792-210 Enterprise Management - Cropping

Credit Points

HECS Band

Coordinator

Prerequisites

Plant Production

Semester

Contact

Subject Description

The objective of this subject is to enable students to develop management programs for rainfed cereal grain production, pulse production and oilseed production. Specifically they will be able to:

• explain the structure and function of the various Australian cropping industry organisations;

• appreciate the range of production alternatives in the Australian cropping industry and the factors which influence these alternatives;

• apply their understanding of the factors which underline the management of cropping enterprises to practical situations;

• analyse and evaluate biological, industry, marketing, and physical production functions as factors affecting management decisions in the Australian cropping industry; and

• utilise their understanding of the above in making competent practical management decisions in the cropping industry.

The content includes environmental restrictions on production systems; crop and variety selection; tillage and soil preparations; rotations; fertiliser use; timeliness of operations such as spraying, sowing, fertilising, crop production and harvesting; identification of problems and appropriate responses and control measures; and product quality and management.