Farmer Business Planning Session

Grow Tomatoes By Leveraging New Technology (And Best Practices!)

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One of the objectives of our Track #2 educational channel for our professional farmer and rancher community is to provide an educational on-ramp for those members who are just getting started, or for those pro’s who want to make great leaps and bounds into new levels of production, thinking, measuring / data analytics, etc.

This article suggests a basic business planning format which you can run with for your own business. We encourage you to also think out of the box on this one to see if you would like to offer a formal educational course on this and many other types of practices. This ag content is ideal for all of us as we embrace new practices which cut costs, boost yields, etc.

This article also attempts to have you focus on a key crop to keep the strategy and processes confined to as narrow an area as possible before broadening into other produce areas which interest you. For instance, let’s say that you would like to open a micro-green grow operation. That would be very complementary and narrow in scope to achieve success, early-on.

Before we launch forward, it’s important to note that for any and all business operations that you take on, it is imperative to understand how to conduct a risk assessment for the target business and to mitigate the risks by…