Building a Sustainable Business

Building a Sustainable Business: A Guide to Developing a Business Plan for Farms and Rural Businesses brings the business planning process alive to help today's alternative and sustainable agriculture entrepreneurs transform farm-grown inspiration into profitable enterprises.Sample worksheets lend a practical perspective and illustrate how real farm families set goals, researched processing alternatives, determined potential markets, and evaluated financing options. Blank worksheets help the reader develop a detailed, lender-ready business plan or map out strategies to take advantage of new opportunities.

• This publication is also available in the following formats:
  • Abbreviated Spanish version from the University of Missouri at http://agebb.missouri.edu/sustain/espanol/negocios.pdf
  • Individuals chapters and worksheets from the Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture at http://www.misa.umn.edu/Publications/BuildingaSustainableBusiness/index.htm