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| Malcolm, Bill. |
| Fifty years of Australian academic literature about farm management is surveyed and reviewed chronologically and methodologically. Farm management started as a field of academic inquiry during the 1940s, and at the end of the first decade most of the major emphases which were to predominate over the ensuing decades had made their debut in the literature. Major emphases over the fifty years have been records and accounts, production economic thinking, linear programming, decision theory and systems simulation approaches. Overtime came increasing doubt about the usefulness of each of these emphases, and in the 1980s journal writings about farm management declined greatly. Much academic work about farm management during the past fifty years lacked relevance... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Farm Management. |
| Ano: 1990 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/12283 |
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| Knight, Brad; Malcolm, Bill. |
| This study uses a farm in the Victorian Mallee over the period 1998 2005 to analyse whole-farm profitability and risks of investing in Precision Agriculture and Site-Specific Crop Management systems. To answer the research questions, a model to predict yield under PA management is developed to simulate paddock and activity gross margins. Analysis is conducted that enables judgements to be formed about merit of investing in some PA technologies. The case study farm comprised 1400 hectares, with 900 hectares of cereals cropped each year. In this case, investment in Zone Management technologies did not meet the required return on capital. Using the relationship of paddock variability to profitability derived from the simulation data, in a year with median... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Farm Management. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10406 |
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| Ho, Christie K.M.; Armstrong, Dan P.; Doyle, Peter T.; Malcolm, Bill. |
| Farming systems throughout the Murray-Darling Basin are under increasing scrutiny from the perspective of ecological sustainability of farm and catchment systems. In northern Victoria, the dairy industry is a major user of water, and contributes to the environmental issues. Changes in irrigation water price, availability and policy will invariably impact on the viability of dairy farming in this region, but the diversity of dairy farm systems suggests that the impact will vary between farms. Two case study farms, a 'water reliant' farm and a 'fodder reliant' farm, were used to examine economic and social impacts of changes in water price, availability and policy. |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Dairy; Irrigation; Water; Agribusiness; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/58707 |
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| Ho, Christie K.M.; Nesseler, R.; Doyle, Peter T.; Malcolm, Bill. |
| The dairy industry in northern Victoria has been subject to rapid change in recent years, resulting in great diversity in the irrigated dairy farming systems in the region. Continuing analysis is needed of the various farming systems that may be viable in the future. This study examined possible development options for different farm systems to enable them to maintain financial viability. Four case studies, representative of different farm systems, were used. All four had options to combat the effects of declining terms of trade. However, the option most suitable for one case study may be unsuitable for another farm due to differences in resources, goals or skills. A key outcome of the study was the development of a robust approach to continually analyse... |
| Tipo: Article |
Palavras-chave: Dairy farming systems; Irrigated dairy; Farm Management. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/123142 |
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| Madden, B. J.; Malcolm, Bill. |
| The price farmers pay for farm land can be a critical determinant of the continued success or eventual failure of a farm business. A decision support model has been developed to make explicit the usually implicit assumptions about expected profitability, financing and debt servicing aspects of land purchase decisions. The model can be used to help the decision maker to identify offer prices for farm land which are probably sound and prices which are likely to be unsound. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Land Economics/Use. |
| Ano: 1996 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/12408 |
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| Deane, Paul; Malcolm, Bill. |
| Australian woolgrowers have not adopted price risk management in the last decade. This is despite a concerted effort at various times by participants in the wool industry to encourage growers to use hedging/forward selling. The explanation for the reluctance of woolgrowers to use futures market and forward pricing instruments lies not in market failure but in characteristics of wool producing farm businesses. In particular, the degree of business and financial risk and the interaction between the two helps to explain why woolgrowers do not use futures. In the context of the whole farm system, Australian woolgrowers are behaving as rational managers of wool price risk. |
