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The Navigating your Ag Business: From Stress to Success course supports farm businesses to make decisions and take action to move their farms forward and, ultimately, reduce stress. The course follows a three-step process by answering three questions: 1) Where is the farm now? 2) Where do you want the farm to be, and 3) How do you get there? The course provides a mix of lectures, videos, homework assignments, de-stressing activities, and live-virtual group discussions. It provides participants with a framework to identify your current stressors, evaluate your financial position among three "camps", develop your vision and goals for your farm and your family, and develop an action plan to address your identified stressors to reach your goals. Activities include Money Habitudes, gathering information about the history of the farm and how it is currently operated, collecting financial information for analysis, conducting a SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities & Threats), exploring participants' visions for the farm, and developing next steps.

The course facilitators will include UW-Madison Division of Extension Outreach Specialists and Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade, & Consumer Protection's Farm Center staff. This course was made possible through the North Central Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Center: Engaging Programs to Support Producer Well-being (NCFRSAC) is based upon work supported by the USDA/NIFA under award number 2020-70028-32728.

Click on the course module, Getting Started in Canvas, to begin the course.