Animal Enterprise Analysis

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Evaluating livestock operations within and across enterprises has become a vital skill to being profitable today. The nexus of financial performance and production management is the catalyst to profitable and sustainable operations. This requires the skillset and digital fluency to evaluate and interpret whole farm and enterprise analyses. Throughout the course students will investigate interactions of key livestock enterprise management practices with enterprise and whole farm finances; utilize the information provided in the laboratory sessions to interpret farm financial reports and develop well-written reports and to further understand information for a livestock farm operation; evaluate and assess financial data from various livestock enterprises and make sound recommendations for management practices improvements; develop digital fluency skills for understanding financial reports and their influence on management concepts for improving farm practices and profits.