Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness - Tapa blanda

Agriculture is front page news. On any given day we read of large grain or fiber sales, food shortages or surpluses, farm strikes, meat boycotts, embargoes or subsidies. These events have a significant impact on human beings, both domestically and internationally and can be understood and predicted with sound training in agricultural economics or agribusiness, especially when supplemented by a good background in technical agriculture. This book explores the structure and organization of agriculture and then discusses basic economics principles as they apply to agriculture. Principles of economics are used to demonstrate to the student that theory makes reality more understandable. Theory allows us to abstract from the workaday world in order to simplify real world problems so they can be examined and explained.