The organic farmer's business handbook

a complete guide to managing finances, crops, and staff; and making a profit

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Richard Wiswall
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The organic farmer's business handbook

a complete guide to managing finances, crops, and staff; and making a profit

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Contrary to popular belief, a good living can be made on an organic farm. What’s required is farming smarter, not harder.

In The Organic Farmer’s Business Handbook, Richard Wiswall shares advice on how to make your vegetable production more efficient, better manage your employees and finances, and turn a profit. From his twenty-seven years of experience at Cate Farm in Vermont, Wiswall knows firsthand the joys of starting and operating an organic farm—as well as the challenges of making a living from one. Farming offers fundamental satisfaction from producing food, working outdoors, being one’s own boss, and working intimately with nature. But, unfortunately, many farmers avoid learning about the business end of farming; because of this, they often work harder than they need to, or quit farming altogether because of frustrating—and often avoidable—losses.

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Chelsea Green Pub.
Language
English

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Table of Contents

True sustainability
Farm for profit, not production
Discovering profit centers
Profit time: crop enterprise budgets
Marketing strategies
Effective management
Office paper flows and leaky finances
How to retire on your farm: retirement 101 and business spending tactics
Production efficiencies
Write your own business plan
Planning for the inevitable: the ultimate conclusion.

Edition Notes

Includes index.

Published in
White River Junction, VT

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
631.5/84068
Library of Congress
S605.5 .W57 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23686849M
ISBN 13
9781603581424
LCCN
2009025039
OCLC/WorldCat
419263281
Library Thing
9282791
Goodreads
6962822

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July 28, 2014 Edited by Todd Warner Added new cover
July 28, 2014 Edited by Todd Warner Made the title a bit more "correct". Added a description. Would add a cover photo, but I can't seem to do that. Hmm.
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