Today's food & agribusiness managers operate in a rapidly changing highly volatile international high technology consumer-focused world Agribusiness Management helps prepare students & managers for a successful career in this new world of food & fiber production & marketing This text uses four specific approaches to help readers develop & enhance their capabilities as agribusiness managers First it offers a contemporary focus that reflects the issues that agribusiness managers face today & are likely to face tomorrow Second the book presents conceptual material in a pragmatic way with illustrations & examples that will help the reader understand how a specific concept works in practice Third the book has a decision-making emphasis providing contemporary tools that readers will find useful when making decisions in the contemporary business environment Finally Agribusiness Management offers a pertinent set of discussion questions & case studies that will allow the reader to apply the material covered in real-world situations This fifth edition of Agribusiness Management has been updated throughout & continues to provide students & adult learners with an essential understanding of what it takes to be a successful agribusiness manager in today's rapidly evolving highly unpredictable marketplace ...

The 17th Century Was Not an Easy Time to be a Farmer The Agricola base game is a revised edition of Uwe Rosenberg’s celebrated classic The game is designed for 1-4 players features enhanced all-wood components & a card selection from the base game as well as its expansions revised & updated for this edition Players begin the game with two family members & can grow their families over the course of the game This allows them more actions but remember you have to grow more food to feed your family as it grows! Feeding your family is a special kind of challenge & players will plant grain & vegetables while supplementing their food supply with sheep wild boar & cattle Guide your family to wealth health & prosperity & you will win the game! Minimum Players 1 Maximum Players 4 Minimum Time 30 Maximum Time 120 Minimum Age 12 Game Type St&-Alone ...

Agricola All Creatures Big & Small Big Box is a free-standing version of Agricola designed for two players & focused exclusively on the animal breeding aspect of the game
- goodbye plows & vegetables! In the game you become an animal breeder & have to breed horses pigs cows & sheep & try to make the most of one&s enclosures Players start with a 3x 2 playing board that can be expanded during the game to provide more space for the animals The players have 16 possible actions & utilize three at a time in each of the 8 rounds The players who get the most points by fitting breeding & building buildings will be the winner The Big Box contains the base game as well as the 2 extensions More Buildings Big & Small & Even More Buildings Big & Small All components are shaped like animals humans & crops No of Players 2 Duration 30 minutes Min Age 10
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Agricola Green Expansion is both an upgrade kit for the revised edition of Agricola as well as an expansion This item contains five pre-painted miniatures with colored accents that can replace one set of wooden player pieces from the base game In addition it contains twenty new cards for Agricola including some that are exclusive to this expansion Contents 11 New Occupation Cards 9 Minor Improvement Cards 5 Figures Ages 12 Players 1-4 Game Length 90 minutes ...

The Agricola is both a portrait of Julius Agricola
- the most famous governor of Roman Britain & Tacitus' well-loved & respected
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Please note this is the revised edition & is not compatible with older versions of the base game Agricola Farmers of the Moor is the first big expansion for Agricola This expansion replaces the minor improvements & the occupations of the base game with a large set of new improvements & adds a number of new features Horses are introduced as a new type of animal & your family members now cost fuel in addition to food You can get this fuel by chopping down the forests on your farmyard or by harvesting peat This is not a complete game you need Agricola to play this expansion set The base game of Agricola is required to play this expansion Adds depth & complexity to the original game
Includes: several major improvements & new special actions Plenty of replay value 1-5 players
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In Agricola you&re a farmer in a wooden shack with your spouse & little else On a turn you get to take only two actions one for you & one for the spouse from all the possibilities you&ll find on a farm collecting resources; building meadows; & so on You might think about having kids in order to get more work accomplished but first you need to expand your house & what are you going to feed all the little rugrats? Agricola is a turn-based game There are 14 game rounds occurring in 6 stages with a Harvest at the end of each stage (after Rounds 4 7 9 11 13 & 14) Each player starts with two meeples that can each take an action per round There are multiple options & while the game progresses you&ll have more each round a (fixed) additional option becomes available Each action can be taken by only one player each round so it&s important to do some things with high preference In comparison with the family game of the predecessor much has changed the new action each round is fixed & the game has been simplified by removing stone & vegetables Similar to Agricola Die Bauern und das liebe Vieh there are now buildings (replacing the major improvements) that score points for leftover resources at the end of the game Also there are no building restrictions (nor player boards) & finally there are no negative points or point limits anymore each player simply scores for all he has achieved Players 1-4 Playing time 45 minutes Ages 8 ...

Agricola Artifex Deck contains 120 occupation & minor improvement cards for use with the revised edition of Agricola Please note
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Agricola Corbarius Deck expands Wiz Kids C-Deck from 60 to 168 occupation & minor improvement cards ...

Like the Artifex Bubulcus & Corbarius decks the Dulcinaria deck contains 120 cards for Agricola almost all of which have never been published before It is the fourth self- contained deck for the revised Agricola reprint of 2016 & can also be played with older editions of Agricola although with slight drawbacks It can be played on its own with the base game or in combinations with any or all other expansions ...