Intro to Farm Financials
This workshop will provide an introduction to the tools for understanding the financial part of your farm business. We will explore some simple and free tools that can help any farm start to use their financial information to make decisions. Some of the tools are balance sheet, income statement, cash flow budgeting, enterprise budgeting, and partial budget analysis. We will explore some tools available for free to develop these documents and analysis through our model managed grazing beef farm.
Course #64135
Cost: $139
Fridays, 1:00 pm-3:00 pm, 1/18-2/8
Portage Campus
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Farm Financial Analysis
This course provides best practices and business plan structures to help you utilize your business plan to better manage and grow your operation. Evaluate your financial records against your business plan to calculate your current financial position, needed expenditures, and growth capacity. You will assess your risk and risk management strategies, develop marketing plans, create short-term goals and long-term projections to spur growth and success.
Course #64396
Cost: $139
Fridays, 1:00 pm-3:30 pm, 2/15-3/8
Portage Campus
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Developing Farm-to-Table Supplier Relationships
Learn how to establish and foster relationships between farm-to-table producers and end users like restaurants, institutions, grocery stores and customers. This workshop will help you overcome some of the challenges of setting up and maintaining purchasing relationships.
Join us for a panel discussion with farmers, processors and buyers about building strong networks. Then hear about some partnerships and enjoy a chef/farmer collaborated meal.
This workshop will be scheduled in Spring of 2019. Please check back for details.