Leverage Your Organic Advantage

Leverage Your Organic Advantage will help to answer the following questions:

• What does it take to go from a great idea to a sustainable business?
• Where are the opportunities?
• Do I want really want to farm as a business?
• Why am I making this choice?
• Can I really have both values and viability?
• What are my organic advantages?

The intended audience

• Those dreaming about starting a sustainable farm or food business
• Existing operations looking for new ideas, inspiration and tactics

Overview:

The choices made in the start-up phase can position an enterprise for long-term profitability and sustainability, control over its destiny and the opportunity for exceptional results. It is a universal truth for all businesses, but especially critical for people exploring ventures in the sustainable farming and food sector. There are many challenges to achieving profitability; global competition, centralized distribution, and price-conscious consumers detached from food sources and seasonality. These external factors, combined with the high costs of entry, long days and multiple skill requirements (production, finance and marketing) can conspire to derail even the most energetic, optimistic, idealistic and well funded start-up.
Full article is at: http://www.gov.ns.ca/agri/bde/news/pdfs/Leverage%20summary.pdf
Presented at the 2008 Guelph Organic Conference, January 2008

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