Navigating Your Ag Business: From Stress to Success
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
Navigating Your Ag Business: From Stress to Success is an Extension course that blends online learning and resources with live group meetings to help farmers evaluate and address a challenge, a decision, or an opportunity. It is designed to help farmers and their families reduce their stress through targeted planning.
Course Overview
The course follows a 3-step process by answering the following questions:
1. Where are you now?
2. Where do you want to be?
3. How do you get there?
The course provides a mix of lectures, videos, homework assignments, de-stressing activities, and live virtual group discussions. It provides a framework to identify your current stressors, evaluate your financial position, develop your vision and goals for your farm and your family, and develop an action plan to address your identified stressors and reach your goals.
Activities include Money Habitudes, gathering information about the history of the farm and how it is currently operated, collecting financial information for analysis, conducting a SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities & Threats), exploring participants’ visions for the farm, and developing next steps.
What will I learn?
You will learn how to:
- Prioritize your current unique stressors
- Identify your financial goals
- Develop your vision and goals for your farm and family
- Design an action plan to address your stressors and reach your goals
Register
Register now for the January 2025 session!
This online course will open on January 1, 2025 and will run through March 2025. The self-paced work takes approximately 10-15 hours over the three months. There will be a live Zoom meeting on Tuesday January 28, 2025 from 6–7:30 PM Central Time. Optional “open office hours” will be hosted via Zoom from 6-7 PM on Tuesdays throughout February and March (Feb 4, Feb 11, Feb 25, Mar 11, and Mar 25). The course will end with a final Zoom meeting on March 25, 2025 from 7-8 PM Central Time.
If you are unable to join the January session, but would like to participate in a future session, please fill out the course interest form below!
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This material was developed by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension and the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade & Consumer Protection Farm Center.
This course was made possible through the North Central Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Center: Engaging Programs to Support Producer Well-being (NCFRSAC) and is based upon work supported by the USDA/NIFA under award numbers 2020-70028-32728 and 2024-70028-43552.
