Business tips and support

[Mandi]

I've found a few sites that offer some good farm business tips and support:

Young Farmer Loan: www.fcc-fac.ca/en/products/lending/Young_Farmer_loan_e.asp
Farm Mgmt Canada: www.farmcentre.com/resources/beginning-farmers
Whittman Consulting: www.wittmanconsulting.com/?page_id=10
How to make better family farm decisions: www.elainefroese.com/agriwebinars/how-to-make-better-family-farm-decisions/

Have you found any good tips regarding the business end of a farm?

[camkbell]

I know of a couple, heres a short document on business planning from the National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service:

attra.ncat.org/oasdfr/business_planning/lesson1_goals_skills/Business_Planning-tipsheet.pdf#search=evaluating%20a%20farm%20business

and here's a longer document called "Evaluating a Farming Enterprise"

attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/summaries/summary.php?pub=277

I also have a 40-page paper from Purdue University called Positioning the Farm Business - I'd be happy to email it to anyone interested. It talks about strategic planning and its application to the farm business.

While I don't really have a farm business to manage yet, I still find this stuff interesting, haha

Cam