Western FarmPress
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
This Week in Agribusiness takes a look at the markets, a new study out relating the protein being consumed to the use of GLP1-- weight loss drugs, the weather, the cattle market and some new technology.
Agric4profits
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
This article outlines the role of feed evaluation in animal production, providing an overview of feed evaluation methods, current feeding systems, and empirical and mechanistic modelling, linking these methods, systems, and models. The Need for Feed Evaluation Animal production is primarily concerned with providing food and clothing of animal origin for humans.
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Western FarmPress
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
CNH Industrial rolls out artificial intelligence platform at service locations.
Agric4profits
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
Feeding standards are quantitative descriptions or tables listing the amounts of one or more nutrients required by different species of animals for specific productive functions. These standards are usually expressed either in terms of nutrient quantities required per day or as percentages of a diet.
Climate and Agriculture in the Southeast
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
While we have focused a lot this year on damage to crops, livestock, trees, and infrastructure from the multiple tropical systems that have hit the Southeast this year, the recent snow storm that hit along the Gulf Coast and eastward through southern Georgia and the Carolinas has caused considerable damage to agriculture as well.
Agric4profits
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
Production is incomplete until it reaches the possession of final consumers. It is essential for agribusiness managers to be familiar with marketing management, which involves a series of activities that facilitate the product’s journey to consumers.
Climate and Agriculture in the Southeast
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
The latest 7-day QPF map shows that several storms are expected to impact the Southeast over the next week as a few shortwaves move along a front located in the northern part of the region will bring pulses of rain to northern Alabama and Georgia as well as the western Carolinas and most of Tennessee.
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Climate and Agriculture in the Southeast
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
The latest Drought Monitor map, released on Thursday morning, shows a broad area of worsening drought conditions in northern Alabama and Georgia and western South Carolina over the last week. A few smaller areas were also seen in the North Carolina mountains and in pockets in Florida.
Agric4profits
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
The principles of management as outlined by Henri Fayol have applications in agribusiness enterprises. In agribusiness, starting from farm operations, there is a division of labor. For crop husbandry, operations include land preparation, planting, weeding, harvesting, and processing. Often, these tasks are handled by different individuals.
Western FarmPress
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
Mike Pearson talks with Brooke Booth, the Iowa State FFA SW Vice President. They discuss leadership and chapter visits but how Booth has a background in Agriculture.
Agric4profits
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
The process of manufacturing animal feed involves converting raw materials with widely varying physical, chemical, and nutritional compositions into a homogeneous mixture. This mixture is suitable for producing the desired nutritional response in animals. The process is primarily physical, with few chemical changes.
Real Agriculture
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
Thanks for tuning in to RealAg on the Weekend! On todays show, host Shaun Haney discusses a number of topics including: Matt Makens of Makens Weather with a late winter weather outlook; Michael Harvey, executive director of CAFTA regarding the importance of trade for Canada; and What Saskatchewan farmers think about all this trade talk Read More Thanks for tuning in to RealAg on the Weekend!
Agric4profits
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
The significant financial requirements of agribusiness, coupled with the low-income status of many Nigerians, often compel entrepreneurs to secure loans from financial institutions for the execution of planned agricultural projects. Loans obtained must be repaid with interest on a stipulated date.
Agric4profits
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
The Time Value of Money (TVM) is an essential concept in financial management, applicable in various agricultural business decisions. It can be used to compare investment alternatives and to address issues involving loans, mortgages, leases, savings, and annuities in agricultural ventures.
Agric4profits
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
Agricultural products, including crops and livestock, in many less developed countries are often sold as primary products both locally and internationally, resulting in low prices. This situation leads to the impoverishment of farmers due to the low income generated from farm business enterprises.
Agric4profits
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
A common and traditional definition of the agro-processing industry refers to the subset of manufacturing that processes raw materials and intermediate products derived from the agricultural sector. The agro-processing industry refers to the subsector of the manufacturing industry that specializes in transforming or processing raw materials from the agricultural sector.
Agric4profits
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
A number of ratios have been developed to assist in the review of the balance sheet. These ratios serve as useful tools for evaluating the financial health of an agricultural business enterprise. The following sections will discuss these ratios in detail.
Agric4profits
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
The cash flow plan is an essential financial management tool for agribusiness operations. It addresses one of the most serious financial challenges faced on farms today managing cash flow effectively. The cash flow plan is the central component of the annual farm planning process.
Agric4profits
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
Production is incomplete until the products are in the hands of consumers. All activities involved between the time the product leaves the farm gate and the time it reaches the consumers are known as marketing. Marketing activities include processing, transportation, storage, financing, and risk-bearing.
Agric4profits
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
The agricultural marketing system has two distinct dimensions. One of these dimensions involves the institutions, organizations, and enterprises that participate in a market, while the other is the functions these participants perform. The functions of agricultural marketing are categorized into three classes: exchange, physical, and facilitating functions.
Agric4profits
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
Over the last few years, the Nigerian economy has experienced a series of reforms and restructuring in key sectors. These reforms include the Financial, Petroleum, and Power Sectors, among others. The financial sector reform has been the most noticeable, as banks and insurance companies have been mandated to recapitalize in line with government regulatory requirements.
Agric4profits
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
Farm managers, as directors, understand that the success of farm operations depends on the combined performance of all workers under their supervision.
Agric4profits
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
A commercial feed is nutritionally suitable for its intended use as represented by its labeling. A feed label allows the purchaser to select a product to meet production needs. A label provides basic product information that helps determine how to use the product safely and obtain the best benefits and results.
Agric4profits
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
Biological clocks are internal mechanisms within animals that influence their physiology and behavior, synchronizing them with cyclic changes in the environment. These clocks operate on various time periods, such as several hours, a day, or even a year. The circadian clock runs on a cycle of approximately 24 hours.
Agric4profits
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
Co-ordination involves unifying and synchronizing the actions of groups of people within the farm. Communication refers to the free flow of information from the manager to the subordinates and vice versa. Controlling is the process of influencing performance or overseeing activities so that the results of organizational efforts meet expectations.
Agric4profits
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
There are numerous factors that contribute to the low productivity of animal production in various countries. One major constraint is the high population density and the competition between humans and livestock for feed resources. Additionally, there has been a one-sided development in many developing countries, where livestock breeds and numbers have significantly improved.
Agric4profits
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
In any farm business, there is always a person responsible for guiding and controlling its operations. This individual coordinates and regulates all the resources involved in the business. Besides overseeing operations, they assume responsibility for the outcomes.
Agric4profits
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
Courtship is the period in a couples relationship that precedes their engagement and marriages or the establishment of an agreed relationship of a more enduring kind. A courtship may be an informal and private matter between two people or a public affair or a formal arrangement with family approval.
Agric4profits
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
Fayol identified fourteen general principles of management. These principles are flexible and must be adapted to suit the specific needs of a given situation. They are applicable in agribusiness enterprises, just as they have been applied in manufacturing and service sectors. Read Also:Garlic: 21 Fun Facts! Key Principles of Farm Management 1.
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