Creating A Business Plan

Creating A Business Plan

Washington Ag Today is presented by AMMO. I’m Lacy Gray

Over the last several weeks AMMO has offered a series of workshops geared towards helping growers and producers make better informed decisions on farm management, covering such topics as Department of Transportation regulations, marketing strategies, farm succession, and family business communications. On February 25 - 28 the AMMO workshop “Your Business Plan: A Road Map to Your Future” will help producers bring all prior workshop information together. Dave Specht, Management Consultant and Founder and President of “Advising Generations”, and Tim Cobb, Farm Manager with Sharp and Hatley Farm Management will be conducting the workshops. Specht talks about what the workshop sessions will entail.

SPECHT: We will be highlighting the need for a working business plan for ag producers. We’ll have families get to some of their goals for their operation and also for their family, and we’ll work those into actionable plans. All these producers are very capable and have most of the answers, it’s just organizing them and then focusing on what they need to do to get to those ends and those goals.

Cobb talks about what attendees can hope to take away from the workshop.

COBB: The main thing that we hope that they take away from this workshop is a desire to actually write something down, for themselves and for those that work with them. We would like them to be better decision makers based on their data. Our hope would be that they would be profitable. Even the smallest plans will be reasonable to see the differences fairly quickly.

For workshop locations and information visit AMMO’s website at lcammo.org. AMMO is a program of the Washington Association of Wheat Growers.

That’s Washington Ag Today presented by AMMO. I’m Lacy Gray on the Ag Information Network.