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# Organic farming focus Effective staff & task management Comprehensive financial management The Organic Farmer's Business Handbook: A Complete Guide to Managing Finances, Crops, and Staff - and Making a Profit

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## Summary

> 🌾 Grow your organic empire with business savvy and hands-on wisdom!

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- **How much does it cost?** 237.24 DT with free shipping
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## Key Features

- • **Lead Your Team Like a Pro:** Implement proven employee management strategies for smoother operations.
- • **Master Your Farm Finances:** Unlock simple, actionable methods to track income, expenses, and maximize profits.
- • **Build a Resilient Business Plan:** Stay focused on profitable ventures and drop what doesn’t serve growth.
- • **Optimize Crop & Task Efficiency:** Learn smart scheduling and task-blocking to boost productivity without burnout.
- • **Adaptable for Any Small Business:** Insights that transcend farming—perfect for any entrepreneurial mindset.

## Overview

The Organic Farmer's Business Handbook is a highly-rated, practical guide designed for beginning and aspiring organic farmers. It covers essential topics like financial management, crop productivity, staff coordination, and business planning, all tailored to help farmers run profitable, sustainable operations. With a 4.6-star rating and top rankings in agriculture and sustainable farming categories, this book is a must-have resource for anyone serious about turning their farm into a thriving business.

## Description

Contrary to popular belief, a good living can be made on an organic farm. What’s required is farming smarter, not harder. In The Organic Farmer’s Business Handbook , Richard Wiswall shares advice on how to make your vegetable production more efficient, better manage your employees and finances, and turn a profit. From his twenty-seven years of experience at Cate Farm in Vermont, Wiswall knows firsthand the joys of starting and operating an organic farm—as well as the challenges of making a living from one. Farming offers fundamental satisfaction from producing food, working outdoors, being one’s own boss, and working intimately with nature. But, unfortunately, many farmers avoid learning about the business end of farming; because of this, they often work harder than they need to, or quit farming altogether because of frustrating—and often avoidable—losses. In this comprehensive business kit, Wiswall covers: Step-by-step procedures to make your crop production more efficient Advice on managing employees, farm operations, and office systems Novel marketing strategies What to do with your profits: business spending, investing, and planning for retirement A companion toolkit, available for download upon purchase of the book, offers valuable business tools, including easy-to-use spreadsheets for projecting cash flow, a payroll calculator, comprehensive crop budgets for forty different crops, and tax planners.

Review: Excellent resource for the beginning farmer!!! - For the beginning/want-to-be farmer this book is priceless!!! It answered many of our questions regarding what it means to be a farmer and helped us to develop the 'farm as a business' perspective, especially with respect to taxes, keeping track of farm income/expenses, plugging leaks, etc. The author presented a very simple and excellent method for keeping up with these necessary details. The example worksheets for budgeting/tracking the productivity of various farming ventures, discussions regarding the separation of personal and farm expenses/accounts, marketing strategies, etc. help to further effectively illustrate the author's points. Discussions regarding increasing the farm's assets versus investing outside the farm were useful for pointing out the importance of planning for retirement and recognizing that expenses are not investments, but simply expenses. We also appreciated the discussions regarding increasing efficiency (blocking tasks, making a calendar, scheduling time for important tasks, etc.), employee management (weekly meetings, multiple employees on big tasks, breaking up large tasks into smaller ones, rotating/mixing up hard and fun tasks in the same day, etc.), and business plan development (staying focused, keeping your goals in mind, dropping non-profitable activities, etc.). In short, the book is easy to read and flows nicely from one topic to the next. It is clearly written from a hands-on management perspective making it very practical and useful.
Review: A True Keeper. A MUST READ for any current or potential business owner or farmer. - Wow, this was one of the best business books for a "small business owners approach" I have ever read. And I read a lot. This book is so spot on and truly educational for a small business owner, not just an "Organic Farmer" business handbook. If you are considering starting a business, this covers all the business operations side that can be adapted to any business. If you learn the lessons and approaches in this book, you will understand how to identify profitable profit lines within your various products and sales channels. You will be able to effectively manage your business instead of letting it manage you. As someone that has owned or run a number of small businesses, Big-4 consulted to Fortune 1000 organizations and a Sr. financial analyst forecasting over $1B for the US Navy technology programs with multiple designations and top-tier degrees, I can not recommend this book more highly than the review above.

## Features

- Used Book in Good Condition

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #102,290 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #11 in Green Business (Books) #31 in Agriculture Industry (Books) #52 in Sustainable Agriculture (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 181 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent resource for the beginning farmer!!!
*by P***E on February 24, 2012*

For the beginning/want-to-be farmer this book is priceless!!! It answered many of our questions regarding what it means to be a farmer and helped us to develop the 'farm as a business' perspective, especially with respect to taxes, keeping track of farm income/expenses, plugging leaks, etc. The author presented a very simple and excellent method for keeping up with these necessary details. The example worksheets for budgeting/tracking the productivity of various farming ventures, discussions regarding the separation of personal and farm expenses/accounts, marketing strategies, etc. help to further effectively illustrate the author's points. Discussions regarding increasing the farm's assets versus investing outside the farm were useful for pointing out the importance of planning for retirement and recognizing that expenses are not investments, but simply expenses. We also appreciated the discussions regarding increasing efficiency (blocking tasks, making a calendar, scheduling time for important tasks, etc.), employee management (weekly meetings, multiple employees on big tasks, breaking up large tasks into smaller ones, rotating/mixing up hard and fun tasks in the same day, etc.), and business plan development (staying focused, keeping your goals in mind, dropping non-profitable activities, etc.). In short, the book is easy to read and flows nicely from one topic to the next. It is clearly written from a hands-on management perspective making it very practical and useful.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A True Keeper. A MUST READ for any current or potential business owner or farmer.
*by Y***E on May 18, 2017*

Wow, this was one of the best business books for a "small business owners approach" I have ever read. And I read a lot. This book is so spot on and truly educational for a small business owner, not just an "Organic Farmer" business handbook. If you are considering starting a business, this covers all the business operations side that can be adapted to any business. If you learn the lessons and approaches in this book, you will understand how to identify profitable profit lines within your various products and sales channels. You will be able to effectively manage your business instead of letting it manage you. As someone that has owned or run a number of small businesses, Big-4 consulted to Fortune 1000 organizations and a Sr. financial analyst forecasting over $1B for the US Navy technology programs with multiple designations and top-tier degrees, I can not recommend this book more highly than the review above.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Just What I Was Looking For
*by S***R on August 21, 2010*

For the beginning farmer, this book is an excellent resource. It's chock full of practical suggestions (based on the farmer's years of experience) and examples for keeping records on the farming enterprise. At this point I'm about half-way through the book and have not yet accessed the CD which is included, but I expect the remainder of the book and CD will be just as useful as the first half. Sometimes I feel "organizationally challenged" but with this book I do not have to "reinvent the wheel" and can make better decisions about my farm because I will know precisely where I stand with the finances. This book not only addresses finances, but also time-management issues which are just as important as the dollars and cents. The happiness factor is greatly enhanced when your life is in balance and you feel like you are reaching your goals. This book also addresses dealing with staff which is a huge topic in itself. Thank you, Richard Wiswall, for writing this book and saving me several hundred hours of my life trying to figure out how to balance the books and keep my sanity. You are as much of a hero to me as Joel Salatin is for his insignts and leadership in organic farming.

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