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Water Street Solutions Offering 3 Scholarships – Deadline March 14, 2014

PrintWe are excited to share this information in our local area!  If you have a senior or know of one that plans to attend college for an agricultural related, four year program, please share this information with them.

Water Street Solutions is offering three AFA National Leader and Academic Scholarships   to students from the following states: Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio and South Dakota.  Students eligible to receive the Water Street Solutions scholarships include graduating high school seniors that meet the criteria above and current college students who are majoring in agriculture related, four year degree programs.

Agriculture Future of America provides support to future leaders in agriculture from across the country through the AFA Leader and Academic Scholarship program. Scholarships seek to identify young leaders in the agriculture and food industry to enter AFA’s leader development program and receive an academic scholarship to support their academic education.

Applications are now open and are being accepted through March 14, 2014.

APPLY HERE

How Can You Benefit From A SWOT Plan?

SWOT PlanningSWOT is a simple system that can be used to analyze your business.

So what does SWOT stand for?
S – Strengths
W- Weaknesses
O – Opportunities
T- Threats

Reviewing each of these areas for your farm business will help you formulate better strategies. During your analysis, consider each section of SWOT with realism and try to be specific. It is worth your time!

Benefits of Using SWOT

  • Recognizing where your business can grow.
  • Understanding the possible hurdles.
  • Focusing on how to be competitive.
  • Anticipating threats and how to be proactive vs. reactive.

Internal vs. External

Strengths & Weaknesses – Both strengths and weaknesses are internal. Here is where you have the most control. Control over what crops to decide to grow, how to plant, nurture the crop during the growing season and how you sell your crop.

Opportunities & Threats – Opportunities and threats are external. They are things that you cannot change nor control; such as land for sale and at what cost, unpredictable storms, excessive rain or drought, and grain market prices.

Additional Resources

Many businesses both small and large have used SWOT. Doing an analysis such as this will give you a starting point to your individual plan. It will allow you to look at the big picture and take action by controlling what you can, reducing threats and positioning yourself to take advantage of any opportunities that come along.

Let Corn Capital Innovations assist you with creating a plan for your farm business in 2014. Contact us today!

For the Future of Your Farm – Attend the Ag Edge Farm Business Seminar in Willmar, MN Feb. 17-18

“Farming is a system — a dynamic one — requiring increasing management skills. Plan forward for success, integrating the systems of your business with the people in and around your business.”

Ag-Edge-SM-WSS-CCICorn Capital Innovations is excited to be co-sponsoring the Ag Edge Farm Business Seminar  with Water Street Solutions on February 17-18th, 2014 in Willmar, Minnesota. To have a conference of this caliber right in your own backyard is something you don’t want to miss!

Attending Ag Edge will provide you with a lot of usable content on a variety of topics that you deal with every year.  Imagine getting quality information that will take your farming business to the next level, plus actual ideas that you can put to use immediately! Learn from CCI’s own Scott and Steve O’Neill at the Agronomy Round Table.

Key Reasons to Attend:

  • Invest In You
  • Plan forward for success on your farm
  • Build relationships with other farmers
  • Increase management skills
  • Learn how to survive and thrive in a family business
  • Leverage your business relationships with landlords & lenders

Learning Sessions:

  • “Farm Metrics You Can Count On.” Darren Frye, Water Street Solutions President & CEO
  • “Managing in the Great Super Cycle of Agriculture.” Dr. David Kohl, Professor Emeritius, Ag Economics, Virginia Tech
  • “Making Sense of the Markets.” Arlan Suderman, Respected Analyst
  • “Top Ten Stupid Things Families Do to Break Up Their Business?” Jolene Brown, CSP

Seminar Information:

Do you plan on attending the more than eight learning sessions and upgrading your competitive advantage?

See you in February!

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