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Farm & Food Business Start-Up Training

• Saturday, February 22, 2025, 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
• Wednesday, February 26, 2025, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
• Wednesday, March 5, 2025, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
• Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
• Wednesday, March 19, 2025, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
• Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
• Wednesday, April 2, 2025, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
• Wednesday, April 9, 2025, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
• Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Farm & Food Business Start Up Training

Saturday February 22nd, 9am-1pm: The Basics of Starting & Operating a Business
Wednesdays, February 26th-April 16th, Noon-1pm: Zoom Webinar Series

Join Cornell Cooperative Extension Broome County, the Small Business Development Center at Binghamton University (SBDC), and the Small Business Administration, along with guest presenters each week as we explore various aspects of a viable farm or food business, and apply it to your own business concept.

We will kick off this training with an in-person workshop on Saturday, February 22nd, from 9am-1pm where we will explore various aspects of starting and operating a farm or food business. This will include understanding the options for business structures, creating a business idea which meets your goals, branding and marketing, etc.. This will take place at the Koffman Southern Tier Incubator.

Then over the next eight weeks we will cover the following topics in a weekly webinar series, taking place on Wednesdays, from Noon to 1pm.

During the eight weeks we will cover the following:

• Session One: Packaging, Distribution & Labeling
• Session Two: Finance, part one (Cost of Goods Sold - Project Costs worksheet)
• Session Three: Finance part two (Importance of Recordkeeping, using Schedule C & F)
• Session Four: Customer Identification
• Session Five Marketing & Websites, etc…
• Session Six: Legal & Insurance/Risk Management
• Session Seven: Lending Resources/Accessing Financing
• Session Eight: Labor (Recruitment, Retention, Training, Safety, Payroll, etc..):

Overall goals for this entire series is to help farm and food business entrepreneurs create a strong local support network, building their toolbox, and emerge with a realistic and viable business idea that can be implemented or expanded upon in the near future.

Guest presenters will include:

• farm accountant
• agricultural lender
• lawyer
• insurance/risk management, and
• a panel of established farm and food businesses.

FSA borrower training credits application under review.

Cost: $100/farm, includes Entreskills tool, access to experts, and confidential consultations with both CCE Broome and the SBDC for up to one year. This will cover two attendees at the February 22nd in-person event and all webinar presentations. Payment must be received to hold spot. Refunds only available up to one week prior to the start of the series.

Fee

$100/business

Register

https://reg.cce.cornell.edu/2025ccesbdcstartuptraining_203

Last updated December 18, 2024