Poznań, Poland

Animal Production Management

Master's
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⇑Animal Production Management at UPP

Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: economy and administration
Kind of studies: full-time studies
University website: puls.edu.pl/en

⇑Test: Is Animal Production Management the right fit for you?

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10 questions · two minutes

1. You’re asked to cut feed costs on a large livestock farm without hurting productivity. Where do you start?

2. Herd records show fertility slowly dropping over several months. What do you do?

3. New, stricter animal welfare requirements are coming in. How do you see them?

4. A serious animal disease has been reported in farms nearby. How do you react?

5. The programme is taught in English, and your classmates are agricultural graduates from different countries, used to very different farming systems. How does that sound?

6. Two members of your farm team keep clashing over shifts and duties. What do you do?

7. A supplier offers sensors that track each animal’s activity, rumination and health. What’s your reaction?

8. Neighbours complain about smells and the farm must reduce its environmental impact. How do you respond?

9. Milk or meat prices are swinging sharply from month to month. How do you handle it?

10. What motivates you most to pursue a Master’s degree in Animal Production Management?

⇑Definitions and quotes

Animal
Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia. With few exceptions, animals consume organic material, breathe oxygen, are able to move, reproduce sexually, and grow from a hollow sphere of cells, the blastula, during embryonic development. Over 1.5 million living animal species have been described—of which around 1 million are insects—but it has been estimated there are over 7 million animal species in total. Animals range in length from 8.5 millionths of a metre to 33.6 metres (110 ft) and have complex interactions with each other and their environments, forming intricate food webs. The study of animals is called zoology.
Management
Management (or managing) is the administration of an organization, whether it is a business, a not-for-profit organization, or government body. Management includes the activities of setting the strategy of an organization and coordinating the efforts of its employees (or of volunteers) to accomplish its objectives through the application of available resources, such as financial, natural, technological, and human resources. The term "management" may also refer to those people who manage an organization.
Production
Production for sale in a market in which the object is to realize the maximum profit is the essential feature of a capitalist world-economy. In such a system production is constantly expanded as long as further production is profitable, and men constantly innovate new ways of producing things that will expand the profit margin.
Immanuel Wallerstein (1979) The Capitalist World-Economy. p. 15.
Production
But if capitalism had built up science as a productive force, the very character of the new mode of production was serving to make capitalism itself unnecessary.
John Desmond Bernal (1959) Marx and Science. p. 39.
Management
Poorly managed corporations, disorganized businesses, and badly led service agencies experience crisis daily and most will eventually fail. In contrast, the danger is to well organized, smooth running institutions that may not recognize a building crisis. Too often, sound organizations rely on their normal modus operandi to pull them through a crisis. It might. But at what cost? And what if it does not pull them through?
Wheeler L. Baker, Crisis Management: A Model for Managers (1993), p. 6
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