Resources

The Bottom Line: To be successful in business you need enough customers to buy your product over a sustained period of time at a profitable price…

This resource is a downloadable Excel Workbook to use as a recordkeeping system. Developed by UMaine Extension, this tool will enable you to keep…

This document summarizes the Course Expectations for the 2022 New Farmer School

Extension’s online map includes farm locations and contact information, farm-preferred methods for relaying product, marketing updates to the public…

Preserving rural character is a top priority for virtually every small New Hampshire town. Larger communities put a similarly high priority on…

Recorded on April 15, 2020.   This webinar focuses on how some New Hampshire and Vermont farms who sell through direct market channels…

This is a compilation of online resources shared during the Farmers Market webinar held on Monday, May 18, 2020. Additional resources have been added…

This Excel workbook is designed to assist farmers, and owners of similar businesses, with  forecasting the sales of up to five products. A product…

For growers, it’s a place to sell their products, be part of the community, meet new customers and build a strong, loyal relationship with them.…

Website contains information on how to effectively recruit, hire, train and retain workers is a critical farm management skill. It includes tips,…

An LLC form of business ownership can be used as a tool to transfer a farm to another generation. It can also offer many protections that a sole…

This Excel workbook is a tool for farmers that generates a cash flow budget, beginning and ending balance sheets, and a farm income statement.  It…

Risk management recognizes a new, expansive vision for agriculture: A vision taking into account the interdependency of business, family and…

We highlighted the key findings from a 2016 consumer survey of Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire residents that investigated the consumer perspective…