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Introduction to Agricultural Management
The title of this course indicates that the focus is on managing or decision making in agriculture. The goal is to understand how economic, financial and managerial concepts can be applied when making decisions. With this goal for the course, there also needs to be a focus on understanding agriculture; not the detailed natural and physical sciences of plants, animals, food, energy and other items, but a broader understanding of role and direction of agriculture.
The discussion throughout the course integrates a variety of topics, thus a discussion of an economic concept may be followed by a managerial topic, which is then followed with a discussion of an agricultural subject. Be ready not only to change focus, but to integrate a variety of topics.
An assumption underpinning the course is that students have been introduced to most of these topics in previous courses, such as demand and supply in an economics course, and revenue and costs in an accounting course. The challenge in this course is to recognize how decision makers combine these concepts in their analysis to accomplish their task, that is, to make a decision. The course outline along the right edge of this page demonstrates the range of topics that students need to understand, integrate, synthesize and apply.
A review of economic resources is the first step in this course of study.
Last Updated August 23, 2010
Email: David.Saxowsky@ndsu.edu
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