Interview with Seed Company Founder: Advice to New Farmers
A growing movement: Advice to new farmers from the founder and president of High Mowing Organic Seeds (Boston.com) By D.C. Denison EXCERPT: Many farmers collaborate by [...]
Beginning Farmers
2011 Michigan Organic Conference
The 2011 Michigan Organic Conference “Keeping the Local in Organic” will be held at the Kellogg Convention Center located on the Michigan State University campus [...]
2 Part Series: Sustainable Agriculture Education – Vision, Story
By John M. Gerber Part 1: Education for sustainable agriculture: A vision As the coordinator of the University of Massachusetts Sustainable Food and Farming undergraduate [...]
First Annual Beginning Farmers and Ranchers Conference
This conference is part of START2FARM, which is funded through a USDA Beginning Farming and Ranching Development Program grant. It will be held on February 6th and 7th in [...]
Tool to Assist Beginning Farmers & Ranchers in Finding Land
USDA Introduces an Online Tool to Assist Beginning and Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers WASHINGTON, Dec. 13, 2010 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack [...]
Great Article About Young Farmers: Debt and Payoffs
For young farmers, it’s a labor of Love: They face debt and uncertainty, but the payoff is independence and an agrarian lifestyle By Ann Belser, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [...]
Farm Family Business: Boost the Next Generation’s Success
Article By Kim Adrian (DTN Progressive Farmer) EXCERPT: In the world of family-owned businesses, there are lots of scary succession statistics. One that appears most often is [...]
Case Studies of Sustainable & Organic Beginning Farmers
Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture is producing a new series of case studies that provide a unique online resource to beginning farmers. Each case study is [...]
Article on Aging Farmers and the Need for New Entrants
Agriculture Gets Old: Will The West Run Out of Farmers? A nonprofit helps young farmers break into an increasingly tough business (From NewWest Food and Agriculture) By Tim [...]
Farms Next Internship Program – Rogue Farm Corps, S. Oregon
Rogue Farm Corps Farms Next Internship Program provides beginning farmers entry-level training in sustainable agriculture through an innovative cooperative education program [...]
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