The Organic Transition Planner is designed to help you explore organic transition strategies and decide whether going organic makes sense for your farm or business. With it you can explore critical questions such as:
- What are your long-term business goals?
- What organic market opportunities are you in a position to exploit?
- How will you acquire the resources you need to make the transition?
- How will you anticipate and deal with challenges as they arise?
The Organic Transition Planner contains explanations of key concepts, real-life examples from transitioning farmers, and detailed worksheets covering farm operations, marketing, human resources, and finances. For ease of use, electronic spreadsheets, fillable PDF worksheets, and AgPlan, a business planning software program, are all available online with the Organic Transition Planner.
The Organic Transition Planner can be used as a companion to SARE’s popular business planning guide, Building a Sustainable Business: A Guide to Developing a Business Plan for Farms and Rural Businesses.