6 pages, Profit teams comprise multiple consultants engaged to support farmer decision making by holistically analyzing farm challenges. We tested the idea of using profit teams to help advanced beginning farmers, those who are beyond start-up but have been in business less than 10 years, address constraints to growing their businesses. These new entrepreneurs often have entered agriculture without a family farming history or a connection to Extension. We describe the processes of selecting farmers and administering teams, and we highlight significant improvements in quality of life, production, and profitability reported by 35 farmers. Our lessons learned may guide other educators and funders in developing profit teams for their beginning farmer clients.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 196 Document Number: D08059
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John L. Woods Collection, Original set of visuals introducing a development assistance program service offered by Chemonics International, Inc., Washington, D. C. 13 visuals.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 196 Document Number: D08052
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John L. Woods Collection, Templates for training plans and scopes of work for developing field worker programs. Prepared by StratCom program of Chemonics International, Inc., Washington, D. C. 9 pages.
