farm business skills

Technical Knowledge/work

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Farm Business Skills

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A Natural Farming System for Sustainable Agriculture in the Tropics

• Soil Management• Microbial Management• 10 Fundamentals

• Today– Farm tour– Lecture– Hands on EME

• Day 2– Lecture– Video– Hands on Bokashi

• Day 3– Hands on all morning– Afternoon review– Exam – Farm planning– Marketing

Book Manual Farm Development CD

P500.00P500.00

P100.00

DVD

P500.00

DVD & CD Set

P1,000.00

+ =

The Course

Farm Business Success

Assessing the 3 main skills


Management Ability

Farm Business SuccessAssessing the 3 main skills

Business Sophistication

A generous man will prosper; he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed.Proverbs 11:25

Goal: Develop high quality, nutrient dense food for our customers.

Don’t chase profits,Create value and Profits will follow

Honor the LORD with your wealth, with the first fruits of all your crops;Proverbs 3:9

Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve before kings; he will not serve before obscure men.

Orphanage

Livelihood

Poor Families

Mother’s Program

SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE

The Aloha House

FishingVillages

AbandonedChildren

Tribes

Where do the children come

from?

Squatter Camps

The Aloha House

Feed The Neediest, Most Vulnerable With Nutrient Dense Food

The Aloha House Experience:Make a Sanctuary for the Poor

Marketing the FarmSchool Groups

Inviting the community

Learn toPropagateMicrobes

Marketing the FarmSchool Groups

Inviting the community

Book available at Allied Botanical,

Harbest in Mega MallMetro Manila

Marketing the FarmFarm Tours

Trained Guides

Marketing the FarmFarm Tours

Trained and Knowledgeable Guides

Brgy Captians

Secretary Montejo D.O.S.T.

Marketing the FarmWord of mouth

Righteousness esteemed over wealth

Proverbs 11:4Wealth is worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers

from death.

Trust in God’s Judgement

Idolatry vs. Faith Proverbs 11:28Whoever trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will thrive like a green leaf.

Trust in God’s provision


Management

Business


Time Supervision

Opportunity costBe a walking example

Resource management

MarketingKnowing costs

Seizing Opportunity Handling customer complaints

Accounting skills/ record keeping

AccurateMastery of the informationConstant testing Continual learningAble to train others

Does it work?

Does it offset costs?

Does it require maintenance?


Management

Business


Hitting the bulls eye for a successful farm operation is very unlikely the first year

success


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ignorance


Management

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1 skill set


Management

Business

Farm Business Skills Missing Business sense

Costly mistakes

Missing farm skillsSteep learning curve

Not able to manageLots of waste

You must GAIN skill or AFFORD to HIRE where you lack

Farm Business Strategies for Success

40 hrs. is a slow weekSlow times are for gaining new knowledge and skillsInvest in information

•Books•Trainings•Consultants

Diversify your product lineTry Value added natural processingYou need multiple markets to sell into, not just one buyer

1m

10m

Opportunity costWorld record rice harvest

200 cavans = 10 tons palayGood Aloha Lettuce crop

1m

10m

10 kilo palay = 6 kilo organic rice6k x P100/k = 600.00P/10 sq m

140 lettuce seedlings = 15 kilo organic lettuce15k x P300/k = 4,500.00P/10 sq m

4 kilo palay = 2 kilo organic rice2k x P45/k = 90.00P/10 sq m

140 lettuce seedlings = 10 kilo organic lettuce10k x P200/k = 2,000.00P/10 sq m

P2,000,000.00/hectare

P90,000.00/hectare

30 days

90 days90 daysP6,000,000.00/hectare

Income

Contract growers hoping the chicken industry offers a steady nest egg may instead be trapped by debttrapped by debt

CAMERON, Texas, Barry Shlachter, Star-Telegram via Crop-Choice.com, posted March 6, 2005: In 1999, a former high school physics teacher named Susan Martin became one of the country's 30,000 contract growers responsible for the vast majority of the chicken we eat.

She dreamed of succeeding in agribusiness, working with Sanderson Farms, a large Mississippi poultry processor with more than $1 billion in annual sales.

But two years later, Martin was losing money and carrying $460,000 in farm debt. Worse, Martin discovered that under the terms of her contract, she couldn't sue Sanderson, which she accused of misleading her. Nor could she afford the $23,000 cost of binding arbitration as required by the contract to resolve disputes. The American Arbitration Association's Dallas office rejected Martin's request to have the fees waived.

"It was hell," said Martin, 52, whose husband is a manager in an office furniture factory. She lost her farm near Cameron, south of Temple, and about $100,000 in equity. "The worst thing was being treated like a dog."

Mike Cockrell, Sanderson's chief financial officer, denied that the company has misled its 150 contract growers in Texas to whom, he said, it offers some of the most progressive contracts in the industry.

But poultry companies like Sanderson, Tyson and Pilgrim's Pride have increasingly come under criticism for their half-century-old system of contract growing, through which about 90 percent of U.S. chickens are now produced.

Under contract growing, which has helped keep the supermarket price of chicken low, the poultry companies own the flocks and supply the feed. Growers, who get a guaranteed price per pound, provide the labor, chicken houses, water, electricity and gas.

But many small farmers, who commonly borrow $700,000 or more to build chicken houses and subsequently must invest more to keep up with new technology and competing growers, find themselves deep in hock and unable to make a profit.

Critics like Wes Sims, president of the Waco-based Texas Farmers Union, say that predictions of growers' earnings are overstated, that they risk being cut off from fresh flocks for refusing costly upgrades demanded by companies, and that their heavy farm debt ensures that they renew unfair contracts, creating a system akin to modern-day

Direct sales poultry vs. Confined Contract Growing

Magnolia Contract GrowerAloha Pastured Poultry

P5,600/100 pastured chicken70 days

P5,600.00/batch P800.00/batch70 days 56 days

365 daysP30,000.00/year

P800/100 confined chicken35 days growing21 days cleaning,

disinfecting, aeratingProfit

365 daysP6,000.00/year

80/20 RuleA call for balance

Proverbs 30:7-9Two things I ask of you, O Lord, do not refuse me before I die:

Keep falsehood and lies far from me; and give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread.

Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say, “Who is the Lord?” Or I may become poor and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.

Too much or too little?


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