num_pages: 224
description: Contrary to popular belief a good living can be made on an organic farm. Whats required is farming smarter not harder. In The Organic Farmers Business Handbook  Richard Wiswall shares advice on how to make your vegetable production more efficient better manage your employees and finances and turn a profit. From his twenty-seven years of experience at Cate Farm in Vermont Wiswall knows firsthand the joys of starting and operating an organic farmas well as the challenges of making a living from one. Farming offers fundamental satisfaction from producing food working outdoors being ones own boss and working intimately with nature. But unfortunately many farmers avoid learning about the business end of farming; because of this they often work harder than they need to or quit farming altogether because of frustratingand often avoidablelosses. In this comprehensive business kit Wiswall A companion CD offers valuable business tools including easy-to-use spreadsheets for projecting cash flow a payroll calculator comprehensive crop budgets for forty different crops and tax planners.
language: English
title: The Organic Farmer's Business Handbook: A Complete Guide to Managing Finances, Crops, and Staff - and Making a Profit
publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing