Report: Building a Future With Farmers: Challenges Faced by Young, American Farmers and a National Strategy to Help Them Succeed

Surveyed 1,000 farmers from across the United States and found that access to capital, access to land and health insurance present the largest obstacles for beginners. Farmers rated farm apprenticeships, local partnerships and Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) as the most valuable programs to help beginners.
http://www.youngfarmers.org/newsroom/building-a-future-with-farmers-october-2011/

Incubator Farm - Prairie Crossing

Farm business development center incubator farm: http://www.prairiecrossingfarms.com/about.html

MOFGA Farmer to Farmer Conference

How conferences should be!  More networking and in-depth small group discussion time:
http://www.mofga.org/Default.aspx?tabid=293

Tuffs University: New Entry Sustainable Farming Project

Offers a full slate of farm training courses and services:
http://nesfp.nutrition.tufts.edu/training/index.html

MOFGA Presentation List

Variety of topics from land access to technical production, root cellaring basics.  Lots on hoop houses:
http://www.mofga.org/Default.aspx?tabid=224

Farm Mapping Software - On-line

http://www.farm-file.com/index.html

Based in Ireland.

COABC - Canadian Organic Webinars

From the Certified Organic Associations of BC (they're doing tonnes of great work)
http://www.certifiedorganic.bc.ca/education/seminars.php
And have plenty of resources.  Their Cyber-HELP listserve is amazing.

Farm land preservation - Incubating farmers - Rethinking suburban land use

Prairie Crossing does it all. List of resources offered on their site: http://www.prairiecrossingfarms.com/resources.html

Introducing the Wallace Center

http://wallacecenter.org/

The Wallace Center supports entrepreneurs and communities as they build a new, 21st century food system that is healthier for people, the environment, and the economy.

Our role is four-fold:

• We build links in the growing and diverse network of food and farm innovators with events and communications that bring participants together.

• We strengthen this network by gathering information from it and sharing participants’ learning through the network and with policy makers.

• We prime the pump of change by monitoring the emergence of useful models and helping others adopt or adapt them.

• We work to bring financial resources and other capacity-building support to good-food innovators.

Webinar:Clearing the Roadblocks: Market Based Strategies for Getting Good Food to All Communities

Another from the Wallace Center...
http://ngfn.org/resources/ngfn-cluster-calls/clearing-the-roadblocks-market-based-strategies-for-getting-good-food-to-all-communities/webinar

AgSquared - Planning monitoring it all on-line!

http://www.agsquared.com/en/product/features

AgSquared is developing a set of online software tools that combine farm planning and management with automated record keeping to track all the details of your farm's operation so you don't have to.

Webinar: Internet technology for small farms

http://ngfn.org/resources/ngfn-cluster-calls/farmer-and-the-dell

How can technology help get more healthy, fair, affordable, green food to consumers?

See five promising new technologies that help to get more Good Food into the food system. Each of these technologies represents a different method of bolstering regional food systems. The tools focus on the needs of many different actors in the food system: producers, aggregators, and even consumers.

Database of all Ontario products and services

Searchable by crop, activity, attraction and urban center:
http://www.harvestontario.com

The Source for Local

SPONSORS:

We are the largest and most comprehensive source for local including on-farm markets, pick-your-own, farmers' markets, farmgate honey producers, local meats, wineries, craft breweres, fairs and much more. And we are proud to be working directly with Ontario Farm Fresh and Farmers' Markets Ontario.

CFBMC Agri-webinar - Information Launch Meeting: Study of Farm Business Management Planning Behaviours in Ontario

www.agriwebinar.com

CFBMC Agri-webinar - Better Planning - Better Decisions

Better Planning - Better Decisions

November 7, 2011, 12:00 PM EDT
2011/2012 CFBMC Agriwebinar Series

John Molenhuis