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.NAFDMA NEWS
Registration NOW OPEN for NAFDMA's 2021 Virtual Summit, February 4-6
NAFDMA's 2021 Virtual Agritourism Summit offers three days of engaging programming including fourteen educational sessions, five immersive farm tours, a virtual trade show and many opportunities to keep attendees connected with one another throughout the experience.
The Virtual Agritourism Summit is a one-time only streaming event, so please plan your schedule accordingly as the event will not be rebroadcast.
For over 35 years NAFDMA has hosted a live annual convention revered by the agritourism industry, and we now take great pride in our ability to translate the value of education, networking and camaraderie into this virtual platform.
Join us Feb. 4-6, 2021 starting at 11am ET/8am PT each day.
Purchase a virtual trade show booth.
Sponsor the event.
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Financial Tools For Business Owners Webinar Series
Presented by Steve Kluemper
 December 8, 2020 (Recording Available)
Clarifying Competitive Strengths To Achieve Success And Maximize Return On Assets
Why are you in business? There are returns that you want from being in business. Some are personal. Some are strategic. Some are financial. How do you measure these returns to set goals and assess your level of success? What does success look like for you? What are the competitive assets and strengths of your business that are going to generate these returns? How do you maximize returns on these assets and strengths?
In this webinar, Steve will help you answer these questions and walk you through a tool that you can use to measure and maximize your return on assets and as a framework for other returns.
January 12, 2021
Communicating Your Sense Of Direction With A Business Plan
What does your business do? Who asks this question? Who needs to know? How do you communicate with them? What should your business do? What could your business do? What is your vision and sense of direction for your business? How do you gather insights into these questions from others and share your own insights with them?
In this webinar, Steve will help you answer these questions and walk you through a business plan tool that you can use to communicate your sense of direction.
February 16, 2021
Cash Is King When Committing To Annual Budgets
How does your business succeed? What are the ingredients for success besides king cash? Why is budgeting your cash sources and needs so important? How can you comfortably make commitments on behalf of your business that will be successful? What are the key components of an annual budget and how does it help achieve success for your business?
In this webinar, Steve will help you answer these questions and walk you through an annual budget tool that you can use to help make your business successful.
Steve Kluemper founded AgriStrategies LLC to assist agricultural producers, processors and suppliers across the U.S. with their financial management and vision by helping them facilitate discussions with lenders, vendors and investors, analyze decisions that need to be made, use independent perspectives to run their business, communicate their vision for their company's future and manage their business and especially their finances, all in an effort to improve their cash flow and profitability. He has 30 years of experience bringing financial solutions to all types and sizes of agricultural companies across the United States. Steve grew up on a farm in Indiana, graduated from Purdue University with degrees in Agricultural Economics and a Food and Agribusiness MBA and now lives in East Lansing, MI with his wife, Heather and 4 sons.
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Honeywell invents and manufactures technologies to address some of the world’s toughest challenges initiated by revolutionary macrotrends in science, technology and society. A Fortune 100 company, we create solutions to improve the quality of life of people around the globe: generating clean, healthy energy – and using it more efficiently. Increasing our safety and security.
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Family owned Valley Road Woodworks manufactures all
types of wagons and tricycles, even ones for adults! They are
heavy-duty and low maintenance, and will give your farm and
customers years of enjoyment. The wagons and trikes are
especially useful and popular at pick-your-own farms!
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.INDUSTRY HEADLINES
How food purchasing changed in 2020 — Did we get it right?
MSU Extension Agriculture
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt our lives. In May, we wrote this article with our predictions on how food purchasing would possibly change during the upcoming growing season. Now that the growing season is over, we've updated this article to see how accurate we were and look ahead as to how we think food purchasing habits in 2021 and beyond might continue to be affected.
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Anne Arundel, Maryland passes agritourism bill
Bay Weekly
Maryland's small farms have suffered with the rise of factory farms in recent decades. In an effort to keep their rich heritage alive, new and established farmers are tapping into the "agritourism" industry — attracting visitors to enjoy and learn about the land while creating income for struggling family farms.
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Pandemic may be boosting Christmas tree sales
WTOP-FM
The Christmas tree industry won't know how well live trees sold this year until the end of the holiday season when the counting is done, but there are signs that it could be a big year for live tree sales.
The National Christmas Tree Association reports its members have seen a significant increase in the number of tree shoppers who have come out earlier than usual to buy a tree.
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Tour owner: Popularity of Henderson County breweries grows despite COVID-19 pandemic
Blue Ridge Now
Not so long ago, Asheville was the funky beer Mecca of North Carolina. Not too far away, across the stateline, Greenville, South Carolina, was the up-and-coming beer hotspot for South Carolina.
Both were brewing and selling all sorts of trendy craft beers, IPAs and even some fruity ciders. Both were hip, and both were tourist destinations for brewskies.
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You can hunt for sweet treats on a chocolate safari in Virginia
Travel + Leisure
Destinations have long catered to the sweet tooth of chocolate lovers, with the Neuhaus Chocolate Factory in Brussels offering all-you-can-taste samples, Lindt opening the world's biggest chocolate museum in Zurich, Club Med's La Rosière in France creating a chocolate orange-themed room for the holidays, and a Willy Wonka-like factory being built outside of Amsterdam.
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There will be no butter sculpture at this year's Pa. Farm Show because of coronavirus
The Philadelphia Inquirer
While the 2021 Pennsylvania Farm Show will be virtual, it will skip one of its most beloved features due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Department of Agriculture announced Tuesday that the annual butter sculpture, a highlight of the show, scheduled for Jan. 9 to Jan. 16, has been canceled as cases and hospitalizations continue to surge across the commonwealth.
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How California's cheese trail avoided a meltdown
National Geographic
I'm listening to Nikki Gruss as she recounts the history of Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese, located in a patchwork of green high above Tomales Bay, in Northern California's Point Reyes National Seashore.
The farm's lead hospitality coordinator, Gruss describes how the rye grass, seasoned by the marine air and Pacific coastal fog, influences the cheeses' flavors before introducing me to "the girls" — the farm's herd of Holstein cows.
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Ontario, Canada, producers invite visitors for virtual tours
Farms.com
An industry organization has included new family farms to its virtual tour library.
Farm & Food Care Ontario's FarmFood360° website added three new operations for anyone to visit virtually.
The additions mean there are now 18 Ontario farm and food processing tours available on the site.
One of the new tours takes place on an 1,100-head beef feedlot farm in Kawartha Lakes.
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Alpaca ranch thrives during pandemic with yoga and more
Spectrum News
When you walk into Good Karma Ranch, you may be greeted by Brooke, or one of her friends. But to the owners, these aren't just tourist attractions, they're what's kept the family business alive.
The pens at the ranch are full of different personalities, but Shelly Walsh and her husband, Mike, know them all by name. The business has been open for about three years for people to come and tour and to visit the alpacas.
But like everyone else in 2020, they had to shut down the farm for a few months because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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