{"id":649,"date":"2026-10-02T09:30:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T13:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vtsare\/?p=649"},"modified":"2026-10-02T09:30:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T13:30:57","slug":"the-basics-of-farm-business-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vtsare\/2026\/10\/02\/the-basics-of-farm-business-planning\/","title":{"rendered":"The Basics of Farm Business Planning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"block-canvas-cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"is-root-container is-desktop-preview is-layout-flow wp-block-post-content block-editor-block-list__layout\">\n<div id=\"block-57c75d68-dcfd-478a-8229-bb6d3dcde669\" class=\"block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-freeform is-hovered\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"document\" aria-label=\"Block: Classic\" data-block=\"57c75d68-dcfd-478a-8229-bb6d3dcde669\" data-type=\"core\/freeform\" data-title=\"Classic\">\n<div>\n<p class=\"mcnTextContent\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-527 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vtsare\/files\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-10-at-1.32.43\u202fPM-300x223.png\" alt=\"The Basics of Farm Business Planning with photo of person holding bucket surrounded by goats.\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vtsare\/files\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-10-at-1.32.43\u202fPM-300x223.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vtsare\/files\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-10-at-1.32.43\u202fPM.png 562w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><strong><a title=\"https:\/\/sare.us20.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=76cd8ae318dcb51ec0647e11d&amp;id=acc9dd7108&amp;e=37ec8dc123\" href=\"https:\/\/sare.us20.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=76cd8ae318dcb51ec0647e11d&amp;id=acc9dd7108&amp;e=37ec8dc123\" data-outlook-id=\"cdda0469-319e-42b8-9866-e97bac6f49fc\">The Basics of Farm Business Planning<\/a> (<\/strong>June 2025)\u00a0offers a framework to help farmers clarify their goals, evaluate their resources, and build financially and ecologically sound enterprises. Developed with input from experienced farmers and educators, the guide introduces five essential planning steps: Identifying values; understanding your farm\u2019s history and current situation; defining vision, mission and goals; strategic planning and evaluation; and implementing and monitoring. Hard copies of the bulletin is<i> <\/i>available in quantity for free to educators for use in educational workshops, classes or tours.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Basics of Farm Business Planning (June 2025)\u00a0offers a framework to help farmers clarify their goals, evaluate their resources, and build financially and ecologically sound enterprises. Developed with input from experienced farmers and educators, the guide introduces five essential planning steps: Identifying values; understanding your farm\u2019s history and current situation; defining vision, mission and goals; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vtsare\/2026\/10\/02\/the-basics-of-farm-business-planning\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Basics of Farm Business Planning<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":243,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[544224],"tags":[544225],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farm-business","tag-bulletins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vtsare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vtsare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vtsare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vtsare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/243"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vtsare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vtsare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vtsare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions\/650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vtsare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vtsare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/vtsare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}