Business Planning

Keys to Successfully Choosing Enterprises That Suit Your Small Farm

Robert Hochmuth, Larry Halsey, George Hochmuth, and Linda Landrum

Expanding Florida's Farming Business to Incorporate Tourism

Wendy Francesconi and Taylor Stein

Principles for Developing Your Ecotourism Business Plan

Tinelle D. Bustam and Taylor Stein

Developing SMART Goals for Your Organization

Derek Farnsworth, Jennifer L. Clark, Henry Cothran, and Allen Wysocki

Value Added Agriculture: Is It Right for Me?

Edward Evans

Frequently Asked Questions for Small Business Start-Ups

Derek Farnsworth, Jennifer L. Clark, Henry Cothran, Allen Wysocki, and David Mulkey

Primer for Developing a Farm Business Plan

Edward A. Evans

How to Start a Food Business: Writing a Business Plan

Soohyoun Ahn, Alison O'Donoughue, Lisa House, and Renée Goodrich-Schneider

This factsheet is one in a "Food Entrepreneurship in Florida" series that assists beginning and established food entrepreneurs by providing them information on topics highly relevant to starting and running a food business: regulations, safety, labeling, processing, and marketing. This series serves as a useful guide to help make a business plan and determine the feasibility of starting a food business.

Free business-planning, tax management workshop for farmers and ranchers at UF/IFAS Extension Miami-Dade

Lourdes Mederos

Operating an agribusiness such as a farm or ranch successfully requires strong financial skills to ensure profitability and sustainability. Agribusiness managers can enhance their business operations by filing tax returns that take advantage of proper deductions and credits. Other relevant business skills include: How to set up a robust business plan with solid strategies. How […]

Planning A Tropical Fruit Grove

Jessica M. Ryals

Planning a successful tropical fruit grove takes a lot of time, resources and understanding of what your goals for production are. When done well, you are not only rewarded with good harvests but also a reduction in mistakes, better use of financial resources and the upper hand on the management of the business and maintenance […]

Question: How Do I Start a Food Business in Collier County?

Jessica M. Ryals

Question: I’m an entrepreneur looking to start a food product related business in Collier County. But where do I start? How can I find information on business planning, product development and regulations? And what process do I need to go through to sell my food product to restaurants or large grocery store chains? Collier County […]