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Planning your farm business

Planning your farm business. Funded by the USDA – National Institute for Food and Agriculture (Insert logo). Planning for your farm business Module Goals. Develop a list of goals for your farm business. Learn basic farm marketing principles Develop a marketing plan for your farm.

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Planning your farm business

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  1. Planning your farm business Funded by the USDA – National Institute for Food and Agriculture (Insert logo)

  2. Planning for your farm businessModule Goals • Develop a list of goals for your farm business. • Learn basic farm marketing principles • Develop a marketing plan for your farm. • Learn basic record keeping tools to keep your farm profitable. • Learn the tool you will need to start a farm business. • Walk away with a basic business plan for your farm!

  3. What you need to know before you start this module and your farm business… • Basic English skills • Basic computer skills • Some understanding of business management in the United States.

  4. Your goals, your skills, your resources…Lesson 1

  5. Why farm goals are important?Voices of the farmers: Insert Video: http://nebeginningfarmers.org/video/farm-planning/

  6. Why do you want to farm? What are your goals? Whipstone Farm, Chino Valley, AZ

  7. Determining your skills and resources? Take out worksheet #2… Photo by: Rex Dufour, NCAT

  8. How do you get skills and resources? A farmers story… Watch video… Voices of Experience “Evaluating land and facilities for farming.” (5 minutes)

  9. What’s next? Let’s write it down. Take out worksheet #3… Sweet Woods (Goat ) Dairy Farm- New Mexico

  10. Tying it all together…Use worksheets #3 & #4:

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