The Profitable Farm - by Chris Clark & Brian Scanlon (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

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 with an open mind to business improvement, 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.

About the Author

Chris Clark is a farmer and Partner in Nethergill Associates (NA), a business management consultancy currently assisting with the conjecturing and management of future farming uncertainties in the UK and Europe. Nethergill Associates have analysed over 230 farm accounts and has advised them how to move their business towards Maximum Sustainable Output (MSO) and hence achieve maximum profitability without compromising nature. Over the past 20 years or so, Brian has run his own company as a vehicle to undertake consultancy and project development work where he has served over 70 companies across most sectors of the economy in the ?elds of strategy development, marketing, logistics, operational improvements, and new venture development. During this time, he spent a period as VP Treasury Services for JP Morgan Chase Bank in the United States.