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Is Food Service Right for Your Brand?
10 minute read of Free article by Edible-Alpha®
Have you overlooked a lucrative sales channel? Learn about the boundless opportunities for food and ag entrepreneurs to thrive in the diverse food service sector.
Article about Business Models for businesses that are Growing and Scaling
Hill Valley Dairy Broadens Family Legacy
1 hour 3 minutes Free read by Edible-Alpha®
Ron Henningfeld, owner and cheesemaker at Hill Valley Dairy, drops by to discuss putting his own spin on a family farm business and expanding into new opportunities.
Podcast about Business Models for businesses that are Growing and Scaling
Farmer Brothers Distill Grains into Profits
1 hour 5 minutes Free read by Edible-Alpha®
Andy interviews Will Glazik of Cow Creek Organic Farm and Silver Tree Beer & Spirits to learn how he and his brothers are building upon their family farming legacy with a consumer brand and their own grain distillery
Podcast about Business Models for businesses that are Growing and Scaling
Are You Sure Your Business Will Work?
10 minute read of Free article by Edible-Alpha®
When entrepreneurs’ assumptions about customers or markets miss the mark, their startups frequently flounder. Early-stage food and farm businesses should test assumptions early to save time, energy, and money and set the stage for success.
Article about Business Models for businesses that are Startups | Pre-Venture | Growing and Scaling
Getting All The Way to a Strategic Investment In Your Food Company
50 minutes of Free audio by Edible-Alpha®
Stephen and Chris McDiarmid of Gorilly Goods, a certified organic raw healthy snack maker in Jackson, Wisconsin talk about how their dehydration process and unique flavor profiles make them defensibly unique from other snack brands and how focusing on pitching their business model led to strategic investment in their company.
Podcast about Business Models for businesses that are Growing and Scaling
Equity Crowdfunding
15 minutes of Free video by Edible-Alpha®
Equity-based crowdfunding (not to be confused with donation or rewards-based crowdfunding) is a new industry and it may not be worth pursuing as a source of capital for such small amounts of money from so many investors who now have an ownership stake in the business.
Video about Raising Capital for businesses that are Growing and Scaling
Fearless Farm Finances (The Book And Online Videos)
5+ hours of Free video (Book is Paid) by Edible-Alpha®
The updated Fearless Farm Finances 2nd Edition is a one-of-a-kind resource packed with instructions, tips and tools for setting up and managing a farm's financial system. Fearless Farm Finances covers farm financial management, farm data collection/organization, farm investment analysis, enterprise budgets, annual budgeting, business structure decisions, and more.
Books or Guide about Operations for businesses that are Growing and Scaling
Food Hubs with Tara Roberts-Turner of the Wisconsin Food Hub Cooperative
55 minutes of Free audio by Edible-Alpha®
Due to its business model, Wisconsin Food Hub Co-op needed to reach at least $3.3 million in sales to break even. To maintain their margins, they built capacity through adequate staffing and have cheap warehouse space close to their farmers which serves only cooling and aggregation/distribution functions, rather than other forms of value-added processing.
Podcast about Business Models for businesses that are Growing and Scaling
Organic Agriculture in Wisconsin: 2017 Status Report
44 pages of Free report content by University of Wisconsin-Madison
According to data from the USDA National Organic Program (NOP), Wisconsin had 1,334 organic farms in 2015, nearly doubling over the last 10 years. Wisconsin remains the second state in the nation in total number of organic farms, second only to California. Wisconsin ranks third behind California and Montana in the number of organic acres.
Books or Guide about Operations for businesses that are Growing and Scaling
A Farmer’s Guide To A Pick-Your-Own Operation
28 pages of Free report content by University of Tennessee Extension
Producers interested in a Pick Your Own (PYO) farming business model should analyze whether or not market potential exists before developing the enterprise. Farmers should conduct a market analysis to determine if a potentially profitable market exists for their PYO.
Books or Guide about Business Models for businesses that are Growing and Scaling