Profitable Farm
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Maximum sustainable output offers increased economic and environmental resilience at both the individual farm and wider industry levels.
The Profitable Farm is a pragmatic guide for farmers and other interested parties to maximum sustainable output (MSO) concepts, practices and applications. The Profitable Farm is suitable for farmers seeking greater resilience and increased profitability, academics who need to re-visit the 'Standard Theory of The Firm' as it applies to farming, and policy-makers charged with responsibility to secure food-supplies and provide support programmes for the sector.
The Profitable Farm provides both the technical background and the practical implications of MSO practices. In particular, it addresses the inescapable realities of energy issues on profitability and environmental damage. Case studies are used throughout to emphasise key points and the appendices will satisfy those wishing to delve further into the technical concepts behind MSO. Unlike most publications on farming, which tend to focus on farming practices, sectoral economics (at a national planning level) or environmental impact issues, The Profitable Farm is essentially about farming as businesses with significant responsibilities to the natural environment and uncompromised animal welfare.
Additional information
| ISBN | 9781917159098 |
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| Dimensions | 156 x 234 mm |
| Book Type | Paperback / softback |
| Author | Chris Clark |
| Author Bio | Chris Clark is an agriculturally educated, non-generational farmer, who when at agricultural college with his wife-to-be, decided that they would buy a farm before he turned 50. His post-college career, with his wife, included spells farming entirely free-range pigs on an organic arable farm, as a tenant farmer and setting-up a successful management consultancy practice specialising in marketing and graphic design work. He purchased Nethergill, a 170 ha farm set in the magnificently moody landscape of Upper Wharfedale, Yorkshire, at 49 and set about turning it into a model of upland farming applying all his considerable management consulting experience. Brian Scanlon is a graduate in mathematics and physics with a post-graduate qualification in operational research. His career started in the steel industry and later embraced management consulting and banking. He had, in parallel, set-up a company which had effected some privatisation projects and flotations on AIM. Farming, to him, was an alien world and he would be 55 before he set foot on a farm. His career had been with major corporations in North America, Europe, and Japan. |
| Number of Pages | 224 |
