Cultivating Success

Do you have a business plan for your ag operation that needs some updating? A new program by WSU Snohomish County Extension will help according to Kate Halstead.

HALSTEAD: We created an 8-week course so it's a little shorter than the other ones but we go into a lot of depth and bring in a lot of experts to help folks look at the plan that they've got, see hat they would like to change, see what change looks like and the start making that happen. It's all about, you've got it going and maybe you've been at it for a long time and need to think about looking at some other things or just spruce things up

Too many times the head of house will have the business plan either in their head or keep it to themselves.

HALSTEAD: It really seems to help everybody involved because rarely is a farm a one person operation. Almost inevitably there's at the very least a family involved, perhaps some hired folks or some partners that are part of it and if things reside in one person's head or another it's really hard to move things forward in the way that you normally would if everybody is able to access to the same amounts of information and ideas and planning.

If you want more information on this program to be given in both Everett and Spokane visit http://snohomish.wsu.edu/CultivatingSuccess.

And that's Washington Ag Today. I'm Greg Martin, thanks for listening on the Ag Information Network of the West.