the enterprises into an integrated farming system. Lastly, if these efforts are not to be largely wasted, he must initiate the keeping of suitable records to provide both planning data and a system of checks and controls when his plans are put into practice. Throughout, detail is subordinated to principle, so that the reader may gain a clear insight into the processes of farm planning and control.
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