Veggie Compass - Amazing Cost of Production Tool for Diversified Vegetable Farms

Detailed - comprehensive - but manageable - not for everyone...
 www.veggiecompass.com
Covers markets, overhead and direct costs broken down by crop. Can handle multiple market channels.

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

Grass Run Farm - Local aggregation business for niche beef

www.grassrunfarm.com

We're farmers. We're a meat company. We are local foods.

At Grass Run Farm, we offer our region's best 100% grass-fed beef. We also market all-natural confinement-free "Fresh Air" pork. 
It's our responsibility to find sustainable markets for these products so that our local food system grows and flourishes, from the farmer to the consumer. We manage an inventory of both wholesale and retails cuts for food co-ops, restaurants, families, and institutions, alike.