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MY STEP UP EXPERIENCE Arden Esqueda

MY STEP UP EXPERIENCE Arden Esqueda. Duck Creek F arm. Duck Creek Farm. Mentors - John Wilcox and Sue Earle. The 2012 Duck C reek F arm T eam. Duck Creek Farm. Greenhouse #1 and lower plot. Inside greenhouse #1. D uck Creek Farm. Greenhouse #2. Our ‘Cafeteria’. Duck Creek Farm.

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MY STEP UP EXPERIENCE Arden Esqueda

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  1. MY STEP UP EXPERIENCE Arden Esqueda

  2. Duck Creek Farm Duck Creek Farm

  3. Mentors - John Wilcox and Sue Earle

  4. The 2012 Duck Creek Farm Team

  5. Duck Creek Farm Greenhouse #1 and lower plot Inside greenhouse #1

  6. Duck Creek Farm Greenhouse #2 Our ‘Cafeteria’

  7. Duck Creek Farm

  8. Duck Creek Farm

  9. Objectives • Objective #1: Business Management Practices • If business management is an important success factor for farming operations, to what extent are these business management practices being implements? • Objective #2: Goals of the farm operation • If farmers’ decisions are not always or ever necessarily aimed at the unique goal of profit, what other goals influence decisions making at the farm-level? • How do we account for them when analyzing farm businesses? • Objective #3: Role of Small Farms • Small and medium farms represent only a small percentage of agricultural production in Canada, what is the role of small and medium farms in modern agriculture?

  10. Business management is an important success factor for farming operations Source: FMC – 2020 Planning for the Business Management Needs of Canadian Farmers

  11. Farm Business Management

  12. Business Assessment

  13. Marketing

  14. Succession and Business Agreements

  15. Human Resources

  16. Food Safety and Biosecurity

  17. Environment

  18. Key Findings • Regardless of size, all farms are faced with the same farm management issues and challenges, however, large farms can specialize and/or call on external experts for help. • These expertise can be cost prohibitive for small farms. • Given their limited time and resources, small and medium farms struggle to meet/address all of the farm management issues on their farm. • Farmers’ have a broad set of goals that motivate the business management decisions made on the farm.

  19. Other Lesson Learned…… Community Involvement Vast Network Minimizing Environmental Footprint Permaculture Retirement/Lifestyle Farming Consumer Education Generosity Friendship Food Security Environmental Stewardship Repurposing Preservation of Genetic Diversity Farm-level Innovation Compassion Organic Farming Product Innovation Providers of public good

  20. Thank You!

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