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FEARLESS FARM FINANCES TRAINING

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Pre-registration is now closed, but you can still come as a walk-in registrant. Check-in opens at 9:30 am on Friday. Registration cost $95.

Join MOSES for a two-day training to help you work with the financial information that matters on your farm.

Whether you are just starting out, or are an established farmer that has avoided numbers, this training will help you develop a comfort and an understanding of the basics of farm financial management.

Participants will receive a copy of the hot-off-the-press book Fearless Farm Finances, published by MOSES and developed by the training team.

There are a limited number of reduced rate scholarships available for this training. To learn more or apply for a scholarship please contact Angie Sullivan at the MOSES office for more information 715-778-5775 or angie@mosesorganic.org.

Program Topics:

• What Your Farm Numbers Can Tell You
• Effective and Efficient Data Collection and Organization
• Building and Using Your Balance Sheet
• Should You Grow Beets or Tomatoes? Enterprise Budgets
• Building and Learning From Your Income Statement
• Watching the Cash Flow Through A Cash Flow Statement
• Building the Big Picture: Planning and Budgeting
• How Can You Make Money Farming? Understanding Profitability

Program Schedule:
Friday, December 9th

• 7:30am Organic Breakfast
• 8:30am Q&A
• 9:15am Topic: Data Collection & Organization
• 11:00am Topic: Budgeting & Monitoring
• 12:00pm Organic Lunch
• 1:00pm Topic: Understanding Profitability

Presenters:
Chris Blanchard owns and operates Rock Spring Farm, with fifteen acres of vegetables, herbs, and greenhouse production north of Decorah, Iowa, selling a wide variety of vegetables and herbs through a 200-member CSA, food stores, and a farmers market since 1999. He has done numerous trainings and presentations to fellow farmers on farm planning, time management, data collection and numerous other topics.

Craig Chase is the Farm Management Program Specialist at Iowa State University Extension. Craig has over 27 years of experience in helping agricultural producers with business planning, financial analysis, risk management, and sustainable production issues. His recent work has been in analyzing organic and food-based alternative agricultural enterprises and regional food system development.

Paul Dietmann is the director of the Wisconsin Farm Center at the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection. Paul has more than 15 years of experience providing farm financial management, education and technical assistance to farm families, and has helped hundreds of farmers achieve greater financial success in their farming operations.

Location and Lodging
Held at the Radisson Hotel in La Crosse, Wisconsin; December 9-10, 2011. The Radisson has a limited number or rooms available for Friday, December 9th at a reduced rate ($75 + tax) for those attending this workshop. Please reserve your room by November 19th to receive the reduced rate. Reservations at (608) 784-6680 under "farm finances". Click here for more information about alternate hotels in La Crosse.

Visit the Farm Finances webpage to learn more about the project that made this training possible. Please contact Angie Sullivan at the MOSES office for more information 715-778-5775 or angie@mosesorganic.org.