Grow a Successful Agritourism Business! Successful Agritourism Farmer Panel
November 2, 2018
Bringing visitors to your farm can create new income streams but agritourism can also be a source of risk to your farm business. Five lunchtime seminars will teach how to assess and manage different risks to help develop a successful agritourism business. The seminars will be followed by a panel of successful agritourism operators. In-between each seminar, participants will build on their knowledge to develop their own risk management plan.
This 5-county program will be offered simultaneously in Delaware (the host county), and by Zoom technology in Otsego/Schoharie, Sullivan and Ulster Counties. The Ulster County site, hosted by Liz Higgins of the Eastern NY Commercial Hort Team, will be at the Hudson Valley Lab
The program is sponsored by the Northeast Extension Risk Management Education agency and Cornell Cooperative Extension of Delaware, Otsego/Schoharie, and Sullivan County and the Eastern NY Commercial Hort. Team.
For more information about the Ulster County site, contact Elizabeth Higgins emh56@cornell.edu.
For information about the overall program, contact Mariane Kiraly, CCE Delaware County mk129@cornell.edu.
To
register for the Schoharie or Otsego County sites contact David Cox
dgc23@cornell.eduTo
register for the Sullivan County site contact Melinda Meddaugh
mm2592@cornell.eduTo register for the
Ulster County session, see the link below:
Date/Time Topic
- Friday 9/28 Introduction to Risk Management; Assessing and Managing Your Financial Risk from Agritourism
- Friday 10/5 Assessing and Managing Your Production/Weather Risk From Agritourism
- Friday 10/12 Assessing and Managing Your Legal Risk From Agritourism
- Friday 10/19 Assessing and Managing Your Marketing Risk From Agritourism
- Friday 10/26 Assessing and Managing Your Human Resource Risk From Agritourism
- Friday 11/2 Agritourism Farmer Panel
There is no fee to attend, feel free to bring your own lunch. Snacks and beverages will be provided. Please RSVP to emh56@cornell.edu or by using the registration form so that we can have ensure that we have adequate room and resources.