Moving Assets and Management to a New Wave of Beginning Farmers Gary Matteson, Farm Credit Council VP Young, Beginning, Small Farmer Programs and Outreach
Moving Assets
Moving Management
Are we talking about a farm business or a place to live?
Moving Management 1.Identify choices 2.Define roles 3.Enrich capacity 4.Assure assistance 5.Assess performance
New Wave of Beginning Farmers
What they know that you don’t
Pervasive …If marketing channels were commodities… Rank of farming activity, including market types, by farming as primary or other occupation Direct to consumer sales
What they don’t know
Implications for Instructors
New Agriculture....
Where the Next Generation Isn’t
The Emergence of Retail Agriculture Gary Matteson, Farm Credit Council VP Young, Beginning, Small Farmer Programs and Outreach.