Strategic Planning

Strategic planning involves the development of long-term strategies to increase the profitability and competitiveness of your farm business. This may involve developing new enterprises for your farm such as organic production, on-farm processing, direct marketing of your products to consumers, or the efficient production of traditional farm commodities.

Strategic planning is important as you’re pre-planning and getting ready to start an agricultural business.

Tools and learning resources will be added to this section in the coming weeks. For now, here is a primer:

Strategic Planning for Farm Businesses

Don Hofstrand, Iowa State University Extension and Outreach (May 2016)