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Are Your Farm Business Management Skills Ready for the 21st Century?

Michael Boehlje, Craig Dobbins and, Alan Miller (April, 2001)

Summary

This publication provides lists of indicators and detailed checklists for each production, procurement and selling, financial management, personnel, strategy development, relationship management, leadership, and risk management. Many of these business functions are new for the farm manager, reflecting farming’s changed business environment. Farm managers need to perform these additional new functions if they are to become successful farm business managers.