Agriculture committee  That's just it, it's figuring out what that measurement is. For a lot of farmers, it's the bottom line. It's the profitability. I'm speaking very generally and I apologize, but it's what do you attribute your profitability to? If that's your measure, if all you care about is pro

Agriculture committee  Exactly.

Agriculture committee  Yes.

Agriculture committee  I hope you don't mind if I answer. I'm seeing a huge discrepancy in the definition of business management, and I think it is taken for granted. I think it's assumed that business management is the everyday practice, the common sense, and it's not taken as something that you need

Agriculture committee  That's a fairly large question. We do a lot of things. I don't know where to start, quite frankly--

Agriculture committee  Okay. We have a national website, and it's a national umbrella for farm business management information. We disseminate information via articles. There is a different article every day giving sound advice from third parties and partners, but our writers also seek out pertinent

Agriculture committee  We look at it to the extent we can, because a lot of the data coming back is anecdotal. We know that a farmer participating in a given course or a series of courses was inspired to go back to school, for instance. Figuring out what that means for them, and what that means for the

Agriculture committee  To be successful, on our part, we must adopt best management practices, including planning, feasibility, collaboration, management, benchmarking, innovation, adaptation, knowledge transfer, and performance measurement. We must identify the critical pieces of the puzzle to surroun

Agriculture committee  The following are our specific recommendations with respect to the industry's needs to facilitate competitive enterprises. On messaging and promotion, we need support for continuing education and lifelong learning and to help build a culture of business management. We also need

Agriculture committee  Do I have time for more?

Agriculture committee  I'm going to do the English portion of the presentation. Much of the solution to dealing with our intensifying realities lies in applying proven business practices and fostering innovative business thinking. Merriam-Webster defines management as the “judicious use of means to