We Can Take I'd like to share with you a few of the actions that we hope to achieve during the session today. Provide information on both short and long-term trends affecting commodity outlook and implications for farm families and business strategies. Help to realize the situation in order to motivate needed changes in family budgets and farming operations. Help assess on a realistic basis both farm and family financial situations. Unless farmers have the needed information from which to base decisions, full results cannot be expected.
General recommendations are of little use in financial planning.
Each farm situation is different even if the commodities grown are similar. Help analyze alternatives for the farm. Evaluate new enterprises, cost reduction and production strategies and marketing alternatives. Help families set clear and realistic family and business goals and provide plans that will help achieve such goals. Provide stress and emotional management resources.