Planning for a Successful Farming Business

Reader Contribution by Robert White
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I’m sure you’ve heard these adages before, “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail,” and “If you aim for nothing, you will hit it every time.”

Several of our recent Growing Farmers workshops have been about planning, creating a business plan, a risk management plan, and a crop production plan, to name a few. The practical action oriented side of me says, just let me at the dirt and let me get to planting but I know these other elements are essential and time well spent. 

One of the first planning items that we worked on was developing a business plan. It seems that this is key especially when it comes to applying for loans or just gauging from year to year how you are doing on reaching your goals. Were you a success or do you need to re-focus and re-strategize?

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