FCC Workshops
Where do you want your operation to be in five years? Do you know how to get there? Find out with FCC workshops. In each workshop, you'll focus on a specific farm management skill that you can use in your operation.
- Advanced Commodity Marketing Management
- Commodity Marketing Management
- Estate Planning
- Farm Financial Management – Statements and Ratios
- Farm Financial Management – Profitability and Budgeting
- High Performance Management
- Hiring and Keeping Employees
- Transferring the Farm
- The Ultimate Farm Management Challenge: Working with your family
- Vision and Goal Setting
Advanced Commodity Marketing Management
This one-day workshop is a follow-up to the initial Commodity Marketing Management workshop. Walk through topics like cost of production statements, determine exact financial risk, cash flow objectives for your farm as well as advanced options on futures structures. This is a must-attend for producers who want to take their commodity marketing tool kit to the next level.
Benefits of attending
- advance your knowledge of how to prepare your cost of production statements
- measure your financial risk for the current year
- learn to put together a detailed selling plan for your cash crops
- see how to limit your price risk but still benefit if prices move higher
- explore advanced options strategies that reflect your price expectations
Commodity Marketing Management
During this two-day workshop, you'll learn key strategies in price risk management and put yourself on the path towards developing your own price risk management plan. You'll be able to better prepare for market downturns and take advantage of growing commodity prices. By understanding how to manage price risk, you can be ready for whatever the markets throw at you. It's the difference between doing business and creating success. Whether you have a background in commodity marketing or you're just starting out, you'll walk away with new information, tools and insights.
Benefits of attending
- learn about futures and options
- understand how commodity markets work and what influences them
- understand the importance of knowing your costs of production.
- develop your own commodity marketing plan
- maximize your revenue
Estate Planning
Estate planning is a subject not many people like to bring up, but once it's talked about, everyone feels better because it's the first step towards having a solid plan. And it's something that's never too early or too late to talk about. This workshop will help bring your family together to discuss your estate plans. You'll learn how to protect your assets for years to come while handling the issues surrounding what is often an unspoken topic.
Benefits of attending
- get in-depth understanding about the steps involved in starting your estate plan
- learn how to protect your assets and your family
- gain valuable insight into potential tax strategies and legal issues
- gain valuable insight into potential tax strategies and legal issues
- learn how to communicate your wishes surrounding your estate.
- find peace in talking with your family about a difficult subject
Farm Financial Management - Statements and Ratios
Perhaps you're the type of person who likes to keep your numbers in your head, but find yourself considering a better way to use accounting. Then it's time to understand how to put the numbers to work for you. This workshop will help you advance your knowledge of statements and ratios so you can analyze your operation better and maximize your financial performance. By understanding your numbers, you'll make more effective decisions for your operation.
Benefits of attending
- learn how to calculate ratios and use your financial statements to analyze your operation
- know how to use financial knowledge to make better decisions
- better monitor your operation's performance
- gain clarity about where you stand financially
- educate your family and business partners in managing your finances
Farm Financial Management - Profitability and Budgeting
If you have your accounting in order, this is the next step. Learn to improve how you analyze your operation, see trends and make management decisions. As you manage your business, decisions about the future of your operation continue to arise. Discovering how to interpret your numbers will make a big difference to what you end up doing. By seeing the big picture, you'll increase control over your accounting and have more control over your profits.
Benefits of attending
- prepare a detailed annual budget
- set a profit target each season
- understand what effect expanding or downsizing could have on your costs and revenues
- know what information is important to focus on, and what isn't
- train the next generation to understand the financial operation of the farm
High Performance Management
Your operation is growing but are you maximizing your management potential? Focus on the four pillars of management: production, marketing, human resources and finance. Crank up your management and balance your operation to achieve your ultimate potential.
Benefits of attending
- learn new skills and techniques to integrate production, marketing, human resources and finance for your operation
- increase your management skills on par with your growing business
- develop a balanced approach to grow your business
- network with visionary producers and entrepreneurs
Hiring and Keeping Employees
Better employees make a better workplace. The first step is knowing how to hire the right people - the second is how to keep them. By learning how to attract and manage your employees, you'll develop them to their full potential and keep them motivated, so you can focus on growing your operation. Whether you're hiring permanent or seasonal employees, it's a big investment. This workshop teaches you how to hire and keep them.
Benefits of attending
- learn what process to follow when finding and hiring an employee
- manage employees so you have more time to focus on other areas of business
- create strategies to motivate employees beyond using money
- discover why people stay with their jobs and why they leave them
- understand how to manage employees who are also family members
Transferring the Farm
Transferring the farm can be an emotional issue for everyone. Finding out what's involved can bring you and your family that much closer to having peace of mind. Designed for producers who want to retire from farming and transfer their business, this essential one-day workshop will walk you through the first steps in transferring your farm.
Benefits of attending
- identify the components of a succession plan
- take the first step towards being fair to everyone, including yourself
- balance the needs of everyone in your family
- learn what steps to take if your children don't want to farm
- learn how to prepare your business for your retirement
- get everyone in your family talking about a difficult subject
The Ultimate Farm Management Challenge: Working with your family
You care about your family, so it should be easy to work together, right? Not always. Dr. John G. Fast offers insights and best practices to help your family handle its management and succession challenges with creativity, boldness and a spirit of mutual caring. As the founder of the Centre for Family Business, John has helped hundreds of Canadian farm families find out how to work together and grow their operations into profitable farm businesses.
Benefits of attending
- avoid some of the habits that destroy the farm family business
- decide what “fair” means and optimize sibling partnerships
- use your family's strengths to prepare high-performing successors
- set goals and get started with your family's five-step succession plan
Vision and Goal Setting
You're in the business of farming to succeed at what you love doing. Why not have all the tools you need to do even better? Ideal for producers at all levels, whether you're just starting out or need to take action on some big ideas. This workshop will help you get on the right path to putting a vision and goals down on paper. With everyone in your operation going in the same direction, you'll enjoy a more effective workplace.
Benefits of attending
- understand the fundamentals of effective vision and goal setting
- develop a vision statement that's been discussed with everyone involved
- learn how to make a long-term plan and stick to it
- gain vision and clarity that's crucial to your operation's success
- bring members of your operation together so you're all going the same direction
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