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Building a Sustainable Business: A Guide to Developing a Business Plan for Farms and Rural Businesses
This is a good general introduction to business planning from Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (MISA). Includes strategic planning and evaluation and implementing and monitoring a business plan.

Whole Farm Planning: Combining Family, Profit and Environment
This somewhat superficial MISA guide contains good descriptions of software available for farm planning. Software links range in emphasis from managing land to managing farm finances.

Starting a Value-added Farm-Food Business
This site links to useful business planning documents from the University of Wisconsin, but many links to sites outside UW have not been maintained.

Starting a Value-Added Business
The Product Center for Agriculture and Natural Resources at Michigan State University provides links to a national network of agricultural and natural resource product innovation centers.

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