Growing Your Farm Business Workshop
If you've been in business for 5 years or more, you're ready to revisit your business plan and strategy to make sure you're growing in the right direction. In this 6-week course, we discuss the new skills needed to be a better manager; and give you tools to set you up for success.
Opportunity Assessment Tool
A common challenge that farmers face is whether to sell wholesale or retail. If you sell wholesale, you typically charge a lower unit price (say, $3/pound for lettuce vs. $6/pound retail). But it takes less time and expense to sell wholesale. How do you decide if the lower price is worth it?
With this tool, you can evaluate the opportunity cost of selling through different sales channels with different pricing structures.
Growth Strategy Workshop for Farm Businesses
If you've been in business for 5 years or more, you're ready to revision your business and your growth strategy. Join us this 8 session class where we'll review your past successes and create a vision for your future growth. This workshop delves deep into numbers adn marketing strategy to give you a comprehensive plan for growth.
Scenario Planning
This excel template illustrates how you can layout different scenarios so that you can evaluate new and different opportunities. As you consider your own business opportunities, you will likely need a more robust spreadsheet; and you can use this template as a reference for how you want to create your own template. To watch the Scenario Planning webinar associated with this template, click here. To learn how to create your own template, you can watch this webinar.