In the thesis we analyse the situation on the farm, where, family members, in addition to their regular jobs, are angaged also in the breeding of suckler cows and forestry. Recently, they received additional tillage areas, which improved their business. The older son of the owner is finishing his studies and will be soon looking for a job. Therefore, the key challenge of the thesis is to find a business plan that enables a full – time job on the farm. Using scenario analysis, we testet different alternatives. Our assumptions that an increase in tilage area and herd size is not enough for full emplovet, have proved correct. If they would switch their production to dairy cow and start a milk processing activity it would be enoug for full – timee job. However, under certain rather optimistic conditions. The estimated income would be comparable to the minimum wage. On the other hand by increasing the existing suckler cow breeding to full capacity of the barn, and launching a meat cutting activity by providing cutting services for the surrounding farmers, it would generate an income that would also be sufficient for full employment on the farm. Of course, in both cases, the key challenge is to gain a sufficiently large market and thus demand for their products.
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