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Category: Management
General Business Management Posts.
Calculating Break-Even Price or Sales Volume, or how will I know when the price is too low?
Every farmer has faced a scenario where they wonder if it’s worth planting or harvesting a crop. Knowing the price you need to receive or the volume you need to sell at a given price (or some combination of the two) can be helpful in determining whether or not an enterprise is likely to be profitable. A cost/volume/price analysis is the method that you can use to do this calculation.
Resources to Minimize the Language Barrier
At the 2024 Becker Forum in Syracuse, hosted by the New York State Vegetable Growers Association, farm owners requested some resources from the Cornell Agricultural Workforce Development to help bridge the gap between language barriers. Below are some of the tools to help your workforce overcome some of these common issues on farm:
Cornell Webinar Series Research on Customer Spending at NY Farmers Markets
Do you sell at a farmers market or your own farm store in New York? Are you interested in getting assistance with using and analyzing point of sale data to boost sales and revenues? Matt LeRoux and Todd Schmit at Cornell’s Agricultural Marketing Research Program are working with NY’s farms to collect data using POS Read More…
Understanding the Nuances of Farm Business Taxes
by Elizabeth Higgins, CCE ENYCHP Taxes can get confusing because there are many different definitions of a farm business used by different programs. In New York State many purchases for a commercial farm business are exempt from sales tax if the item will be used more than 50% for the business. Commercial farm businesses in Read More…
NYS Farm Directory Launching in June 2022
CCE Staff, Ithaca, New York As part of Cornell Cooperative Extension’s role in strengthening New York State agriculture, we are helping to spread word of the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets’ plans to launch a statewide online Farm Directory. The Farm Directory, which launches in mid-June, will connect consumers to producers of Read More…