Profitable & Healthy Farm Businesses
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New Online Course
Integrating Health Care and Health Insurance into Your Wisconsin Farm
This free online course will guide you through aligning your family’s health needs with your farm business goals, exploring insurance options, understanding key terms and costs, and planning for changing needs. Upon completion, you’ll be equipped with practical strategies and resources to confidently manage health care and insurance as part of your whole farm plan.
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
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Milk Hauling Quick Reference
Find simple answers and detailed explanations for common questions about how milk moves from farm to plant, plus how much it costs.
Canada’s 2026 Retaliatory Dairy Tariffs: What Is Tariffed, What Moves, and What It Means for U.S. and Wisconsin Milk Prices
Both countries have put new tariffs on each other’s dairy products. The size of the effect depends on duration and relief. However, Wisconsin is more exposed than other states.
Current Discussions on the Dairy Margin Coverage Program in 2026
Dairy Margin Coverage has provided more than $3 billion in payments since it was established in 2019, but as farms and markets evolve, questions remain about how the program reflects today’s costs and risk management needs.
Custom Rates for 2025 Wisconsin Farm Operations
This report provides estimates of typical custom rates for common farming operations in Wisconsin. These rates are based on the 2025 Wisconsin Custom Rate Survey of Wisconsin farmers, farm managers and custom operators.
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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