Nate Bruce, Farm Business Management Specialist, nsbruce@udel.edu Enterprise budgets for processing vegetables have been updated with prices and information for 2022. You can use these budgets to estimate your production costs and returns for several different crops: pickling cucumbers, sweet… Continue Reading
Laurie Wolinski, Extension Agent; lgw@udel.edu Writing CLEAR and SMART goals is an excellent exercise to help business owners map direction while developing other critical parts of a business plan. The next steps in writing a business plan are really about… Continue Reading
Laurie Wolinski, Extension Agent; lgw@udel.edu Writing your business objectives and mission statements is a great start to developing your business plan. As mentioned, mission statements should be short and concise. Below are two examples. Note that both examples include action… Continue Reading
Laurie Wolinski, Extension Agent; lgw@udel.edu “You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.” –Yogi Berra. I like to use the above quote when describing why a business plan is… Continue Reading
Laurie Wolinski, Extension Agent, lgw@udel.edu; Dan Severson, New Castle Co. Ag Agent, severson@udel.edu and Maria Pippidis, Extension Educator Family & Consumer Sciences, pippidis@udel.edu Writing about succession planning somehow happens a lot faster than the actual planning on the farm (Part… Continue Reading
