Event Details
Date
September 28, 2018
Time
10:00am - 2:30pm
Location
Highland Research Lab
3357 State Route 9W
Highland, NY 12528
Cost
This event is free.
Host
Eastern New York Commercial HorticultureGrow a Successful Agritourism Business! Assessing and Managing Your Financial Risk from Agritourism
September 28, 2018Bringing visitors to your farm can create new income streams but agritourism can also be a source of risk to your farm business. Five lunchtime seminars will teach how to assess and manage different risks to help develop a successful agritourism business. The seminars will be followed by a panel of successful agritourism operators. In-between each seminar, participants will build on their knowledge to develop their own risk management plan.
This 5-county program will be offered simultaneously in Delaware (the host county), and by Zoom technology in Otsego/Schoharie, Sullivan and Ulster Counties. The Ulster County site, hosted by Liz Higgins of the Eastern NY Commercial Hort Team, will be at the Hudson Valley Lab
The program is sponsored by the Northeast Extension Risk Management Education agency and Cornell Cooperative Extension of Delaware, Otsego/Schoharie, and Sullivan County and the Eastern NY Commercial Hort. Team.
For more information about the Ulster County site, contact Elizabeth Higgins emh56@cornell.edu. For information about the program, contact Mariane Kiraly, CCE Delaware County mk129@cornell.edu.
Date/Time Topic
- Friday 9/28 Introduction to Risk Management; Assessing and Managing Your Financial Risk from Agritourism
- Friday 10/5 Assessing and Managing Your Production/Weather Risk From Agritourism
- Friday 10/12 Assessing and Managing Your Legal Risk From Agritourism
- Friday 10/19 Assessing and Managing Your Marketing Risk From Agritourism
- Friday 10/26 Assessing and Managing Your Human Resource Risk From Agritourism
- Friday 11/2 Agritourism Farmer Panel
There is no fee to attend, feel free to bring your own lunch. Snacks and beverages will be provided. Please RSVP so that we can have ensure that we have adequate room and resources.