| Tipo: Article |
Palavras-chave: Price risk management; Motivation for hedging; Business risk; Financial risk; Australian woolgrow; Farm Management. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/122518 |
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| Knight, Brad; Malcolm, Bill. |
| This study used information about a farm in the Victorian Mallee during the period 1998 – 2005 to analyse the profitability of investing in Precision Agriculture and Site-Specific Crop Management technology and farming systems. Two equipment guidance systems were evaluated. Both guidance systems earned more than 8 percent real return p.a. on the extra capital invested. A Real-Time Kinetic (RTK) guidance system with a precision of 2 cm and a capital cost of $50,000 was less profitable than a Sub-Metre guidance system with 20 cm accuracy and costing $20,000. Producers investing in RTK guidance technology would be well-paid to also adopt supporting management practices that enhance crop gross margins or provide other benefits. The capital cost of GPS... |
| Tipo: Article |
Palavras-chave: Precision Agriculture; GPS technology; Investment; Farm Management. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/121470 |
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| Ho, Christie K.M.; Armstrong, Dan P.; Doyle, Peter T.; Malcolm, Bill. |
| Farming systems throughout the Murray-Darling Basin are under increasing scrutiny from the perspective of ecological sustainability of farm and catchment systems. In northern Victoria, the dairy industry is a major user of water, and contributes to the environmental issues. Changes in irrigation water price, availability and policy will invariably impact on the viability of dairy farming in this region, but the diversity of dairy farm systems suggests that the impact will vary between farms. Two case study farms, a ‘water-reliant’ farm and a ‘fodder-reliant’ farm, were used to examine economic and social impacts of changes in water price, availability and policy. |
| Tipo: Article |
Palavras-chave: Water price policy; Irrigated dairy farming; Farm Management. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/123162 |
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| Tarrant, Katherine A.; Malcolm, Bill. |
| The ‘openness’ of farming systems that is the focus of this paper is ‘open to information’, in particular the way that new information from the farming systems research project, Dairy Directions, flows from research outputs to dairy farmers. Dairy Directions is a multidisciplinary research activity centred on a steering group of interested parties, mostly farmers, scientists and economists, but also drawing on extension agents, natural resource managers, water service providers, community service providers and public policy participants. The core general research question of Dairy Directions is ‘What options do farmers running different dairy farming systems have to achieve their goals in an uncertain future?’ The goals analysed by the project are... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Farm Management. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/100717 |
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| Armstrong, Dan P.; Ho, Christie K.M.; Doyle, Peter T.; Malcolm, Bill; Gibb, I.; Brown, Stuart. |
| The dairy industry in northern Victoria faced dramatic changes between 2001/02 and 2002/03. Drought resulted in a substantial decrease in availability, and subsequent increase in price, of irrigation water and supplementary feed. Most farms recorded substantial net cash flow deficits. Prior to 2002/03, a project had been established using case studies and a spreadsheet model to examine potential futures for different farm types. This approach was successfully adapted to examine drought impacts and recovery options under the vastly different prevailing circumstances. Several factors appear to have contributed to the adaptability of the approach, as follows: • The approach considered many aspects of farm management systems, but was simple enough to allow... |
| Tipo: Article |
Palavras-chave: Dairy farming systems; Drought; Farm management economics; Farm Management. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/123136 |
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| Malcolm, Bill. |
| Farm systems in Australia are open systems. The financial openness of farm systems has implications for managing farms and, thus, implications for analysing farm management decisions and farm performance. In elaborating on this theme, capital investment in agriculture is considered and key ideas about agricultural financing and implications for farm management are identified. Focussing on the economics of farm management analysis, without corresponding equivalent attention to finance, is to do half the job. |
| Tipo: Article |
Palavras-chave: Farm finance; Farm management; Capital investment in agriculture; Farm Management. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/120907 |
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| Malcolm, Bill. |
