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Launching the Next Generation of Farmers

Farm Beginnings is a farmer-led educational training and support program designed to help people who want to evaluate and plan their farm enterprise.

Participants engage in a mentorship experience and network with a variety of successful, innovative farmers; attend practical, high quality seminars, field days and conferences; and receive resource materials. They also create links with experienced farmers through farm partnerships, land and equipment use and/or rental.

Farm Beginnings Participants:

• Tap the knowledge of some of the most innovative and skilled farmers operating in the Midwest.
• Develop lifelong friendships and networks with other beginning farmers.
• Learn critical farm management skills such as creative financing and innovative marketing strategies.
• Mentor with a farmer engaged in a similar enterprise.
• See sustainable farming practices being used on real farms under a variety of conditions.
• Learn to view a farm as an interconnected system and learn how goals determine farming practices.
• Craft a tailor-made farming/business plan.
  

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