GA FarmLink Farm Business Education
The GA FarmLink Farm Business Education Program aims to enable Georgia farmers to strengthen the foundations of their farm businesses and increase their receipt of federal funding to ensure long-term resilience and sustainable profits.
GA Department of Education
Students whose lives are impacted by agricultural education will achieve academic and personal growth, strengthen American agriculture, and provide leadership to build healthy local communities, a strong nation and a sustainable world.
Team Agriculture Georgia
Team Agriculture Georgia (TAG) is a coalition of USDA agencies, state departments, and community organizations working together to provide educational resources to enhance the resilience of the state’s beginning, small, and underserved farmers.
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College
The School of Agriculture and Natural Resources leads the South in advancing the agriculture field through hands-on experience and rigorous academic preparation. We offer seven baccalaureate programs with small class sizes, high-quality instructors, and many opportunities for hands-on learning.
UGA: College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
CAES is among the best and most established U.S. colleges of agriculture. In its classrooms, its Agricultural Experiment Stations and its statewide network of UGA Cooperative Extension offices, the faculty and staff of CAES are dedicated to discovering, teaching and delivering the science required for healthy living to flourish in Georgia.
Fort Valley State University
FVSU’s College of Agriculture, Family Sciences and Technology is Georgia’s top producer of African-American students who earn bachelor’s degrees in agriculture, agriculture operations and related sciences. Four academic departments call the College of Agriculture, Family Sciences and Technology home.
Georgia FFA
The Georgia FFA Association was founded in 1929. It is the 3rd largest state association in the nation with more than 81,000 FFA members in 394 local chapters. The FFA operates on local, state and national levels. Student members belong to chapters organized at the local school level.
2022 Census of Agriculture
Comprehensive summary of agricultural activity nationwide.
Field Journal For Beginning Farmers
The resources, practices and strategies outlined in this Field Journal is for anyone involved with the food system – which is anyone who eats food! It’s focus is to encourage youth of many ages to consider farming as a career, in particular youth in middle and high school.
Finding Farmland Calculator
Use this calculator to build scenarios for purchasing farmland. You can compare detailed estimates of total costs, monthly payments and affordability metrics, then download the results to have on hand when meeting with a loan officer.
Finding Farmland Course
Lessons on finances related to acquiring your farm.
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
Step-by-step strategy for coming to mutually acceptable agreements in all levels of negotiation.
Greenhorns
Greenhorns’ mission is to create a welcoming cultural space and a practical professional resource for the incoming generation.
Growing Local: A Community Guide to Planning for Agriculture and Food Systems
This guide provides a history of food system planning, principles, and practices, and a comprehensive toolbox of programs and policies.
Growing on Solid Ground: A Farmers Guide to Land Tenure
Covers land tenure options, agricultural leases, crop-share agreements and owning land.
Plant Hardiness Zone Map
Interactive maps with information about plant hardiness zones nationwide.
Publication 225, Farmer's Tax Guide
Publication describing how federal tax laws apply to farming.
Refugee Farmer Teaching Handbook
Handbook for staff providing training and technical assistance in immigrant and refugee farmer-training programs.
Six Guidelines for "Getting to Yes"
Six skills to aide you in the negotiation process.
USDA Urban Agriculture Toolkit
The toolkit lays out the common operational elements that most urban farmers must consider as they start up or grow their operations. It also contains a special section on resources for developing indoor growing operations, such as aquaponic facilities.
AgPlan Business Plan Development
AgPlan is powerful website developed to help rural businesses develop a business plan. AgPlan is free of charge for anyone to use individually or in educational programs.
Cooperative Extension System
Educational network with local offices of experts ready to provide practical and research-based information to agricultural producers and small business owners.
Southern Sustainable Agriculture Research Education
Supporting the family farm, promoting conservation and strengthening communities through sustainable agriculture strategies.
Williams Farm Incubator Program
A program that provides access to land, training and resources to beginning farmers belonging to groups subject to racial, ethnic and gender prejudice.