Evaluating Supplemental Farm-Based Enterprises
Personal and Family Considerations
Where do you want to be?
Identifying Alternative Products
What are the possibilities?
Marketing Strategy and Initiative
Will it sell?
Production
Can it be done?
Profitability
Will it make money?
Financial Feasibility
Can you afford to do it?
Making a Decision
Will you start the new enterprise?
Selected Resources
Farming Alternatives: A guide to evaluating the feasibility of new farm-based enterprises (NRAES-32). From Small Farm Series, Cooperative Extension. NRAES, 607-255-7654 or nraes@cornell.edu. Cost is $11.50.
A Primer for Selecting New Enterprises for Your Farm, by Tim Woods and Steve Isaacs (Ag Econ Ext. 00-13). A publication designed to help producers evaluate new enterprises for their family farms. Online publication at www.uky.edu/Ag/AgEcon/extpubs.html.
Metro Farming: The guide to growing big profits from a small parcel of land, by Michael Olson, 1994, TS Books, P.O. Box 1244, Santa Cruz, CA 95061
AgVentures. A bi-monthly magazine for alternative agriculture ideas. One year subscription is $21. Contact 888-474-6397 or agventures@aol.com.
Small Farm Today. Magazine with 6 issues per year for $21. 800-633-2535.
