Dairy-Map Program To Expand With
UNIVERSITY PARK. (Centre
Co.) —A program to help boost the
profitability of Pennsylvania’s
dairy farms is expanding this year
with help from state agribusinesses.
Dairy-MAP was developed in
1993 by a multi-disciplinary team
in Penn State’s College of Agri
cultural Sciences. The program is
designed to help producers in
crease their competitive advantage
by providing up-to-date business
management information tailored
specifically for the dairy industry.
“Each year, hundreds of Penn
sylvania dairy farms go out of
business,” says Dr. Lisa Holden,
Dairy-MAP coordinator and assis
tant professor of dairy science.
“Dairy farming is a business, and
sharp business skills are just as
vital to the bottom line as getting
the chores done.”
That message isn’t wasted on
farm organizations, creditors, feed
and equipment dealers and other
groups concerned with the vitality
of the state’s dairy industry. Two
committees composed of repre
sentatives of farm businesses are
helping to inform people about the
purpose and scope of the program
and to solicit financial support.
“It is unlikely that milk prices
will rise, so there’s a real need for
a program like Dairy-MAP that
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selves,” says Brenda Shambaugh,
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MAP program, including the
Pennsylvania Farm Bureau, the
Pennsylvania State Grange, Penn
sylvania Farm Credit, the Pennsyl
vania Holstein Association and
others.
The next round of Dairy-MAP
workshops will begin in January
1995 and will be held at least
through March. The program’s
core workshop, Managing for
Success (MFS), applies general
business management techniques
to the dairy business.
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“We want to teach skills, not
give easy answers,” Holden says.
“Participants are expected to solve
problems, make plans and define
goals. They can begin to apply
these techniques to actual farm
problems immediately.”
Each Dairy-MAP workshop
involves six to eight hours of
learning, split over two sessions
held one week apart. Between ses
sions, participants do homework
to help them begin applying busi
ness concepts on the farm.
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Workshops that take a detailed
look at financial management also
will be offered in 1995. Partici
pants in this workshop will prepare
financial statements, analyse their
finances and create a business
plan. “A common thread among
failed small businesses is the lack
of a good plan,” Holden notes.
For a Dairy-MAP brochure and
more information about work
shops offered in your area in 1995,
contact your county’s Penn State
Cooperative Extension Office.
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