Advanced Farm Business Management - Certificate

This course is intended to enhance students' decision-making skills relating to business risk management. Students will investigate tools available to their business that would be effective in reducing potential risk for their operation. Emphasis will be placed on having the student research risk management options that will meet their business, family, and personal needs. (Prerequisite: None)

This course guides students in the application of concepts in financial management that can be used in the development of a business risk management program. The student will implement risk management tools that will assist in meeting business, family, and personal needs. (Prerequisite: None)

This course will enable students to identify the elements necessary to evaluate and create a strategic plan for the business, determining uses for the plan today and tomorrow and developing a plan to locate those team members necessary for strategic plan creation. (Prerequisites: None)

This course will provide practical application of strategic planning skills. Application skills will be practiced upon and applied to the student's business and business plan. (Prerequisites: None)

This course will provide practical application of the business plan. Application skills will be practiced and applied as the student's business plan is prepared and implemented. (Prerequisite: None)

This course will provide practical application of the business plan. Students will utilize financial information and records to apply the business plan. (Prerequisite: None)

This course will examine the individual, family, and farm business decision-making processes with emphasis on upgrading and improving decision-making resources, tools and skills. Particularly, this course will lead the student to critically analyze information, applications, and implications of decision-making as it relates to their own situation. Students will evaluate their own decision- making process. (Prerequisites: None)

This course will assist the student in further acquiring and developing a higher level of communication skills. Students will review and evaluate various communication methods and techniques in dealing with and relating to individuals in both the public and private sector. Students will use this information in formulating an effective communication method and style. (Prerequisites: None)

This course will deal with evaluating modern agricultural technological changes and determining if they fit into an individual's farming operation. (Prerequisites: None)

This course will assist those students wanting to make changes in their farm business through enterprise expansion, addition, enhancement or elimination. The course will develop a set of procedures for exploring and evaluating alternative choices. (Prerequisites: None)

Students will study the many aspects of farm business and/or family transition which occur in the typical farm business. Both estate planning and transition planning will be explored. (Prerequisites: None)

Students will organize skills for effective management of farm employees and agribusiness personnel through development of handbooks, compensation/incentive packages, individual expectations/evaluations, and team meetings. (Prerequisites: None)