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Abstract
A key element of an agenda for farm management in the 21st Century should be productivity on farms. The
gains from productivity since 1953 have been enough to offset declines in the real price of farm outputs at
least in the broadacre sector. Productivity gains will remain important to the sector in this century. For public
institutions, the focus of research and extension activities will continue to switch to the management of
natural resources. Farmers and policy makers will need to know the on-farm impacts of technologies and
policies that will effect resource stocks over many years. A challenge to farm management professionals will
be how to present this information, derived from sophisticated modelling, to farmers and policy makers. My
guess is that Malcolm’s ‘few figurings’ of a ‘few futures’ is the way to go.