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PASTURE BASED DAIRY/LIVESTOCK - MANAGING THE BUSINESS

FISC 73
课程描述

Course covers grass-fed production and marketing, risk management (specifically of pasture-based farms), pasture soil nutrient management, grazing and natural resource management, and ecological restoration through livestock. Students will present their business plans to a panel of lenders. Students will be required to attend four evening Business Plan Writing Workshops. This is the final course in the two-course series of the Wisconsin School for Beginning Dairy/Livestock Farmers (WSBDF) program.

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This course does not satisfy any prerequisites.

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