Profitable & Healthy Farm Businesses
Your source for research-based, culturally responsive educational programs, information and tools that inform farm business management decisions.
Topics
Find information to help you successfully manage your farm
Farm Pulse: Crop Insurance and Grain Marketing
An online course for farmers interested in learning the importance of risk management, crop insurance, and grain marketing
Featured Programs
Becoming the Employer of Choice
A four week course mixing self-study with instructor-led discussion groups for farm managers looking to improve their farm’s employee engagement
Cultivating Your Farms Future
Wisconsin Extension has developed an interactive program, Cultivating Your Farm’s Future and a corresponding workbook that provides tools and resources for producers to begin the succession planning process.
Farm Pulse Financial Management & Analysis
A self-paced online course for farmers interested in learning how to use farm financials to explore their farm business decisions
Certified Farm Succession Coordinator Training
The UW-Madison Division of Extension in collaboration with the International Farm Transition Network (IFTN), offers the Certified Farm Succession Coordinator Training.
Getting Started with Your Food or Farm Business
Our weekly video series will give you the skills and connections you need to get started with your food business.
Navigating Your Ag Business: From Stress to Success
An online course designed to support farm businesses to make decisions, take action to move their farms forward, and reduce the farm members’ stress
Wisconsin Beginning Farmer Resource Guide
Designed as a road map, this guide walks beginning farmers through a variety of resources available to support them through their journey of starting an agriculture operation, farm, or food business. Print copies are available at your local USDA service center.
Latest News
Latest Articles
▶ Watch: Vegetable Disease Management for Hmong/HMoob Farmers
In this video, Hmong farmer Frannta Lor and Crops & Soils Educator Jerry Clark discuss common vegetable diseases found in Frannta’s crops. Jerry explains how to identify these diseases, why they occur, and how to manage them. He also shares tips to reduce pest problems in both the field and the greenhouse.
▶ Watch: Conservation Programs and High Tunnels for Hmong/HMoob Farmers
In this video, Hmong farmer Frannta Lor and Crops & Soils Educator Jerry Clark talk in HMoob about a natural resources conservation program that helps Frannta’s farm. Frannta also explains how he built a high tunnel greenhouse with financial support from another program.
Balancing Technology and People: The Evolving Role of Farm Workers in Automation
The progression toward automation is partly based on a shortage of workers, but it is part of a natural progression. Switching from work that is heavily dependent on people—whether it’s you, family members or hired employees—can be complicated.
Inherit It or Marry It… or Co-own a Farm?
Young farmers are often familiar with the old adage: if they want to own a farm, they must inherit it or marry it. However, farm succession planners know there’s a third, perhaps equally challenging, strategy: co-ownership.
Events
Stay Up to Date with Us
Subscribe to Our Newsletter
We send our newsletter on the first Friday of every month.
Sign up to receive updates in your inbox!
Who are we?
The Extension Farm Management Program partners with the agriculture community to develop research-based, culturally responsive educational information, resources and tools that inform decisions for profitable, healthy farm businesses.
Contact our Extension Farm Management team at farms@extension.wisc.edu
