This agriculture services business plan template has 29 pages and is a MS Word file type listed under our business plan kit documents.
Sample of our agriculture services business plan template:
1.0 Executive Summary 1 Chart: Highlights 2 1.1 Objectives 2 1.2 Mission 2 1.3 Keys to Success 2 2.0 Company Summary 3 2.1 Company Ownership 3 2.2 Start-up Summary 3 Table: Start-up 3 Chart: Start-up 4 3.0 Products and Services 4 4.0 Market Analysis Summary 4 4.1 Market Segmentation 5 Table: Market Analysis 5 4.2 Target Market Segment Strategy 6 4.3 Service Business Analysis 6 4.3.1 Competition and Buying Patterns 6 5.0 Web Plan Summary 6 5.1 Website Marketing Strategy 6 5.2 Development Requirements 7 6.0 Strategy and Implementation Summary 7 6.1 SWOT Analysis 8 6.1.1 Strengths 8 6.1.2 Weaknesses 8 6.1.3 Opportunities 8 6.1.4 Threats 9 6.2 Competitive Edge 9 6.3 Marketing Strategy 9 6.4 Sales Strategy 9 6.4.1 Sales Forecast 10 Table: Sales Forecast 10 Chart: Sales Monthly 10 Chart: Sales by Year 11 6.5 Milestones 11 Table: Milestones 11 Chart: Milestones 12 7.0 Management Summary 12 7.1 Personnel Plan 12 Table: Personnel 13 8.0 Financial Plan 13 8.1 Start-up Funding 13 Table: Start-up Funding 13 8.2 Important Assumptions 14 8.3 Break-even Analysis 14 Table: Break-even Analysis 14 Chart: Break-even Analysis 15 8.4 Projected Profit and Loss 15 Table: Profit and Loss 16 Chart: Profit Monthly 17 Chart: Profit Yearly 17 Chart: Gross Margin Monthly 18 Chart: Gross Margin Yearly 18 8.5 Projected Cash Flow 19 Table: Cash Flow 19 Chart: Cash 20 8.6 Projected Balance Sheet 20 Table: Balance Sheet 21 8.7 Business Ratios 21 Table: Ratios 21 Table: Sales Forecast 1 Table: Personnel 2 Table: Profit and Loss 3 Table: Cash Flow 4 Table: Balance Sheet 5 1.0 Executive Summary [YOUR COMPANY NAME] [YOUR NAME] [YOUR COMPLETE ADDRESS] Phone: [YOUR PHONE NUMBER] Email: [YOUR EMAIL@YOURCOMPANY.COM] Introduction [YOUR COMPANY NAME] develops and maintains Bees for the pollination of agricultural crops, the production of honey and pure beeswax. Location [YOUR COMPANY NAME] is located at [YOUR COMPLETE ADDRESS]. The Company [YOUR COMPANY NAME] is determining its formal company structure with 50% ownership held by [NAME]'s. Our Services [YOUR COMPANY NAME] sells bee pollination services for the fertilization of crops, organic FDA approved honey and pure beeswax. Financial Considerations The current financial plan for [YOUR COMPANY NAME] is to secure funding in the amount of $680,000. The funding will be used to purchase bees and produce bee hives, construct a honey kitchen, purchase land, equipment, a service truck and provide salaries for employees and working capital until the business maintains profitability. The major focus for funding is as follows: To fund a company that will breed, house and transport bees, facing extinction, which are critical for the pollination of agricultural crops. Chart: Highlights 1.1 Objectives The objectives of [YOUR COMPANY NAME] are: To become a premier provider of bee pollination service in [YOUR COUNTRY]. To help reestablish the bee population essential to the fertilization of fruits and vegetables and sustain its ability to feed itself. To market organic honey and beeswax. 1.2 Mission [YOUR COMPANY NAME] will develop into the most valuable provider of commercial colony bees for the pollination of agricultural crops and protection of the natural ecosystem in [YOUR COUNTRY] and globally by providing a robust bee population that provides optimal pollination services to a diverse range of horticultural crops. 1.3 Keys to Success The key to the success of [YOUR COMPANY NAME] as the premier provider of quality bee pollination services are: The current demand for the biggest insect migration in the country in order to pollinate the billion-pound California almond crop, which is among the State's most valuable agricultural product, which is only one of a vast number of crops in need of pollination. The unfortunate global edge of extinction of the most important pollinator, the bee population, essential to the fertilization of agricultural crops. Decades of beekeeping experience training and education. A commitment to the service of pollinating the nation's crops and reestablishing the Country's bee population. 2.0 Company Summary [YOUR COMPANY NAME] was established in 1949 as a hobby farm of bee keepers by [YOUR NAME]. Located in [YOUR CITY], [YOUR STATE/PROVINCE], [YOUR COMPANY NAME] provides commercial agricultural pollination by the most valuable pollinator, bees. [YOUR COMPANY NAME] is a commercial beekeeper that raises, rents and transports bee hives for the pollination of agricultural crops in [YOUR COUNTRY]. 2.1 Company Ownership [YOUR COMPANY NAME] is owned in equal parts by [NAME]'S and the company is currently examining the best alternatives for its legal establishment in order to provide [YOUR COUNTRY] with its quality pollination services. 2.2 Start-up Summary [YOUR COMPANY NAME] is requesting financing in the amount of $680,000, of this amount, $40,576 will be used to fund start up expenses incurred until financing is secured which is projected to be August of 2011. Table: Start-up Start-up Requirements Start-up Expenses Bee Boxes $35,000 Bee supplies $1,302 Honey supplies $1,582 Rent $1,764 Bee suits $340 Utilities $588 Total Start-up Expenses $40,576 Start-up Assets Cash Required $59,424 Other Current Assets $0 Long-term Assets $580,000 Total Assets $639,424 Total Requirements $680,000 Chart: Start-up 3.0 Products and Services The primary service ultimately provided by [YOUR COMPANY NAME] will be agricultural crop pollination once the company has increased an established bee population. The first step in development is to increase the company's bee population along with the associated hives and facilities required to maintain and service a healthy population. The by- products of honey and beeswax will also be marketed and associated profits will be reinvested in the acquisition and maintenance of the bees. Once a healthy population in attained, pollination services will commence and the bees will be transported as required and the continued development of the bee population will be an ongoing company priority. 4.0 Market Analysis Summary The non-native European honey bee (Apis mellifera) is the most important crop pollinator in the United States. However, because of disease and other factors the number of managed honey bee hives in [YOUR COUNTRY] has declined by 50 percent since 1950 (NRC, 2007). During this same period, the amount of crop acreage requiring bee pollination has continued to grow. This makes native pollinators even more important to the future of agriculture. According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, there are over 285,000,000 people living in the United States. Of that population, less than 1% claim farming as an occupation (and about 2% actually live on farms). There are only about 960,000 persons claiming farming as their principal occupation and a similar number of farmers claiming some other principal occupation. The number of farms in the U.S. stands at about two million. For the purposes of the U.S. Census, a farm is any establishment which produced and sold, or normally would have produced and sold, $1,000 or more of agricultural products during the year. (Government subsidies are included in sales.) By that definition, there are just over 2.1 million farms in the United States. According to the 1997 Census of Agriculture, the vast majority of farms in this country (90%) are owned and operated by individuals or families. The next largest category of ownership is partnerships (6%). The "Corporate" farms account for only 3% of U.S. farms and 90% of those are family owned. Many of the country's largest agricultural enterprises are family owned. Likewise, many farm families have formed modest-sized corporations to take advantage of legal and accounting benefits of that type of business enterprise
