Student Learning Outcomes

This course is the culmination of activities designed to enable the student to develop and implement a comprehensive farm business strategic plan. The student will use the components of the Farm Business Management Program to develop and support a strategic plan.Student Learning Outcomes
  • Evaluate strategic opportunities for current and new enterprises
  • Evaluate business structure and ownership opportunities (i.e. LLC, Partnerships, S or C corp., including new partners or transfer to new potential owners)
  • Create accurate enterprise budgets
  • Evaluate financial ratios
  • Prioritize strategies to improve enterprise trend direction
  • Formulate strategies to improve new and existing enterprise trend directions
  • Assess a farm business risk management plan
  • Evaluate emerging technologies
  • Inventory existing technologies utilized within the farm business
  • Prioritize future technology needs
  • Evaluate benchmark trends
  • Develop a strategic farm business management plan

Prerequisites

Please see eServices for section availability and current pre-req/test score requirements for this course.