How do you decide whether or not to invest in hail netting, new apple varieties, new planting systems, robotics, more labor, or new equipment? Should you be planning to scale back or exit some of your current systems?

In this class we will try to help you use tools that can help you make these decisions. 

You will learn to:

• Use your financial statements and farm financial information to evaluate your farm's performance. This can help you identify your farm's areas of strength and weakness which can help to guide and prioritize investment decisions.
• Develop an enterprise budget in order to evaluate the performance of specific enterprises on the farm.
• Use your enterprise budgets to evaluate potential investments or changes in your system using cost benefit analysis tools.