Profitable & Healthy Farm Businesses
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Farm Pulse: Crop Insurance and Grain Marketing
An online course for farmers interested in learning the importance of risk management, crop insurance, and grain marketing
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Becoming the Employer of Choice
A four week course mixing self-study with instructor-led discussion groups for farm managers looking to improve their farm’s employee engagement
Cultivating Your Farms Future
Wisconsin Extension has developed an interactive program, Cultivating Your Farm’s Future and a corresponding workbook that provides tools and resources for producers to begin the succession planning process.
Farm Pulse Financial Management & Analysis
A self-paced online course for farmers interested in learning how to use farm financials to explore their farm business decisions
Certified Farm Succession Coordinator Training
The UW-Madison Division of Extension in collaboration with the International Farm Transition Network (IFTN), offers the Certified Farm Succession Coordinator Training.
Getting Started with Your Food or Farm Business
Our weekly video series will give you the skills and connections you need to get started with your food business.
Navigating Your Ag Business: From Stress to Success
An online course designed to support farm businesses to make decisions, take action to move their farms forward, and reduce the farm members’ stress
Wisconsin Beginning Farmer Resource Guide
Designed as a road map, this guide walks beginning farmers through a variety of resources available to support them through their journey of starting an agriculture operation, farm, or food business. Print copies are available at your local USDA service center.
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Identifying Factors of a Grain Marketing Plan
There are four major factors that influence a grain marketing plan. These are personal feelings and attitudes about marketing, the financial needs of the farm business, seasonal price patterns, and the current price outlook. Personal feelings and attitudes about marketing The first factor is your personal feelings and attitudes about marketing. Each farmer will differ […]
Defining a Grain Marketing Plan
Most farmers develop excellent crop production plans each year, including strategies for weed control, fertilization, tillage, and match these practices with financial resources. A grain marketing plan identifies a farmer’s specific price objectives as the production and/or storage season progresses. The marketing plan identifies strategies available to achieve the specific price objectives. Like successful production […]
Fixed vs Variable Costs of Farming
Fixed costs are those expenses that occur regardless if we grow a crop or not. Variable costs are those cash expenses needed to grow, harvest and store a crop
Using the Crop Enterprise Budget Tool
The Crop Enterprise Budget Tool spreadsheet developed by the Division of Extension at UW-Madison provides a straightforward method to arrive at a cost of production for crops on a per acre and per bushel basis.
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The Extension Farm Management Program partners with the agriculture community to develop research-based, culturally responsive educational information, resources and tools that inform decisions for profitable, healthy farm businesses.
Contact our Extension Farm Management team at farms@extension.wisc.edu