Business management is the discipline of coordinating all phases of farm operation through planning. Business management is concerned with income, and so is concerned with profitability. Consideration of alternative uses of the basic resources means various productive processes must be budgeted and compared.

the principles of management are the activities that “plan, organize, and control the operations of the basic elements of [people], materials, machines, methods, money and markets, providing direction and coordination, and giving leadership to human efforts, so as to achieve the sought objectives