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Anticipating Your Business Environment

Learn the essential functions of a cooperative board, key questions to ask, and challenges to anticipate in the business environment. Position your cooperative for future success by setting strategic goals and analyzing industry trends.

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Anticipating Your Business Environment

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  1. Anticipating Your Business Environment Phil Kenkel Bill Fitzwater Cooperative Chair

  2. Important Functions of the Board • Setting Strategic Goals • Making long term financial commitments • Positioning the Cooperative for the Future

  3. Questions Board Members Should be Asking • Do we have an up-to-date strategic plan? • What forces will drive our industry over the next 5 years? • Are we looking at external trends and analyzing opportunities and threats? • Are we anticipating the needs of our future customers and positioning the cooperative to meet future needs? • Does the cooperative have the size and scope to compete?- if not what are we doing about it?

  4. Key Questions Continued • How much risk exposure does the cooperative have from fertilizer and fuel prices • Are we using the most efficient warehousing and delivery system? • What is being done to minimize the cost of inventories while assuring we can still service our customers needs on a timely basis?

  5. Managers and Directors List of Key Challenges • Fuel and Fertilizer Prices • Large Producers By-passing the Cooperative • Human Resource Issues/Costs • Controlling Costs • Changing Crop Patterns

  6. Anticipating Your Future Business Environment • Identify major factors impacting your business • Understand how these factors will impact your members • Analyze the impact on the cooperative • Analyze risks and develop risk control strategies • Position the Cooperative for the Future

  7. Today We Will Consider • Producer response to fuel and fertilizer prices • Forecast alternative crop adoption • Fuel and Fertilizer Outlook • Electricity cost control strategies • Minimum tillage • Fuel and fertilizer price impacts on a typical cooperative

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