FROM CLEMSON COOPERATIVE EXTENSION
Faculty of Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences
The Government Farm Administration program is a administration course to equip farmers and executives with the enterprise abilities they should thrive within the ever-changing discipline of agriculture. EFM goes digital to carry these instruments to producers this 12 months.
Clemson Cooperative Extension is partnering with N.C. State College, East Carolina College and the College of Georgia Cooperative Extension Service on the Government Farm Administration program – a digital “bootcamp” to be held Feb. 10-12 and designed to show foundational abilities in monetary administration, strategic planning and human useful resource administration.
“This isn’t essentially for the beginning or starting farmer – though it may definitely be helpful for them as effectively – however that is type of the subsequent stage of studying,” Clemson Extension Farm Enterprise Marketing consultant Scott Mickey mentioned. “It is extra utilized studying and overlaying subjects which can be wanted to maintain a farm operation transferring ahead.”
Contributors within the digital EFM Bootcamp will be taught foundational abilities in monetary administration, strategic planning and human useful resource administration – subjects similar to utilizing key monetary ratios to handle successfully and methods to lead troublesome conversations and navigate difficult household succession points. This might be taught with a real-world case examine throughout the context of the Enterprise Mannequin Canvas.
Mickey developed the case examine that might be used as a mannequin farm for this 12 months’s course.
“It is a 3,500-acre cotton and peanut farm modeled primarily based upon what a panel of South Carolina farmers decides that farm ought to appear like. It’s consultant of comparable operations within the Southeast – from yield to value of operations and price of manufacturing, et cetera,” Mickey mentioned.
This system has been designed for giant, household owned operations throughout the Southeast, and the curriculum focuses on the administration features of the operation which is adaptable for all operations of any measurement, scale and commodity focus.
“The individuals might be working in groups, so they will not essentially be speaking about their farms and people particular particulars – it is going to come up within the dialogue – however it permits them to make use of a mannequin as a reference level of their discussions without having to reveal these particular particulars about their very own operations,” Clemson Extension Agribusiness Program Group Director Nathan Smith mentioned.
Moreover, the Nationwide Peanut Board will present a $150 tuition grant for as much as 100 U.S. peanut farmers who take part within the 2021 EFMP. Farmers can discover out extra particulars and join this system at go.ncsu.edu/efm. Learn extra at: https://execfarmmgmt.ces.ncsu.edu/2021-bootcamp-info/.
