Planning your farm business

Funded by the USDA – National Institute for Food and Agriculture (Insert logo)

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!

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.

Your goals, your skills, your resources…Lesson 1

Why farm goals are important?Voices of the farmers:

Insert Video:http://nebeginningfarmers.org/video/farm-planning

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Why do you want to farm? What are your goals?

Whipstone Farm, Chino Valley, AZ

Determining your skills and resources?

Photo by: Rex Dufour, NCAT

Take out worksheet #2…

How do you get skills and resources? A farmers story…

Watch video…Voices of Experience “Evaluating land and

facilities for farming.” (5 minutes)

What’s next? Let’s write it down.Take out worksheet #3…

Sweet Woods (Goat ) Dairy Farm- New Mexico

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