Hudson Valley Location

The Eastern NY Commercial Hort Team and the Lake Ontario Fruit Team are offering a 1-day, hands-on course at 5 locations in NYS in January and February for tree fruit farms on using farm financial information and other resources to make decisions about long-term investments or changes to their business.  We will apply the techniques covered in the 8-part webinar series in December to scenarios using sample financial data from fruit farms in NYS.  You will work with others in a group through a series of problems and leave with a better sense of how you can organize and interpret your own financial information to make better long-term investment decisions about your farm business.  The class is scheduled from 9:00 to 4:00.  The fee for the class is $25pp to cover the cost of lunch/break food ($20 if you register early).  The remainder of the cost of the program is covered by a grant from NERME (Northeast Risk Management Education).

Topics to be covered will include: 

• How to use your financial records to evaluate your farm's performance
• Using Excel for analysis
• How to develop enterprise budgets and use tools like cost allocation, sensitivity analysis, net present value and payback period to assess the viability of a long-term change.

Everyone will leave with a resource book and template excel forms.

If you missed the December sessions, they will be available on-line to review prior to the class.

Dates and Registration links: 

• January 11, CCE Orleans County  https://enych.cce.cornell.edu/event_preregistration_new.php?id=1704
• January 12, CCE Wayne County https://enych.cce.cornell.edu/event_preregistration_new.php?id=1715
• January 17,  CCE Saratoga County https://enych.cce.cornell.edu/event_preregistration_new.php?id=1718
• February 7, HV Lab in Highland https://enych.cce.cornell.edu/event_preregistration_new.php?id=1716
• February 9^, CCE Clinton County https://enych.cce.cornell.edu/event_preregistration_new.php?id=1717