Writing a Business Plan for a Farm-Related Business

Templates and Guides:

Building a Sustainable Business: A Guide to Developing a Business Plan for Farms and Rural Businesses is a comprehensive workbook that will help you develop a business plan. It includes a sample business plan and numerous worksheets. Available from the Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (MISA)
www.misa.umn.edu/vd/bizplan.html

Business Plan templates for Microsoft Word:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/CT101172331033.aspx?av=ZWD000

 

Articles and Other Resources:

Agricultural Marketing Resource Center (AgMRC) website on Business Plans:
www.agmrc.org/agmrc/business/startingbusiness/businessplans.htm

National Sustainable Agriculture Information List
Agricultural Business Planning Templates and Resources: Business and Marketing Resource List
http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/agriculture_planning.html

 

Personal Assistance:

ISU Extension Farm Management Specialists
www.extension.iastate.edu/ag/fsfm/fsfarmmg.html

MU Extension Agricultural Business Specialists
(choose the “Agriculture” link on the sidebar to view Specialists by region)
http://extension.missouri.edu/uoedir/

Service Corps Of Retired Executives (SCORE)
www.score.org/

Small Business Development Center (SBDC)
www.sba.gov/sbdc/

Center for Financial Management
www.cffm.umn.edu/Publications/BusinessPlanning/index.aspx

University of MN Business Plan Software
www.cffm.umn.edu/Software/BusinessPlan/index.aspx

Findlaw for small businesses
www.smallbusiness.findlaw.com/starting-business/starting-business-plan.html

Entrepreneur.com
www.entrepreneur.com/businessplan/index.html

CCH Toolkit planning tool
www.toolkit.cch.com/text/P02_0001.asp