Completed Project Report


Planning for Profit: Business Management Training for Farmers and Ranchers in Southern Oregon

  • Award Amount: $30,000
  • Regional Center: Western Extension Risk Management Education Center
  • Grant Program: 2004 Competitive Grant Program
  • Project Director:
  • Email: visher@yolo.com
  • Organization: Farm and Agriculture Collaborative Training Systems (FACTS)

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Project Overview

FACTS will deliver a ten week long (30 hours) course in Roseburg Or. for 15 to 25 farmers, ranchers, and private timberland managers.

Sessions often include a local guest speaker. Instructors will be available for individual counseling outside of class time. FACTS will support the class with a proven curricula and extensive handouts and examples that are tailored to reflect local and current conditions.

These are the session titles; Family Farm Values and Farming Vision, Strategic Planning for a Sustainable Future, Regulatory and Legal Risk Management, Management Skills and Risk Management Assessment, Marketing from the Basics to the Alternatives, Budgets, Cashflows, and Alternative Enterprises and Enterprise Budgets, Financial statements – Profit and Loss Statements and Balance Sheets, Finance Options, Estate and Succession Planning

FACTS courses are:
• Family centered
• Regionally adapted
• Comprehensive
• Local capacity building
• One on one assistive
• Community based

Number of Participants: 26

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