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No Straight Road: How can family farm businesses seize opportunities from volatility and change?

Broadcast Date: February 4, 2010, 8:40 AM EST
Series: Managing Excellence in Agriculture Conference 2010
Presented By: Rob Napier
Theme: Business Management

Rob Napier will focus on current events, emerging trends and innovations on the horizon and ways to seize these new opportunities.
These include:

  • The demand for farms to be multi-functional including making money from the provision of environmental services
  • Opportunities for agriculture to contribute to global energy demands
  • Opportunities for family farms to add businesses (related & unrelated to agriculture) and value-adding services
  • Seizing opportunities from new technologies
  • Understanding how to benefit from the changing demands of consumers
  • Harnessing and controlling the increasingly valuable resource of water
  • Achieving comparative advantage in information management
  • Profiting from both the farm operating business and the increasing value of land
  • Managing in a world where volatility is a certainty
  • Seizing the opportunities and avoiding the threats from changing government policies (domestic & international)
  • Integrating farm businesses with other industries - health, recreation, tourism, restaurants, etc.

Rob Napier will divulge management responses using real-world family farm examples to demonstrate how both small and large family businesses can likewise embrace change and seize outlying opportunities for continued success.

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