Strategic thinking is the intuitive, visual, and creative process you use to make decisions about your farm business. Strategic thinking is all about thinking ahead, anticipating what your competition is going to do, and then taking risks in order to succeed.  Our values shape how we make the day-to-day and long-term decisions that affect our business and our future. Being able to define exactly what our personal, family, and business values are, allows us to more clearly understand our WHY – or what’s behind what motivates us and drives us to make decisions, accomplish goals, and be successful.  In this session, Extension Educator Steph Plaster will explore how to craft your values and put them to work in order to design your future rather than let the future happen to you.

For more information and resources visit: https://farms.extension.wisc.edu/article-topic/beginning-farm-enterprise-development/

Q&A: Submit your questions to the speakers prior/during to the program here.

Farm Ready Research

Learn the most up-to-date information on topics from dairy and livestock production to forage and farm management resources from Extension experts. See the full list of topics at go.wisc.edu/frr2021. Choose the sessions that are applicable to your farm:

• Badger Dairy Insight: Bi-weekly, Tuesdays, 1:00 pm
• Farm Management Fridays: Bi-weekly, 11:00 am
• Focus on Forage: Wednesdays, 12:30 pm
• Small Ruminants: Monthly, Second Tuesday, 7:30 pm