{"id":334,"date":"2013-09-20T17:14:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T21:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/?p=334"},"modified":"2013-09-20T17:14:40","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T21:14:40","slug":"conducting-an-initial-dairy-business-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/?p=334","title":{"rendered":"Conducting an Initial Dairy Business Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What are the key questions that reveal the strengths and weaknesses of a dairy business? <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/files\/2013\/09\/DSC_0283.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-336\" alt=\"DSC_0283\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/files\/2013\/09\/DSC_0283-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/files\/2013\/09\/DSC_0283-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/files\/2013\/09\/DSC_0283-448x300.jpg 448w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/files\/2013\/09\/DSC_0283.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The UVM Extension\u00a0 Farm Viability team regularly meets farm managers for the first time with the goal of asking the right questions that will enable everyone to reflect on the business. We have just posted the<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/?page_id=26\"> Dairy SWOT Analysis Worksheet<\/a> that we take out to the farm to guide the conversations. The same sheet can be completed by dairy managers who want to evaluate their business by themselves. This worksheet helps break the ice with basic farm questions while making sure you catch the details of feed, facilities, services and personality that impact the business.<\/p>\n<p>To go direct to the Dairy SWOT analysis, click this link:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/files\/2013\/03\/FBWS-007-6-13_Dairy-SWOT-Analysis-Worksheet.pdf\">http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/files\/2013\/03\/FBWS-007-6-13_Dairy-SWOT-Analysis-Worksheet.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the full resource library, click this link:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/?page_id=26\">http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/?page_id=26<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are the key questions that reveal the strengths and weaknesses of a dairy business? The UVM Extension\u00a0 Farm Viability team regularly meets farm managers for the first time with the goal of asking the right questions that will enable &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/?p=334\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1598,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52812],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1598"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/farmvia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}