Information to Start Gathering

For Your Case Farm

Balance sheet – will have assets listed

If not you need an inventory

Inventory would be helpful in any case

Acres owned

Acres rented

- Share rent

- Cash rent

What produced

- Acres

- # head

Productivity

- Yield/acre

- Pigs/litter

- Market weight/price

- Purchase weight/cost

- # milk/cow

Fertilizer Applied – how much

Labor – family

Labor available

Cost of production

How much feed fed/animal

Flow of Product through System

Crops

Animals

Animal product

Visit about goals

Visit about strategic plan ideas

Financial Capacity/Borrowing Capacity

Marketing Plans

Available Skills