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Discover New Ways to Grow Your Farm Business with Our Final Block of Online Courses
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The current season of online courses is well underway, and our fourth and final block of courses will start live instruction at the end of February. With courses on farm business, grazing management, woodlots and more, this is a great opportunity to learn before the growing season begins. Our suite of online courses is offered…
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In Camden, a Hot Sauce is Helping Young Urban Entrepreneurs Fight Poverty
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A teen-focused entrepreneurial program in Southern NJ offers job training and education By Suzanne Cope Last fall, a half-dozen teenagers from the Southern New Jersey city of Camden brought hot peppers they’d grown in an urban garden to a rented industrial kitchen. Donning latex gloves, they de-seeded and chopped the chilies before adding them to…
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Interested in Ranching for Profit? Potential Business School Coming to New England.
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Ranch Management Consultants (RMC) are currently gauging interest to hold the business school of ranching in New England. If interested, take this four question survey: http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07efe2mlf1jh6nkn0a/a014zjjq5r85v/questions Information on the school: RMC has a long, successful track record of equipping ranchers like you with the tools and insights to transform your ranch into a sustainable business. The Ranching…
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How to Write a Custom Grazing Contract
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Strong, written contracts can prevent some of the Boneheaded Business Blunders I made in my early years of ranching. My previous two articles have covered every brutally specific detail that I should have included in my former land lease contracts. This month I’m running down everything that needs to be in a custom grazing contract.…
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New York State Winery? Sign up for Winery Benchmarks Program
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The sign-up period for Farm Credit East’s annual Winery Benchmarks program is now open! The Winery Benchmarks is a unique program for Northeast wineries to measure their businesses against wine industry peers. The program is now accepting registrations for the 2018 benchmark. The program offers participants two report options: the Management Review report or an Executive…
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Keeping Records: Enterprise Analysis and Class Tracking With Quick Books™
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Identify the parts of your business that are working or not working so that you can increase profitability. Enterprise analysis….this is exciting stuff. This past year University of Vermont Extension Farm Viability in partnership with Vermont Farm Viability and The Northeast Center for Risk Management Education is closing up a series of mini-grants focused on…








