The six educational sessions of the course include:

• Financial ratios, balance sheets, and record keeping systems, enterprise analysis
• Human communication and management styles, insurance needs, succession planning
• Legal and environmental issues, estate laws, property title, employee requirements
• Marketing plans, access to market information, contracts, basics of futures and options
• Production tools, farmland leasing, USDA programs, soil maps, crop insurance
• Topics chosen by participants

A sample program itinerary outlines the topics for a typical program with six three hour sessions.