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Better Business Management Through Financial Management, Burton Pflueger
Better Business Management Through Financial Management, Burton Pflueger
Economics Staff Paper Series
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Using The Income Statement For Management Decisions, Burton Pflueger
Using The Income Statement For Management Decisions, Burton Pflueger
Economics Staff Paper Series
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Using Farm Cash Flow Statements For Management Decisions, Burton Pflueger
Using Farm Cash Flow Statements For Management Decisions, Burton Pflueger
Economics Staff Paper Series
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Agricultural Producer Responses To Water Quality Issues, Proposed Water Quality Policy Options, And Related Farm Management Practices, Burton Pflueger, John Cole
Agricultural Producer Responses To Water Quality Issues, Proposed Water Quality Policy Options, And Related Farm Management Practices, Burton Pflueger, John Cole
Economics Staff Paper Series
Farmers are becoming increasingly aware of the environmental consequences of farming practices that have become "conventional" over the last 30 to 40 years. As agricultural producers, they are expressing concern about erosion, ground water contamination, and personal health considerations from chemical use. At the same time, farmers are concerned about the economic viability of their operations. Farmers cannot afford to sacrifice net farm income in order to meet stricter environmental regulations. A software package named Planetor has been developed that can be used to examine the interrelationships between economic sustainability and environmental safety. Researchers working on the Big Sioux Aquifer …
The Skills And Training Needed By Farm Management Researchers In The Future: Discussion, Douglas Franklin
The Skills And Training Needed By Farm Management Researchers In The Future: Discussion, Douglas Franklin
Economics Staff Paper Series
This paper discusses Loren Tauer's paper entitled "The Skills and Training Needed by Farm Management researches in the Future. "To discuss the skills and training needed in the future, the priorities identified for the future are to be specified to indicate the direction training may need to be focused. As noted English novelist-playwright and Nobel Prize winner John Galsworthy stated, “If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one. "Thus, this paper is a forward looking paper in that regard, thinking about the future so that we can focus on a direction. However, Alan Greenspan has pulled …
Farm Management Innovators: Characteristics Of Eastern South Dakota Farm Operations; Wheat Outlook, Douglas Franklin, Abdirizak Ahmed, Dick Shane
Farm Management Innovators: Characteristics Of Eastern South Dakota Farm Operations; Wheat Outlook, Douglas Franklin, Abdirizak Ahmed, Dick Shane
Economics Commentator
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Women In Agriculture: Balancing Family And Farm: Summary Of The 1991 Conference, Rebecca Lafferty, Burton Pflueger
Women In Agriculture: Balancing Family And Farm: Summary Of The 1991 Conference, Rebecca Lafferty, Burton Pflueger
Economics Staff Paper Series
The success of the first "Women in Agriculture" conference, entitled "Challenging The Future", has the South Dakota Cooperative Extension Service to develop the second program entitled "Balancing Family and Farm". The first conference was designed to provide women with the incentive to challenge the future of agriculture while the second conference was designed to help women learn how to balance their family life with the business of farming or ranching. The second "Women in Agriculture" (WIA) conference was held in Pierre, South Dakota in March, 1991. The overall goal of the conference was to provide women with an opportunity to …
Management Practices Of Successful Family Farms, Burton Pflueger, Rebecca Lafferty
Management Practices Of Successful Family Farms, Burton Pflueger, Rebecca Lafferty
Economics Staff Paper Series
"Success" has constantly been a difficult word to define both for family-farm managers as well for those individuals who work closely with them . Past research in successful farm management have tried to measure success through a wide variety of factors: profitability, achieving personal goals, farm survival, farm growth, and financial measures of success such as accumulated wealth or annual profitability. More recently, a successful farm operator could also be classified as successful if he was able to achieve the objectives or goals set forth for his operation. Therein lies the conflict. If a farm operators goals for successful management …
Management Strategies Of Successful Brookings County Producers, Burton Pflueger, Rebecca Lafferty
Management Strategies Of Successful Brookings County Producers, Burton Pflueger, Rebecca Lafferty
Economics Staff Paper Series
This study was conducted during the summer of 1988 to gather information on the current management strategies being implemented on "successful" farms. The initial objective of the study was to examine farm level definitions of success including, but not limited to, family life, goal orientation and financial measures. Management strategies and their implementation processes was to be examined on a whole farm as well as individual enterprise basis. An objective of the study was to follow the decision making process of an individual producer through a complete season or cycle.
Whole Farm Analysis Of Low-Input Sustainable Farming Systems Using An Extension Farm Financial Management Package, Mark Leddy, Thomas Dobbs, Burton Pflueger
Whole Farm Analysis Of Low-Input Sustainable Farming Systems Using An Extension Farm Financial Management Package, Mark Leddy, Thomas Dobbs, Burton Pflueger
Economics Staff Paper Series
Farmers in recent years have been faced with economic hardships and an increasing awareness of the environmental impacts of conventional farming practices. These factors have led many farmers to consider "alternative" farming methods and practices to replace conventional farming practices. "Alternative" systems include those going by a variety of labels, not all of which always mean the same thing. Terms used include regenerative sustainable, low-input, and organic, among others. A recently established research and education program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture uses the term "low-input/sustainable agriculture" ("LISA"). The LISA program contrasts conventional and alternative or low-input/sustainable farming systems in …
Farm/Ranch Financial Management Issues For 1990 Extension Programming, Cindy Snyder, Burton Pflueger
Farm/Ranch Financial Management Issues For 1990 Extension Programming, Cindy Snyder, Burton Pflueger
Economics Staff Paper Series
The articles in this paper are adapted from talks and papers presented at the North Central Regional Extension Farm Management and Marketing Workshop: The New Agriculture: Enhancing Profitability and Competiveness in a changing Structure: An Evolving Role for Extension Farm Management, May 3-5, 1988, Iowa State University, Ames Iowa. These papers are presented here as a summary of, and comments on, the ideas and concepts presented at the conference that are most pertinent to extension financial and farm management programming efforts in South Dakota. The Extension farm management staff, consisting of financial management specialist Dr. Burton Pflueger; and Area Farm …