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Now available: a free online course for ag professionals wanting to help clients make better business planning and marketing decisions. *Strategic Farm/Ranch Planning and Marketing* - produced by SARE - is a self-directed course focused on keeping ag operations sustainable and profitable.

The course covers how clients can:

   * critically assess their future
   * set goals
   * find resources to evaluate new ideas
   * develop business and marketing plans
   * think critically and manage risk
   * prepare to meet with lenders and seek financing alternatives
   * transfer farms and understand retirement options

Preview the course at http://www.sare.org/coreinfo/ceprogram.htm

*Strategic Farm/Ranch Planning and Marketing* adds a second course to SARE's National Continuing Education Program. The first course, Sustainable Agriculture: Basic Principles and Concept Overview is also available. Both courses are offered through eXtension's online campus at http://campus.extension.org

Distributed by SARE Outreach for the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program and based upon work supported by the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES), USDA. SARE's mission is to advance - to the whole of American agriculture - innovations that improve profitability, stewardship and quality of life by investing in groundbreaking research and education. SARE Outreach operates under cooperative agreements with the University of Maryland and the University of Vermont to develop and disseminate information about sustainable agriculture. Visit www.sare.org for more information.