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Farm power and machinery management / Donnell Hunt, David Wilson.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: Long Grove, Illinois : Waveland Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Edition: Eleventh editionDescription: vii, 360 pages : illustrations ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781478626961
  • 1478626968
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • S675 .H83 2016
Contents:
1. Machine performance 2. Power performance 3. Operator performance 4. Cost determination 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 15. The farm tractor 16. Machinery selection 17. Power selection 18. Used equipment Laboratory exercises.
Summary: The latest, extensively updated edition of Farm Power and Machinery Management continues the tradition of providing students, farmers, farm operators, and farm managers with comprehensive information on how to properly manage and optimize the use of mechanized equipment to reduce costs and maximize profits. This full-featured text 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 current 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 problems and laboratory exercises, reinforce the applicability of significant concepts, thereby empowering readers to become successful farm machinery managers and operators.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks S675 .H83 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001483386

Includes index.

1. Machine performance 2. Power performance 3. Operator performance 4. Cost determination 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 15. The farm tractor 16. Machinery selection 17. Power selection 18. Used equipment Laboratory exercises.

The latest, extensively updated edition of Farm Power and Machinery Management continues the tradition of providing students, farmers, farm operators, and farm managers with comprehensive information on how to properly manage and optimize the use of mechanized equipment to reduce costs and maximize profits. This full-featured text 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 current 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 problems and laboratory exercises, reinforce the applicability of significant concepts, thereby empowering readers to become successful farm machinery managers and operators.

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