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AgriSuccess Workshops
Where do you want your operation to be in five years? Do you know how to get there? Find out with AgriSuccess workshops. In each workshop, you'll focus on a specific farm management skill that you can use in your operation.
Farm Financial Management - Statements and Ratios
Perhaps you're the type of person who likes to keep your numbers in your head, but find yourself considering a better way to use accounting. Then it's time to understand how to put the numbers to work for you. This success-building workshop will help you advance your knowledge of statements and ratios so you can analyze your operation better and maximize your operation's financial performance.
Benefits of attending
- Learn how to use your financial statements and calculate ratios to analyze your operation.
- Know how to use financial knowledge to make better decisions.
- Better monitor your operation’s performance.
- Gain clarity about where you stand financially.
- Learn how to manage your financial performance for better success.
Farm Financial Management - Profitability and Budgeting
You’ll use your own financial information to develop a management accounting system that will help you:
- prepare a detailed annual budget
- set a profit target each season
- interpret and analyse financial data
- secure key relationships with lenders and suppliers
- examine the pros and cons of a cash versus accrual system
- train the next generation to understand the financial operation of the farm
- maximize cash flow to get more choice
Hiring Employees
Do you have the best employees possible? Do you know how to get them? In this workshop, you’ll learn proven techniques to recruit and hire the best employees for your operation. You’ll use a real job in your operation as an example to:
- identify job competencies and write job descriptions
- develop a process to recruit applicants
- determine guidelines for interviews
- learn experiential interviewing skills and best practices for choosing the right person for the right job
Keeping Employees
Now that you have your dream employees, how do you keep them? This workshop will teach you to:
- use people management techniques that work
- inspire individual employees and work teams
- support and coach your key employees
- help your employees succeed
Transferring the Family Farm
Transferring the family farm can be an emotional issue for everyone. Finding out what's involved can bring you and your family that much closer to having peace of mind. Designed for producers who want to retire from farming and transfer their business, this essential one-day workshop will walk you through the first steps in transferring your farm.
Benefits of attending
- Identify the components of a succession plan.
- Take the first step towards being fair to everyone… including yourself.
- Balance the needs of everyone in your family.
- Learn what steps to take if your children don’t want to farm.
- Learn how to prepare your business for your retirement.
- Get everyone in your family talking about a difficult subject.
Estate Planning
Estate planning is a subject not many people like to bring up, but once it's talked about, everyone feels better because it's the first step towards having a solid plan. This workshop will help bring your family together to discuss the details of estate planning and learn how to handle the issues surrounding what is often an unspoken topic.
Benefits of attending
- Get in-depth understanding about the steps involved in starting your estate plan.
- Learn how to protect your assets and your family.
- Gain valuable insight into potential tax strategies.
- Improve your expertise surrounding estate planning.
- Learn how to communicate your wishes surrounding your estate.
- Find peace in talking with your family about a difficult subject.
Vision and Goal Setting
You’re in the business of farming to succeed at what you love doing…why not have all the tools you need to do even better? Ideal for producers at all levels; this vital workshop will help you get on the right path to putting a vision and goals down on paper. Because having a plan means you’re on your way to working even more effectively.
Benefits of attending
- Understand the fundamentals of vision and goal setting.
- Take the first steps towards realizing increased success for your business.
- Develop a vision statement that’s been discussed with everyone involved.
- Learn how to make a long-term plan and stick to it.
- Gain vision and clarity that’s crucial to your operation’s success.
- Start bringing members of your operation together so you’re all going in the same direction.
Commodity Marketing Management
The nature of the agricultural industry changes constantly. Learning how to manage price risk can mean the difference between doing business…and creating success. During this two-day workshop, an expert will lead you through key strategies in price risk management and put you on the path towards developing your own commodity marketing plan.
Benefits of attending
- Increase your understanding of how commodity markets work.
- Learn how to maximize your revenue.
- Understand the importance of knowing your costs of production.
- Discover how to develop your own commodity marketing plan.
- Learn about futures and options.
- Identify how to hedge your price risk using futures and options.
- Increase your confidence in being in the commodity market.
Value Chain Management – Learn to Work Differently
See how value chains can affect what you sell, how you sell and how you build profitable partnerships. This two-day workshop shows you the earning possibilities when – instead of working harder – you work differently.
Benefits of attending
- gain insight into what value chains are and how they work
- learn how to think with the end purchase in mind, before you produce your product
- identify opportunities to build partnerships with industry players
- see where you can reduce cost and increase value
- open your mind to new ways of doing business
How to Register
As a valued FCC customer, your registration fees for workshops and seminars are waived. Non-FCC customers are welcome to attend for a nominal fee. Detailed fee structure for all AgriSuccess training is included below.
To register by phone:
Non-FCC customers only - Register and pay online
Fees
| Training opportunity | Non-FCC customer fee for individual | Non-FCC customer fee for family (up to 6 participants) | Duration |
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| Hiring Employees, Keeping Employees, Farm Financial Management – Statements and Ratios, Farm Financial Management – Profitability and Budgeting, Vision and Goal Setting, Estate Planning, and AgriSuccess Seminars | $75 | $100 | 4 hours |
| Hiring and Keeping Employees (2 workshops in one day) and Transferring the Family Farm | $100 | $125 | 6 – 8 hours |
| Commodity Marketing Management and Value Chain Management | $125 | $150 | 2 days |
Change, Cancellation and Refund Policy
Farm Credit Canada reserves the right to make changes in workshops and speakers. FCC also reserves the right to cancel workshops if not enough participants enroll or if circumstances beyond FCC’s control arise, such as a snow storm or if an instructor is unavailable.
Farm Credit Canada will make every effort to contact each participant if a workshop is cancelled. If a workshop is not held for any reason, Farm Credit Canada’s liability is limited to the refund of paid registration fees only.
Non FCC customers - Farm Credit Canada requires 72 hours notice if you wish to cancel your participation in this workshop. If you must cancel on shorter notice, FCC will not refund your workshop fees.
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