Fruit

Sessions are organized by date below. To learn more about a specific session, click on the session title.

Recordings from previous year's presentations are organized below. To watch the video of a specific session, click on the video image.

 

 

 

Upcoming Sessions

  • Feb 24

    MI Ag Ideas to Grow With

    February 24, 2025 – March 7, 2025 Zoom

    Unique virtual experience encompassing all aspects of the agricultural industry.

Session Recordings

  • Farm Budgets: Growing Your Farm into a Business (2024)

    Published on February 28, 2024

    How important is a business mindset and farm profits to your opportunities for growth and success? Join as we discuss how attention to details and effective planning can help your farm continue its growth into a successful business.

  • Beyond the Farmers Market: Evaluating Direct Market Channel Opportunities

    Published on February 23, 2024

    Where are you selling, or planning to sell your products? How do you make these decisions? We’ll talk about perceptions, realities, pros and cons of farmers markets, farm markets, CSAs, restaurant sales, institutional markets and more!

  • Beginning Fruit

    Published on February 21, 2024

    Nothing compares to farm fresh fruit, but growing fruit can be a little more complicated than one would initially think. This session will cover the basics of fruit production and dispel some common myths that viral videos might have led you to believe

  • Enterprise Budgeting for Beginning Farm Decision-makers

    Published on February 21, 2024

    Further develop management skills in agriculture production systems by focusing on enterprise budgets and cost of production, including cost of production, economic profit, and understanding enterprise budgets in production agriculture.

  • The Three Fs of Farmland: Finding it, Funding it, and the Future of it.

    Published on February 20, 2024

    Land access is often the biggest challenge for beginning farmers. Learn tools to find farmland, fund it, and to keep it farmland for future generations.

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