| PROJECT SUMMARY |
FACTS will deliver a ten week long (30 hours) course in Roseburg Or. for 15 to 25 farmers, ranchers, and private timberland managers.
Sessions often include a local guest speaker. Instructors will be available for individual counseling outside of class time. FACTS will support the class with a proven curricula and extensive handouts and examples that are tailored to reflect local and current conditions.
These are the session titles; Family Farm Values and Farming Vision, Strategic Planning for a Sustainable Future, Regulatory and Legal Risk Management, Management Skills and Risk Management Assessment, Marketing from the Basics to the Alternatives, Budgets, Cashflows, and Alternative Enterprises and Enterprise Budgets, Financial statements – Profit and Loss Statements and Balance Sheets, Finance Options, Estate and Succession Planning
FACTS courses are:
• Family centered
• Regionally adapted
• Comprehensive
• Local capacity building
• One on one assistive
• Community based |
| NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS: 26 |
| TOPICS COVERED |
| Insurance products |
| Product and enterprise diversification |
| Marketing strategies, plans and clubs |
| Contract production, branded or certified marketing, and value-added enterprises |
| Financial records, analysis, and bench-marking |
| Capital and financial assets |
| Plans and tools to address succession, estate planning, health, and well being |
| Tools for managing legal liability |
| Leases, contracts and negotiation |
| Business and strategic planning |
| Interpersonal, family and business relationships |
| Ability to manage changes in policy and regulation |
