| Cultivating Agribusiness: Discovering Global Opportunities in Pacific Northwest Specialty Production Contributor(s): Chilton, Mike (Author), Griffin, Bob (Author) |
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ISBN: 1945785101 ISBN-13: 9781945785108 Publisher: Nunm Press OUR PRICE: $14.41 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2016 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Industries - Agribusiness - Business & Economics | Motivational - Science | Life Sciences - Botany |
| Physical Information: 0.37" H x 6" W x 9" (0.53 lbs) 158 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Cultivating Agribusiness is Mike Chilton's personal story of engaging an agribusiness career in specialty agriculture products--an area in which he includes seeds, plant-sourced oils, and plant material products. In twelve years Mike built a $1.6 million agribusiness. His success in the Pacific Northwest, along with his desire to share and help others engage successful opportunities in agriculture, makes this book a valuable resource for farmers, extension agents, future farmers, agriculture and ecology educators, and agribusiness entrepreneurs. This is more than a 'how-I-did-it book'. It is an invitation to a wonderful life in agribusiness. All agriculture involves the business of using plants. Learn about the ongoing global need for quality horticultural seeds. Risks and rewards are detailed. Many specifics for Pacific Northwest agriculture are included. Learn quality assurance requirements and procedures for successfully fulfilling contracts with both growers and buyers. Sample agreements are provided. Lower business risks by thinking 'contracts first' and then production. Understand production and marketing principles useable in a near limitless number of specialty products derived from the earth but contributing to a "lighter footprint" economics and a stronger quality of life. |
Contributor Bio(s): Griffin, Bob: - Bob Griffin began his career in international development with USAID in Laos in 1966. There his first job was as regional manager for southern Laos of a new joint venture of USAID and the Royal Lao Government called the Agricultural Development Organization. ADO was set up to provide agricultural inputs including tools, machinery, fertilizer and pesticides as well as credit and marketing services to Lao farmers. This work led to an attempt to develop a commercial rice plantation in Laos, a venture that was ultimately unsuccessful. Subsequently, he worked for a UNDP regional project that served UN country projects in regard to management, training and communications issues. After three years, he became an independent consultant working of various types of international development projects but specializing in agricultural and rural development. He continued as an independent consultant contracted by various development agencies for the next thirty-five years, retiring in 2013. Bob studied political science at Oberlin College and completed a master's degree in education at the University of Southern California and an MBA in international business at the City University of New York. He lives with his wife, Normalah, in Honolulu and enjoys spending time with his three adult daughters and three grandchildren.Chilton, Mike: - As a young man with a graduate degree in botanical sciences from Iowa State University, Mike Chilton spent fifteen years in Southeast Asia, initially as an agricultural volunteer and team leader in Vietnam and then as a remote area security development specialist with the Thai Border Patrol. He returned to Vietnam to work in private and public sector development activities before returning to the USA in 1975 to an uncertain future. Finding his footing as an agribusiness entrepreneur, he formed his own company, Agricultural Alternatives, Ltd., in 1985 focusing on specialty plant and seed production. His products expanded into a broad range of plant products, all marketed internationally, before he sold the company in 2001. He is passionate about the opportunities available today in agriculture and writes with encouragement and a mentor's voice. Mike has visited and traveled in over eighty countries and has lived, worked or conducted business in nineteen countries. He lives with his wife, Simone, on an acreage near Salem, Oregon, and continues today to serve useful purposes following a number of ancillary interests. He continues to encourage young people to engage agribusiness and its many opportunities. |
