One day or less

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Other

Workshops

Daytime

Crops

Marketing (includes value added)

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English

613-784-9426
Visit the program Web site
Janet Krayden, Project Coordinator

Between one week and 2 months

P.E.I. Farm Technician Apprenticeship Program is a Blue Seal Trade that provides farm employees a great opportunity to gain important skills and trade experience to use in the industry. The program tuition is 100 per cent subsidized if EI eligible. Program starts every January. 

Free

Apprenticeship

Classroom

Daytime

January 2015

Cattle
Crops
Field Fruit and Vegetables
General
Greenhouse, Nursery, Landscape and Floriculture
Other & Non-Traditional
Other Animal
Poultry and Egg
Swine
Tree Fruit and Vine

Animal Production
Crop Production
Equipment / Machine Operation and Maintenance

English

902-892-1091
Laurie Loane , Executive Director

One day or less

 

Based on very positive reviews from last year we are again offering this one day workshop, November 14th 2014 and again on January 14, 2015 We feel that this is an opportunity to fill an educational gap that often exists in the many details of forming, operating and dissolving a corporation.  It will dispel many myths, as well as create awareness of pitfalls to avoid. The subject material is presented in a simple manner that will add to the knowledge of corporate newbies, wannabes or seasoned shareholders

· Points to consider in making the decision to incorporate

· What is involved in setting up a corporation

· How assets are transferred to a corporation and how preferred shares and

       shareholder loans are received as payment

· Understanding best practices of operating a corporation and keeping records for a

       corporation

· Basics of corporate income tax, specifically understanding the Small Business                 Deduction, active and inactive income, Refundable Dividend Tax on Hand, 

     GeneralRate Income Pool, Capital Dividend Account

· Removing funds from a corporation; wages, dividends or shareholder loans

· Tax treatment of using corporate assets for personal use and visa versa

· The corporation as beneficiary of life insurance

· Corporate funded medical plans

· Using a corporation to effectively grow and operate your farm

· Using a corporation to accomplish intergenerational transfer of the farm

· Using a corporation to exit the farm

· Purifying a corporation so that the rollover rules and capital gains deduction are

       preserved

· Winding up a corporation

 

 

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$500.00 per individual or $750.00 per couple

Farm Managers

Certificate

Each participant will receive a certificate indicating they have completed the course

Workshops

The workshop will take place in a group setting with materials provided for following along and referencing.  There will be some hands on work and discussion of individual scenario's using the information that has been learned

Daytime
Year-round

We have prescheduled 2 workshops to take place in Fillmore SK this year November 14, 2014 and January 14, 2015.  We will consider taking this program to other locations at other times if requested.

General

Business Planning, Strategy and Structure
Financial Management (includes production economics)
Succession Planning

English

(306) 722-3884
Visit the program Web site
Kelvin Shultz, Accountant

One day or less
Less than one week

Basic and Advanced bookkeeping and or AgExpert Farm Management Software training

Training in the home on AgExpert Program beginning with basic set up of the file and running through various transactions. Leading into more complicated transactions involving inventory and general journal transactions per clients needs. 

70 per hour

Farmers, business owners

Certificate

On-site/On-farm

Daytime
Evening
Weekends

Please phone for avaliability. 

Cattle
Crops
Other & Non-Traditional

Business Planning, Strategy and Structure
Financial Management (includes production economics)

Training clients to use bookkeeping in the AgExpert Farm Management to run their business more effectively. 

English

3064292869 or 3067368001
Danielle Mytopher

One day or less

 

Watch for upcoming dates scheduled in 2015

9:00 am to 3:30pm

 

Location: TBA (to be announced)

Venue: TBA 

 

Advancing Your Farm Financial Management is designed to help elevate basic knowledge in financial management to an intermediate level.  This is not an expert course.

 

Particpipants will experience lecture/instructional components as well as activites and exercises intended to increase knowledge and comfort with financial analysis on their own farm.

1. How Can You Manage It If You Don't Measure It?

 

We will go over the importance of managing data, and go through a brief analysis of the participant's own farm financial situation.  Particpants will learn the impact that the most common financial metrics have on their business.

 

 

2. Why Financial Management is Critical to Defining and Achieving Your Goals, and How Your Future will be Shaped by Today’s Financial Management Decisions.

 

Here, we will look at your financial and business goals, conduct a SWOT analysis, recognize the "gap" between where we are and where we want to be, and consider options on how to proceed.

 

 

3. Risky Business: How to Identify & Mitigate the Risks That Can Derail Your Plans.

 

Particpants will identify the risks they face, initate a plan to manage those risks, and create an action item list to follow through on when back at their farm.

 

 

4. The Action Plan

 

The Action Plan brings all the components of the learning together.  The Action Plan will clearly outline goals, identify risks, and specify mitigating activities.  This will form the foundation of a personalized plan that is applicable in the real world which particpants can use week by week and month by month in their own operation.

 

 

TBD

Program cost TBD

GST is applicable to the program price.

 

Fee covers tuition and presentation materials.

Lunch is included.

Advancing Your Farm Financial Management is a course designed to elevate the knowledge of particpants from "basic" to "intermediate."    This is not an expert course, so those will a high level of financial management knowledge and experience will not find benefit from attending.

By the same token, those who need entry level instruction on financial management will be overwhelmed by this curriculum.

Certificate

At the completion of this program, participants will receive a Certificate of Completion from the course facilitator.

Classroom
Workshops

Instruction is a fairly even mix of lecture and exercises.

Participants will need to do some pre-course work in advance in order to receive full beneift from attending.

Daytime

General

Business Planning, Strategy and Structure
Financial Management (includes production economics)

The agenda provides a fairly even mix of instruction/lecture and hands on exercises.  The exercises require particpants to use their own business financial information.  

 

NO PERSONAL FINANCIAL INFORMATION WILL BE SHARED INSIDE OR OUTSIDE OF THIS CLASS.

 

Participants will be required to do some course pre-work in advance of the course date.

English

306-533-5474
Kim Gerencser