Beginning Farmer and Rancher Resources
This page provides resources related to agricultural business management and marketing for beginning farmers and ranchers:
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Beginning Farmer Organizations | Ag Marketing | Direct Marketing and Value Added Products | Financing | Grant Sources | Insurance | Labor | Leasing | Market Price Reports | Recordkeeping | Regulations and Food Safety | Taxes |Business Planning
Beginning Farmer Organizations
- Center for Rural Affairs – Beginning Farmer
- Iowa Beginning Farmer Center
- Farm Beginnings
- Northeast Beginning Farmers Project
- New England Small Farm Institute
- Farm Start
- Cultivating Success
- Tufts New Entry
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- CO Farm-to-Market
- CSU Extension: Ag Marketing Factsheets
- Colorado Department of Ag: Markets Divison/Colorado Proud
- Colorado Farm Fresh Directory
- Colorado Market Maker: List your ag product in this online searchable database
- LocalHarvest: List your CSA on this online searchable database
- Colorado Fam Shares and CSAs
- Certification and Labeling Considerations for Agricultural Producers (2005)
- Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture Tipsheets
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Direct Marketing and Value Added Products
- Colorado Farmers’ Market Association
- ATTRA: Marketing Factsheets
- Ag Marketing Resource Center
- Community Supported Agriculture
- USDA AMS Farmers Markets and Local Food Marketing
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- CSU Extension: Ag Finance Factsheets
- Farm Service Agency Loan Programs
- Colorado Agricultural Development Authority Beginning Farmer Program
See AgVantage Program for Young, Beginning, and Small Producers
- The Farmers’ Guide to Agricultural Credit
- CSU Extension: Ag Finance Factsheets
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- Access to Land : Lease Considerations
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- Commodity Market Reports Scroll down for hay
- AMS Market Reports Includes wholesale prices for organic
- Price Reports for Colorado Farmers’ Markets
- Quickbooks: Can be a great tool for tracking farm expenses and incomes and generating financial reports
- Colorado Farm to Market
- Colorado Farm to Table
- Colorado Environmental Pesticide Education Program
- Colorado Department of Health and the Environment
- CSU: Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs)
- CSU On Farm Food Safety Plan Template
- Colorado Department of Ag: Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs)
- Cornell: Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs)
- UC Davis: Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs)
- Michigan Extension: Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs)
- USDA AMS: Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs)
- WSARE “Building a Sustainable Business”
- Ag Plan: An Online Business Plan Tool
- Northeast Beginning Farmers Project Videos: Voices of Experience
- OEDIT: Colorado Business Resource Guide
- Market Farming Success: By Lynn Byczynski
- Organic Farmer’s Business Handbook: By Richard Wiswall