The Minnesota Farm Business Management program is celebrating its 70th anniversary. AgCentric Executive Director Keith Olander says the numbers have changed dramatically over that time. “If you just go back to 1956 when the original state report came out, there were 152 farms enrolled and the average spending on the farm was just shy of $15,500. Fast forward to last year where we had over 2,154 farms and spending was $1.1 million on the average farm. Farm Business Management was mandated federally to assist the thousands who were coming back from the Korean War. “Minnesota, far and away, has the strongest program in the country today when it comes to farm management. I would say one of the keys that Minnesota hung onto was that financial analysis and that really has been the program’s anchor.” This milestone will be recognized during the Minnesota Association of Agricultural Educators Conference in July and with a special event September 11 in St. Cloud.
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