| In this paper it is argued that solving problems in farm management involves applying an appropriate balance of disciplinary knowledge. More specifically, farm management decision-making is about making choices, and the discipline of choice is economics. Thus economics is the core discipline of farm management analysis and decision-making. Modelling farm systems using the whole farm approach, with emphasis on the risky elements, can be very useful. Also enlightening is using real farm case studies to test research output. The conclusion is that bringing to bear on farm management questions a few disciplines, a few perspectives and a few figurings to explore a few futures is a useful way to go. |
| Tipo: Article |
Palavras-chave: Farm management; Farm management economics; Whole farm; Farm systems modelling; Farm management decision analysis; Farm Management. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/120918 |
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| Melsen, Monique G.; Armstrong, Dan P.; Ho, Christie K.M.; Malcolm, Bill; Doyle, Peter T.. |
| Recent analysis from surveys of dairy farms has shown that despite large increases in production, the productivity gains on these farms have been modest. Productivity gains are important for farm viability, farmers have made production gains through adoption of technologies and increases in scale. This long-term farm case study of an irrigated dairy farm over a 40-year period provides an in-depth analysis of system changes and management complexity. Detailed records of milk production, herd, farm area and infrastructure, water use, supplementary feed, and labour were collected and pasture consumption was estimated. Changes in milk production were analysed in relation to individual resources, particularly farm inputs. Increases in production were associated... |
| Tipo: Article |
Palavras-chave: Dairy farming systems; Productivity; Long-term case study; Farm production measures; Farm Management. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/122240 |
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| Harvey, Sallyann; Fisher, Bill; Larson, Kristoffer; Malcolm, Bill. |
| The Queensland Fruit Fly (QFF) — Bactrocera tryoni — poses a significant threat to horticultural production in Victoria causing losses of fruit and jeopardising access to interstate and international markets. The Victorian Government implements and largely funds an area freedom program to manage QFF. Concern about the record number of outbreaks in 2007-08 and the escalating costs of maintaining the current management regime, led the Victorian Department of Primary Industries to review the program to identify improved strategies for managing QFF. As part of this work, a benefit cost analysis (BCA) of alternative strategies has been conducted. While the BCA method is well established, in general few studies are publicly available for area freedom programs.... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: International Relations/Trade. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/59740 |
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| Malcolm, Bill. |
| Economic illiteracy is abundant in farm management analysis. Failure to understand that economics is the core discipline of farm-management analysis and failure to apply the whole-farm approach leads to wrong questions being asked and wrong answers being given. The power of economic thinking is in making sense of resource allocation questions in farm systems characterised by much complexity and powerful dynamics. The challenge for those who continue to work in farm management economics is to re-establish theoretically sound farm-management analysis based on economics as the core discipline. |
| Tipo: Article |
Palavras-chave: Farm Management; Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/118427 |
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| Malcolm, Bill; Paine, Mark. |
| Dairy Australia has delivered a program entitled DMF involving a series of activities to enhance the expertise of dairy farmers and encourage their use of expert services. A substantial investment of $5.2m (adjusted to 2005 dollars) has been made by Dairy Australia in the program. In this report, justifications for DA using farmers’ and taxpayers’ funds in this way are explored; a Social Benefit Cost Analysis has been carried out. The conclusion is that the public and industry investment in DMF is likely to have earned a return on capital that justifies the investment. |
| Tipo: Article |
Palavras-chave: Dairy extension; Benefit cost analysis; Public funding of extension; Farm Management. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/122233 |
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| Kelly, Hugh; Malcolm, Bill. |
| Models of technical parts of farm systems have proliferated over the past decade. In this paper, the difference between the decision-information deriving from the farm management economic analysis that is included in a technical systems model, and the results derived from analysing the technical information that comes out of the model using standard farm management tools, is demonstrated, using case studies. In essence the argument of this paper is that in much systems simulation work provides sound technical coefficients about the operation of a farming system, which can then form the basis of, and be used in, whole farm management analyses. It is sufficient, to provide these coefficients without the systems model itself linking to some half-baked... |
| Tipo: Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Farm Management. |
| Ano: 1999 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/123826 |
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