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Rural System, Inc. is a for-profit conglomerate providing proprietary advanced plans, management services, and diverse enterprises for large rural lands and waters of absentee owners. It recruits clusters of private lands, analyzes them well (GIS, etc.), prepares an optimum prescription (RRx), implements it, and markets the services, opportunities, and products of the lands in the region. Work moves beyond production from the soil to a system of lasting profits.
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Rural Revolution
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‣ Urbanization and emigration
‣ High agricultural energy costs
‣ Land un-tended
‣ Un-employment
PROBLEM
Rural problems:
A for-profit enterprise for intensively managing
clusters of lands of absentee owners
Rural System
SOLUTION
Profitable, optimized land management
BUSINESS MODEL
A. Rural lands are under contract from absentee owners
B. Managed “clusters” achieve economies of scale
C. Prescription for optimization is generated by expert system RRx
D. Prescription-based enterprises are launched and developed
E. Profits result for enterprises, employees, Rural System, and investors
A unified computer-aided system
THE MAGIC
Farming + Businesses + Assistants
= Profits for Owners and Us
Diversity: Year-round
Economies of scale: Long-term
RRx
THE MAGIC - RRx
GIS with GPS in a Prescription System
A. State to county
B. Counties with a point
C. Property with map cells
D. Property with select map cells for a crop
E. Prescription – a Web-based document unique to each property
THE MAGIC - RRx
THE MAGIC - RRx
THE MAGIC - RRx
THE MAGIC - RRx
‣ Recruitment of affiliates
‣ Conventional agricultural marketing with adequate scale
‣ Social media marketing including niche markets: localism, natural and organic farm produce, “going green”
MARKETING
Targets: Land Owners and Consumers
‣ Classical Farming
‣ Agencies
‣ Preservationists
‣ Local Growers
Competition
‣ Robert H. Giles, Jr., Founder
‣ Anne Giles Clelland, Handshake Media
‣ David Bradshaw, InteractiveGIS,
Developer of RRx
‣ Ken Maready, Corporate Attorney
‣ VT KnowledgeWorks
TEAM
‣ Year 1: Complete software
Develop staff training program Begin membership drive Recruit owners Recruit staff Secure basic equipment
‣ Year 2: Begin operation
‣ Year 3: 5 enterprises in operation
MILESTONES
‣Profitability in year 5
TIMELINE
TIMELINE
Profitable, engaged for the right reasons,
expanding cautiously into 100 other small
enterprises, enhancing and tending more and more
of the private lands of the eastern US
for you, for the long run.
SUMMARY
Rural System is:
Rural Systemwww.ruralsystem.com
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