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Future Farm Management Education in Australia

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  • Chudleigh, John W.

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Over the last fifty years, farm management education has moved from having principally a technical emphasis to having a far greater financial emphasis. Farm management research and publication, however, has decreased significantly since the 1970’s. The relevance of current farm management education is obviously not widely accepted by practising farmers, as only 11.7% of new entrants into farming appear to have a formal qualification in agriculture. Emerging challenges to farm managers include society’s growing environmental awareness, the change from a commodity based to a product based agriculture and the management of increasing risk in finance and marketing. Farm Management education needs to respond to these challenges by creating more versatile and responsive graduates with a broader management understanding. By concentrating on the individual’s management approaches and understanding, as well as appropriate altitudinal development, future managers should be better able to cope with the increasingly complex and dynamic challenges of farm management. The University of New England - Orange Agricultural College has commenced the development of a new approach to management education which will have significant benefits to the future discipline of farm management itself.

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  • Chudleigh, John W., 1991. "Future Farm Management Education in Australia," 8th Congress, New Zealand, 4-9 February 1991 346172, International Farm Management Association.
  • Handle: RePEc:ags:ifma91:346172
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.346172
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