The FARM Assistance program seeks to provide the information necessary to help agricultural producers make more effective strategic financial decisions. As a result, participants can expect to receive the following benefits as part of their involvement in the program:

• Development of a strategic financial analysis and evaluation that is unique to the participant’s operation
• Estimation of financial profitability, financial feasibility, and anticipated yield and commodity price risk over a long-term (10 years) period
• Ability to compare multiple alternative scenarios to the current operation in an effort to identify the potential benefits/weaknesses of each
• Access to a professional financial analyst for the development and explanation of the FARM Assistance analysis
• Improved insight regarding the long-run prospects for the participant’s operation
• Access to the combined resources of the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute and the Agricultural and Food Policy Center