Navigate through challenging farm decisions and plan for success with a new online course

Are you considering a change for your farm or ag business? Or maybe you have an issue that needs to be addressed to improve your business and you are not sure how to get started on that planning. Navigating Your Ag Business: From Stress to Success is a new UW-Madison Division of Extension online course that will provide you strategies to answer these three questions:

Where are you now?
Where do you want to be?
How do you get there?

Navigating Your Ag Business: From Stress to Success combines online self-paced learning activities with live online group meetings, fostering a supportive peer community while collaborating with facilitators. The course starts on January 1, 2025, with the first live Zoom meeting scheduled for January 28, 2025, from 6:00 – 7:30 PM Central Time. The self-paced learning continues through April with opportunities for group and personalized meetings with facilitators throughout the remainder of the course. By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

Prioritize their current unique stressors
Select which financial camp they are in
Develop a vision and goals for their farm and family
Design an action plan to address their identified stressor and reach their vision and goals

Space is limited for this session that starts in January. Multiple farm members are encouraged to participate and attend the live sessions. It would be helpful for participants to register by December 13, 2024, so that materials can be mailed to them prior to January 1. However, we will accept registrations until the class is full. To learn more about the course and to register go to go.wisc.edu/NYAB Direct any questions to Joy Kirkpatrick, Farm Management Outreach Specialist, joy.kirkpatrick@wisc.edu 608.263.3485.

This program is a partnership between UW-Madison Division of Extension’s Farm Management Program and the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade, & Consumer Protection’s Farm Center. The development of this program was supported by USDA/NIFA under award numbers 2020-70028-32728 and 2024-70028-43552.