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Beginning Farmer and Rancher Resources

This page provides resources related to agricultural business management and marketing for beginning farmers and ranchers:

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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

Ag Marketing

    • 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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Financing

    • 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

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Grant Sources

    • Western SARE – Farmer/Rancher Grant
    • Western SARE – Producer + Professional Grant
    • CSU Specialty Crops Program
    • NRCS EQIP – Organic Initiative
    • NRCS EQIP – Seasonal High Tunnel Initiative
    • Grants.gov

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Insurance

  • Farm Service Agency
    • Farmers’ Union Insurance
    • Colorado Farm Bureau Insurance

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Labor

  • CSU Extension: Ag Labor Factsheets
    • Ag Help Wanted: Guidelines for Managing Ag Labor
    • Positive Practices in Farm Labor Management
    • Labor Management in Ag
    • Colorado Department of Labor

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Leasing

    • Access to Land : Lease Considerations

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Market Price Reports

    • Commodity Market Reports Scroll down for hay
    • AMS Market Reports Includes wholesale prices for organic
    • Price Reports for Colorado Farmers’ Markets

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Recordkeeping

  • Quickbooks: Can be a great tool for tracking farm expenses and incomes and generating financial reports

 

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Regulations and Food Safety

  • 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)

 

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Taxes

  • Rural Tax Education
  • IRS Schedule F (Form 1040)

 

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Business Planning:

  • 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

 

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