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AGT 229 Farm Management

ND2 levelComputing & ICT14 topics

AGT 229 covers 14 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Nature and scope of farm management
  2. Agricultural characteristics affecting management
  3. Farm management environment and goals
  4. Tools of farm management
  5. Risk and uncertainty
  6. Farm management problems and decision factors
  7. Production and cost functions
  8. Short-run and long-run production
  9. Diminishing returns and opportunity cost
  10. Stages of production and economic stage
  11. Optimum input and output decisions
  12. Farm records and record systems
  13. Enterprise records
  14. Farm accounts and double-entry bookkeeping

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Nature and scope of farm management

Farm management is the systematic planning, organizing, directing, and controlling of all farm activities to achieve maximum productivity and profitability. The core ideas are understanding the farm as a business, the role of management in resource allocation, and the importance of integrating technology and sustainability.

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