Ranching for Profit Workshops
No cost, workshops for your agriculture business!
Strategic Planning in Uncertain Times
May 18-19, 2023
Climate change, pandemics, inflation, volatile markets, regulatory changes … to say the future is uncertain is an understatement. This uncertainty makes planning difficult. Difficult, but more important than ever! In this dynamic 2-day workshop participants will learn and apply scenario and strategic planning tools to make the unknown more known and develop plans and contingencies for their businesses.
Participants will use process to:
create a strategic vision
anticipate the consequences of disruptive events and/or pending decisions before the consequences occur and decisions are made.
determine the criteria to best judge the success or failure of alternatives and evaluate the likely success or failure of options before making decisions.
create actions plans and implementation timelines.
make contingency plans for alternative scenarios beyond your control.
This program is 25% instruction and 75% participants applying the planning processes to the unique challenges they face.
“Ranching for Profit Workshops bring bite size sections of the full school to local audiences.”
Dave Pratt |Ranch Management Consultants
Dave Pratt is one of the most sought-after speakers on sustainable agriculture and profitable ranching in the world today. He has taught the Ranching for Profit School in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia and Africa.
Dave grew up on a small ranch and worked for cattle and sheep ranchers in Northern California where he learned ranching from the bottom up. In addition to his practical roots, Dave holds BS and MS degrees from the University of California and Washington State University. A Range and Livestock Advisor with the University of California Cooperative Extension Service for 15 years, Dave researched cell grazing and strategic issues impacting the sustainability of ranches. In 1991 Dave began working with Stan Parsons, the founder of Ranch Management Consultants. He started teaching the Ranching for Profit School in 1992. When Stan retired in 2001, Dave and his wife Kathy, bought RMC. In 2019 after many successful years they sold the company to Dallas Mount.