Business Planning Guide

The Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN), the national outreach arm of the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program, recently released a Business Planning Guide. SARE is a program of the USDA Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES).

“Building a Sustainable Business: A Guide to Developing a Business Plan for Farms and Rural Businesses” focuses on helping alternative and sustainable agriculture entrepreneurs. It is published in collaboration with the Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture.

Sample worksheets illustrate how real farm families set goals, determined potential markets and evaluated financing options - and helping the reader develop a detailed business plan.

To preview, this publication is available online in a 277 page pdf file. See http://www.sare.org/publications. Print copy order information is also provided. Each wire-bound copy is $14 plus $3.95 s/h. Credit card and discounted volume orders may be placed by calling 802/656-0484.  Please find below a direct link to this publication:

http://www.sare.org/handbook/SustainableBusiness/SustainableBusiness.pdf