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

Opposite to fashionable perception, a very good residing may be made on an natural farm. What’s required is farming smarter, not tougher.

In The Natural Farmer’s Enterprise Handbook, Richard Wiswall shares recommendation on find out how to make your vegetable manufacturing extra environment friendly, higher handle your workers and funds, and switch a revenue. From his twenty-seven years of expertise at Cate Farm in Vermont, Wiswall is aware of firsthand the fun of beginning and working an natural farm–in addition to the challenges of creating a residing from one. Farming provides elementary satisfaction from producing meals, working outside, being one’s personal boss, and dealing intimately with nature. However, sadly, many farmers keep away from studying in regards to the enterprise finish of farming; due to this, they typically work tougher than they should, or stop farming altogether due to irritating–and infrequently avoidable–losses.

On this complete enterprise package, Wiswall covers:

Step-by-step procedures to make your crop manufacturing extra environment friendly

Recommendation on managing workers, farm operations, and workplace programs

Novel advertising and marketing methods

What to do along with your earnings: enterprise spending, investing, and planning for retirement

A companion CD provides worthwhile enterprise instruments, together with easy-to-use spreadsheets for projecting money move, a payroll calculator, complete crop budgets for forty totally different crops, and tax planners.