Consultation Services

A Farmer Courses, LLC consultant is highly trained and capable.

We have worked with greenhouse, dairy, cow-calf, sheep, hog, cotton, corn, soybean, catfish, and turkey producers. We can help you decide whether to undertake a new venture, modernize, change technology, plan transitions, dissolve a business, or estimate the amount of damages you are owed. We specialize in the following consultations:

• Expert Witness Reports. Analysis of producer lost income due to discriminatory practices, production losses, and loan denial.
• Focus on Financial Statements. Analyzing past performance and projecting balance sheets, cash flows budgets, and planned vs actual cash flows.
• Planning. Fixing production and/or finance problems and developing Mobilize Plans to promote farm/ranch success and survival.
• Finance Training. Statements, record keeping, and problem solving training at a central site or place of business.

Representative U.S. Economic Consultations

• Shifting from cow-calf to beef finishing.
• Modernization of farrow-finish hog production.
• Improving financial management with dairy production.
• Improving dairy cash flow management.
• Modernization of dairy facilities.

International Economic Consultation

Dr. Hanson is fluent in Spanish

• Shift from extensive grazing to free stall barns on corporate farm. (Argentina)
• Agribusiness curriculum development for a university. (Mexico)
• Modernization of small holder dairy production. (Mexico)
• Moderniation of small holder coffee production. (Costa Rica)

Lost Income Expert Witness Reports, Depositions, Testimony

Our reports and depositions are known for their depth and clarity. Backed by thorough enterprise and industry research, we prepare reports and testimony to determine financial losses if and when damage is established by the court. Our solid analytic approach allows us to reach sound conclusions for events that happened recently, or many years ago.

Estimation of lost income:

• Wheat and cattle production (North Dakota, East Kansas, West Kansas)
• Cotton, wheat, and cattle production (North Texas, South Texas)
• Potato production (Idaho)
• Poultry and catfish production (Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina)

Please call or email us to discuss your financial issue/need and how we can help.

Dr. Greg Hanson, President
Farmer Courses
1 (814) 933-9890