Building a Profitable Farm Website – Charlotte Smith
This course guides farmers through the essential steps of creating a website that effectively engages customers, builds an email list, and drives sales. By understanding website strategy, customer focus, and content optimization, participants will learn how to transform their farm websites into essential business tools.
Business, Legal and Tax Implications of Succession Planning | Stock and Leader
This course provides an in-depth look at the essentials of legal farm succession planning, presented by Darlene Livingston and Attorney Jody Leighty. Through real-life insights, explore the best approaches to initiate family discussions, organize assets, and develop a feasible succession plan. The course also covers key legal structures, tax implications, and long-term planning essentials to ensure a seamless and legally sound transition of the family farm to the next generation.
Business Plan Template
Getting a loan for your agricultural business — no matter the size or scope — means asking the lender to have faith in your ability to manage a full-fledged operation and your finances in a healthy way. The best way to prove that is by coming prepared with a farm business plan proposal.
Fruit and Vegetable Marketing for Small-Scale and Part-Time Growers
Marketing is important to all farm enterprises, regardless of size.
Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)
The Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences is helping produce growers, food processors, and feed manufacturers prepare for new regulatory standards required under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) of 2011.
Beginning Farmer: Supporting the Next Generation of Farmers
The beginning farmer program is a state-wide initiative to support a next generation of producers from diverse backgrounds.
Food for Profit: Business Planning
Before starting your new food business, you need a clear vision of how you want your business to operate, such as how it will be managed, marketed, and financed, and how you expect it to perform in the future.
Developing a Business Plan
An important task in starting a new venture is to develop a business plan, which is a “road map” to guide the future of a business or venture.
Business Exit Strategy
As you begin the business transition process, learn steps to take to make financial and personal decisions, including to sell or liquidate your business.
Business Transitions: Family Farm and Business Succession Planning
Learn what to consider and how to communicate about succession, retirement, and estate planning; property transfers; and avoiding unnecessary taxes and costs.