Growing Farm Profits In-Service Training

Over the past five years, Southern SAWG and our partners have helped hundreds of diversified vegetable producers improve their profitability with our “Growing Farm Profits” program. Now the Southern SAWG training team in cooperation with agricultural economists Tim Woods (U of KY) and Kim Morgan (VA Tech) and Farm Credit Council’s Gary Matteson, is offering an in-service training opportunity for farm service providers who would like to build their skills in assisting diversified vegetable farmers with growing their profits. Here’s just a taste of what will be covered:

   • Differences between profit management and financial management
   • Drivers to profitability
   • What data really needs to be tracked
   • Evaluating profitability of various crops and various markets
   • Analyzing data to determine the impact of decisions

Purpose
Equip Extension personnel, Non-profit leaders, Farm Service agents, Lenders, and other service providers with knowledge, techniques and tools that will allow you to assist small and mid-scale producers of diversified vegetable crops with tracking key farm data, analyzing the data, and making business decisions that help these producers increase farm profitability.

Meet the Trainers

Jim Munsch and Ellen Polishuk both own and operate farms, and have led numerous trainings for farmers and agriculture professionals.

Jim is a graduate of Purdue University in Agriculture and Business. He is a long-time Wisconsin farmer and an expert in farm finances. He has helped both conventional and organic vegetable and beef producers nationwide to improve their profits. Jim specializes in whole farm profitability and was instrumental in developing the Veggie Compass Whole Farm Profit Management program with the Univer Ellen Polishuk sity of Wisconsin.

Ellen, Owner/Farmer of Potomac Vegetable Farms in Virginia, has an agricultural degree from Virginia Tech University and has led several trainings for Southern SAWG over the past six years. She has employed various tools and techniques to increase profitability on her own diversified vegetable farm. She will provide data from her farm and illustrate real-life decisions points for her farm to help participants gain a better understanding of how to put management strategies into practice on the farm.

This training has been developed by Southern SAWG • www.ssawg.org
Funding for this training was made possible by Southern SARE • www.southernsare.org

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Southern SAWG 25th Anniversary Conference

After the In-Service Training, you can also register to attend the very special Southern SAWG 25th Anniversary Conference. Mark your calendars for Jauary 27-30, 2016. Complete event details will be posted by mid-October.