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Farm Power and Machinery Management

Tenth Edition

Donnell Hunt

Mechanization is an integral part of all North American farms. While farm machinery has improved the efficiency of farming dramatically over the years, the costs of owning and operating machinery can be excessive. Proper management and optimization of mechanized equipment are essential for reducing costs and maximizing profits. Farm Power and Machinery Management analyzes the factors that comprise machinery management, explains the functions of the various machines and mechanisms as they affect economic operation, and offers contemporary approaches and procedures for making management decisions.

The authoritative coverage of management principles and the machinery-operating details make this text an outstanding choice for courses in agricultural education, agricultural mechanization, agricultural business, and agricultural engineering. An understanding of agricultural practices, college algebra, and trigonometry are adequate preparation for using this text. Abundant figures, photographs, and charts, along with laboratory exercises that amplify and fix the concepts of farm machinery management in the reader’s mind, enhance the text’s effectiveness for students, as well as for farmers, farm operators, and farm managers.

$47.95 list, 368 pages

10-digit ISBN: 1-57766-573-2

13-digit ISBN: 978-157766-573-1

© 2001

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Table of Contents

Part I. ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE

1. Machine Performance

2. Power Performance

3. Operator Performance

Part II. Costs

4. Cost Determination

Part III. OPERATIONS

5. Tillage

6. Seedbed Preparation

7. Cultivation

8. Seeding Machines

9. Chemical Application

10. Grain Harvesting

11. Forage Harvesting

12. Farm Processing

13. Materials Handling

14. Special Crop Machines

Part IV. POWER

15. The Farm Tractor

Part V. EQUIPMENT SELECTION

16. Machinery Selection

17. Power Selection

18. Used Equipment

Part VI. LABORATORY EXERCISES