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Collapse ▲“COB helps Executive Farm Management Program go virtual” from the ECU College of Business.
Brent Leggett (pictured) and his wife, Sue, own Leggett Farming, a 3,000 acre operation in Nashville, North Carolina. They have used what they learned to refine their business practices, especially in terms of human resources.
Cape Fear – Farm & Country Magazine, Summer 2020
Cape Fear Farm Credit Invests in Educational Opportunities
#Farmerstrong – An Idea Worth Seeding
Michelle Grainger, managing director of the Executive Farm Management Program, gave a Tedx talk in Cary, NC on December 13, 2019. Her talk explained the challenges of modern farming while highlighting the correlation between American farmers and US national security.
Economist sees more uncertainty, urges farmers to manage
Blake Brown recently returned to NC State after an assignment as a Senior Economist for the Council of Economic Advisers in the Executive Office of the President.
Farm Management Program Helps Family Farms Grow Their Operations
At Scott Farms, Scott moved several employees into new roles that played to their strengths and used new metrics to make management decisions, explaining, “As a farmer, our first thought is how to grow better crops and be more efficient, but the program taught us to think outside the box and start to look at our whole operation differently.”
Michelle Speaks at TEDxCaryWomen
Poole College of Management’s Michelle Grainger, director for the Center for Innovation Management Studies (CIMS), will be speaking on Friday, Dec. 13, at the TEDxCaryWomen event. Grainger is one of 16 speakers featured at the event, and she will be speaking about the Executive Farm Management program, which focuses on teaching family owned farms across the Southeast the most progressive business management tools available to ensure their operations remain profitable.
Tobacco News: Executive Farm Management program article
Matt Vann, an Extension specialist with North Carolina State University, says the EFM program reaches out to farmers here in North Carolina, “and it does something that I felt like we have really missed in Cooperative Extension for a number of years now. We focused really hard on the fundamentals of growing a crop, growing tobacco, peanuts, etc., but what [the EFM] program does is really take that to the next level with a lot of the business side of running a farm.”
“The Best Decision I’ve Made in Long Time”
Through the Executive Farm Management Program, farmers and managers with large family farms in the Southeast gain skills and connections needed to sustain operations in the face of financial challenges.
This article includes testimonials from 2019 alumni Beth Taylor and Kim Kornegay LeQuire.
Innovation Management: Cultivating the Modern Farmer, in the Center for Innovation Management Studies (CIMS) January 2019
CIMS is delivering executive education curricula as an integral component of the Executive Farm Management Program. The Center is facilitating innovation for Southeast growers who can use these skills to feed a hungry world.
- Now available to ALL Growers/Packers/Processors in the Southeastern Region of the US
- Curriculum will include all of the above topics as well as further customized for Tobacco and All Produce Growers/Packers/Processors
- Educational Team has expanded to include Clemson Cooperative Extension & University of Georgia Extension
- Delivered in a more concentrated period of time (January 2019 – February 2019), with shorter in-session consecutive days of learning
Executive Farm Management Program Expanding in 2019
October 4, 2018
The Executive Farm Management Program has gone regional, with some of the Southeast’s leading management experts joining the NC State and East Carolina University team that launched the program last year. Mike Davis reports.
North Carolina Executive Farm Management Program Expanding
September 11, 2018
Grainger explained that agriculture in the Southeast is both unique and diverse, with many crops requiring a great deal of labor. Instructors tailor the program to factor in this diversity. This year, the program has not only expanded its crop focus, it has also added academic partners and is actively recruiting participants across the Southeast.
Brown Appointed to WH Council of Economic Advisors
August 17, 2018
Dr. A. Blake Brown, Executive Director of EFM, joined the Council of Economic Advisors at the White House on August 1st. Replacing, Michael Adjemian, Brown will serve as a senior economist focusing on agricultural policy. The Council is a part of the Executive Office of the President.
Michelle Grainger is serving as Managing Director in his absence.
New Program Addresses the Business of Farming
January 25, 2018
The science, technology and business of farming in the 21st century are changing rapidly, and to compete on a global scale, farmers need to know not just how to grow a good crop but how to effectively lead complex, management-intensive operations.
ECU College of Business Instructor Sharon Justice (center) and Eastern North Carolina farmer Steven Archie Griffin (right) look at the tobacco seedlings grown on Pattie Mills’ (left) farm.
EFM Director Blake Brown published an analysis of the use of the business model canvas in agribusiness management programs. Read “Application of the Business Model Canvas in Farm Management Education.”Application of the Business Model Canvas in Farm Management Education.” He presented this research at the International Farm Management Association Congress and Tour in Edinburgh, Scotland in June 2017.
ECU Collaboration Supports Sustainability for N.C. Farms
March 29, 2017
Instructors from ECU’s College of Business joined event organizer NC State University in developing and delivering content to help large family-owned farmers strengthen their business management skills, meet the demands of the global market and gain a competitive advantage.