BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT FOR FARM BUSINESSES

Action Plan Review

Following the two-day Growing Your Farm Profits workshop, eligible farm businesses will meet one-to-one with the workshop leader to:

• Review your Action Plan(s)
• Confirm your eligibility to take part in the BDFB program by reviewing your enrollment form and the supporting documents you provide.  If you are eligible, the workshop leader will sign the enrollment form.  Be sure to get a copy of the signed enrollment form for your records.
• Discuss the cost-share opportunities available through the BDFB program to find out which ones would help you most.
  

How you can prepare for your Action Plan Review meeting:

The Action Plan Review meeting is most productive if you can email, fax or mail the following templates to your workshops leader in advance to the meeting.  The workshop leader will review and make suggestions where applicable.

Electronic fillable templates
See below for electronic templates

(PDF format: fillable with free Adobe Reader version 7 or later.  On a Mac? Please beware that some earlier versions of the free PDF Viewer that comes with Mac OS will not save your changes to the PDF file.)  Click here to download the latest Adobe Reader Version

Action Plan Template (771 kb)

My Key Goals (80 kb)

Identifying Priority Strengths and Weaknesses (32 kb)

Plan D'Action (167 kb)

Mes buts clés (80 kb)

Identification des forces et des faiblesses au chapître des priorités (32 kb)

Process

The Action Plan Review meeting will be approximately 1 hour in duration at a mutually convenient time.

Please bring the above templates and your GYFP binder to the meeting. Multiple members of the management team are welcome to attend.

After the meeting, the workshop leader will finalize your Action Plan summary, usually within about two weeks.  The workshop leader will send one copy of the summary to OSCIA Guelph and one to your farm business.  After that, your farm business may apply for the cost-share opportunities offered by the BDFB program.

The whole process -- from the GYFP workshop to OSCIA receiving the Action Plan summary -- usually takes about four weeks.  Your farm business may apply for any of the cost-share opportunities once your Action Plan has been reviewed but your cost-share application won't be considered until OSCIA Guelph receives the Action Plan summary.

Follow the links below for additional information:
Program Overview
GYFP Details & Upcoming Workshops
Cost-Share Opportunities
Resource Lists