farm business skills
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The owner can't do everything. What skill set is required to profitably run a natural farm?TRANSCRIPT
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Farm Business Skills
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A Natural Farming System for Sustainable Agriculture in the Tropics
• Soil Management• Microbial Management• 10 Fundamentals
• Today– Farm tour– Lecture– Hands on EME
• Day 2– Lecture– Video– Hands on Bokashi
• Day 3– Hands on all morning– Afternoon review– Exam – Farm planning– Marketing
Book Manual Farm Development CD
P500.00P500.00
P100.00
DVD
P500.00
DVD & CD Set
P1,000.00
+ =
The Course
Farm Business Success
Assessing the 3 main skills
Technical Knowledge/work
Management Ability
Farm Business SuccessAssessing the 3 main skills
Business Sophistication
A generous man will prosper; he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed.Proverbs 11:25
Goal: Develop high quality, nutrient dense food for our customers.
Don’t chase profits,Create value and Profits will follow
Honor the LORD with your wealth, with the first fruits of all your crops;Proverbs 3:9
Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve before kings; he will not serve before obscure men.
Orphanage
Livelihood
Poor Families
Mother’s Program
SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
The Aloha House
FishingVillages
AbandonedChildren
Tribes
Where do the children come
from?
Squatter Camps
The Aloha House
Feed The Neediest, Most Vulnerable With Nutrient Dense Food
The Aloha House Experience:Make a Sanctuary for the Poor
Marketing the FarmSchool Groups
Inviting the community
Learn toPropagateMicrobes
Marketing the FarmSchool Groups
Inviting the community
Book available at Allied Botanical,
Harbest in Mega MallMetro Manila
Marketing the FarmFarm Tours
Trained Guides
Marketing the FarmFarm Tours
Trained and Knowledgeable Guides
Brgy Captians
Secretary Montejo D.O.S.T.
Marketing the FarmWord of mouth
Righteousness esteemed over wealth
Proverbs 11:4Wealth is worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers
from death.
Trust in God’s Judgement
Idolatry vs. Faith Proverbs 11:28Whoever trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will thrive like a green leaf.
Trust in God’s provision
Technical Knowledge/work
Management
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Farm Business Skills
Time Supervision
Opportunity costBe a walking example
Resource management
MarketingKnowing costs
Seizing Opportunity Handling customer complaints
Accounting skills/ record keeping
AccurateMastery of the informationConstant testing Continual learningAble to train others
Does it work?
Does it offset costs?
Does it require maintenance?
Technical Knowledge/work
Management
Business
Farm Business Skills
Hitting the bulls eye for a successful farm operation is very unlikely the first year
success
Technical Knowledge/work
Management
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Farm Business Skills
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ignorance
Technical Knowledge/work
Management
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Farm Business Skills
1 skill set
Technical Knowledge/work
Management
Business
Farm Business Skills
1 skill set
Technical Knowledge/work
Management
Business
Farm Business Skills
1 skill set
Technical Knowledge/work
Management
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Farm Business Skills Missing Business sense
Costly mistakes
Missing farm skillsSteep learning curve
Not able to manageLots of waste
You must GAIN skill or AFFORD to HIRE where you lack
Farm Business Strategies for Success
40 hrs. is a slow weekSlow times are for gaining new knowledge and skillsInvest in information
•Books•Trainings•Consultants
Diversify your product lineTry Value added natural processingYou need multiple markets to sell into, not just one buyer
1m
10m
Opportunity costWorld record rice harvest
200 cavans = 10 tons palayGood Aloha Lettuce crop
1m
10m
10 kilo palay = 6 kilo organic rice6k x P100/k = 600.00P/10 sq m
140 lettuce seedlings = 15 kilo organic lettuce15k x P300/k = 4,500.00P/10 sq m
4 kilo palay = 2 kilo organic rice2k x P45/k = 90.00P/10 sq m
140 lettuce seedlings = 10 kilo organic lettuce10k x P200/k = 2,000.00P/10 sq m
P2,000,000.00/hectare
P90,000.00/hectare
30 days
90 days90 daysP6,000,000.00/hectare
Income
Contract growers hoping the chicken industry offers a steady nest egg may instead be trapped by debttrapped by debt
CAMERON, Texas, Barry Shlachter, Star-Telegram via Crop-Choice.com, posted March 6, 2005: In 1999, a former high school physics teacher named Susan Martin became one of the country's 30,000 contract growers responsible for the vast majority of the chicken we eat.
She dreamed of succeeding in agribusiness, working with Sanderson Farms, a large Mississippi poultry processor with more than $1 billion in annual sales.
But two years later, Martin was losing money and carrying $460,000 in farm debt. Worse, Martin discovered that under the terms of her contract, she couldn't sue Sanderson, which she accused of misleading her. Nor could she afford the $23,000 cost of binding arbitration as required by the contract to resolve disputes. The American Arbitration Association's Dallas office rejected Martin's request to have the fees waived.
"It was hell," said Martin, 52, whose husband is a manager in an office furniture factory. She lost her farm near Cameron, south of Temple, and about $100,000 in equity. "The worst thing was being treated like a dog."
Mike Cockrell, Sanderson's chief financial officer, denied that the company has misled its 150 contract growers in Texas to whom, he said, it offers some of the most progressive contracts in the industry.
But poultry companies like Sanderson, Tyson and Pilgrim's Pride have increasingly come under criticism for their half-century-old system of contract growing, through which about 90 percent of U.S. chickens are now produced.
Under contract growing, which has helped keep the supermarket price of chicken low, the poultry companies own the flocks and supply the feed. Growers, who get a guaranteed price per pound, provide the labor, chicken houses, water, electricity and gas.
But many small farmers, who commonly borrow $700,000 or more to build chicken houses and subsequently must invest more to keep up with new technology and competing growers, find themselves deep in hock and unable to make a profit.
Critics like Wes Sims, president of the Waco-based Texas Farmers Union, say that predictions of growers' earnings are overstated, that they risk being cut off from fresh flocks for refusing costly upgrades demanded by companies, and that their heavy farm debt ensures that they renew unfair contracts, creating a system akin to modern-day
Direct sales poultry vs. Confined Contract Growing
Magnolia Contract GrowerAloha Pastured Poultry
P5,600/100 pastured chicken70 days
P5,600.00/batch P800.00/batch70 days 56 days
365 daysP30,000.00/year
P800/100 confined chicken35 days growing21 days cleaning,
disinfecting, aeratingProfit
365 daysP6,000.00/year
80/20 RuleA call for balance
Proverbs 30:7-9Two things I ask of you, O Lord, do not refuse me before I die:
Keep falsehood and lies far from me; and give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread.
Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say, “Who is the Lord?” Or I may become poor and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.
Too much or too little?
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