Lecture I: Introduction to Agricultural Finance
Charles B. Moss and Michael A. Gunderson
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and Resource Economics Department University of Florida
January 7, 2012
Charles B. Moss and Michael A. Gunderson
Lecture I: Introduction to Agricultural Finance
Table of Contents Defining Agricultural Finance Finance Versus Financial Management
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Defining Agricultural Finance What is Agricultural Finance? Economics and Agricultural Economics Defining Finance Defining Agricultural Finance
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Finance Versus Financial Management
Charles B. Moss and Michael A. Gunderson
Lecture I: Introduction to Agricultural Finance
Table of Contents Defining Agricultural Finance Finance Versus Financial Management
What is Agricultural Finance? Economics and Agricultural Economics Defining Finance Defining Agricultural Finance
Defining Agricultural Finance?
What is Agricultural Finance?
Agricultural finance is typically taught in agricultural economics or agribusiness departments in colleges of agriculture. Agricultural finance is then defined somehow based on
Economics Finance Agriculture
Charles B. Moss and Michael A. Gunderson
Lecture I: Introduction to Agricultural Finance
Table of Contents Defining Agricultural Finance Finance Versus Financial Management
What is Agricultural Finance? Economics and Agricultural Economics Defining Finance Defining Agricultural Finance
Economics and Agricultural Economics
Following Becker economics is the study of the allocation of scarce resources to meet unlimited and competing human wants and desires. Becker has used economic theory to study such factors as marriage, fertility, and even suicide. Agricultural economist reduce the scope of their concer to questions involving agriculture (including production decisions, implications of agricultural policy, and agricultural trade), natural resources, and