This is a study of business growth and performance in the world’s largest industry.

Successful agricultural businesses are not only cost-efficient internally. They also work in reasonably favorable economic, political, and physical-organic environments.

Various features of the agricultural industry make business growth and profitability more problematic in it than in other industries. The book looks at how commercial farms can expand and make profits, keep their costs down, improve the productivity of land, labor, and capital, and ensure their products are competitive and in market demand.

CONTENTS

1. Agricultural businesses: Key influences on growth and performance

2. Agricultural business economics

3. The political-legal environment

4. The agricultural land market

5. Financing agricultural businesses

6. Agricultural technologies

7. Agricultural labor

8. Production organization and management

9. Marketing and distribution