This book covers, in considerable detail, all the elements needed to develop a plan for your existing farm, for your next farm acquisition or for your agribusiness investment. It provides the grounds on which sound decisions can be made. If you work methodically through to the end, you will find that it is an excellent reference book that can assist you with your rural business challenges. For students of agribusiness, this book will become an essential text. It is very readable but also contains sufficient detail to satisfy the needs of a serious agribusiness scholar. As traditional farming and its associated industries struggle under the pressures of a strengthening Australian dollar, liberalisation of international markets, the challenges of corporate farming and a problematic climate, the need to understand the business of farming has become at least as important as being able to do the ‘sweat on the brow’ part.