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The Organic Farmer´s Business Handbook: A Complete Guide to Managing Finances, Crops, and Staff - and Making a Profit

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Description for The Organic Farmer´s Business Handbook: A Complete Guide to Managing Finances, Crops, and Staff - and Making a Profit Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, Black and White Photos and Charts. BIC Classification: KJ; TV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 207 x 13. Weight in Grams: 517.

Contrary to popular belief, a good living can be made on an organic farm. What’s required is farming smarter, not harder.

In The Organic Farmer’s Business Handbook, Richard Wiswall shares advice on how to make your vegetable production more efficient, better manage your employees and finances, and turn a profit. From his twenty-seven years of experience at Cate Farm in Vermont, Wiswall knows firsthand the joys of starting and operating an organic farm—as well as the challenges of making a living from one. Farming offers fundamental satisfaction from producing food, working outdoors, being one’s own boss, and working intimately ... Read more

In this comprehensive business kit, Wiswall covers:

  • Step-by-step procedures to make your crop production more efficient
  • Advice on managing employees, farm operations, and office systems
  • Novel marketing strategies
  • What to do with your profits: business spending, investing, and planning for retirement

A companion CD offers valuable business tools, including easy-to-use spreadsheets for projecting cash flow, a payroll calculator, comprehensive crop budgets for forty different crops, and tax planners.

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Product Details

Publisher
Chelsea Green Publishing Co
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
517g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
White River Junction, United States
ISBN
9781603581424
SKU
V9781603581424
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-21

About Richard Wiswall
Richard Wiswall started Cate Farm in East Montpelier, Vermont, where he has farmed since 1981. Known for his work on farm profitability and appropriate business tools, Wiswall consults with other farmers, and writes and speaks frequently on organic-farm business issues. He is the author of book The Organic Farmer’s Business Handbook and Business Advice for Organic Farmers, a practical workshop ... Read more

Reviews for The Organic Farmer´s Business Handbook: A Complete Guide to Managing Finances, Crops, and Staff - and Making a Profit
"Richard Wiswall has given us a finely tuned handbook to run a profitable organic farm. Most farmers love the growing part but dread the business end, and suffer financially for it. This is a book that I will recommend to ANY farmer regardless of how long he or she has been in business. There are a lot of hard-learned lessons ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The Organic Farmer´s Business Handbook: A Complete Guide to Managing Finances, Crops, and Staff - and Making a Profit


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