AGEC 342: Farm and Agribusiness Management

This course applies production economics principles to farm and agribusiness operations. These includes economic input-output principles, financial management and profit maximization. The goal of the curriculum is to help students understand production economics concepts based on microeconomics principles. Secondly, these production economics concepts will be applied to farm/firm management, and decision making.  The concepts include production, cost, and profit maximization theory. Empirical data applications will also be conducted in class. Knowledge of Microsoft excel will be an asset for this class.