GA Women In Agriculture
To save lives and eliminate poverty by increasing the availability of fresh, locally grown foods while expanding economic opportunities
Black farmers Network
Changing the narrative of the black farmer.
2022 USDA Census
2022 USDA Census for Agriculture. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service 2022 Census of Agriculture. Spanning more than 6 million data points about America’s farms and ranches.
American Farmland Trust
AFT's Farmland Information Center created a step by step guide for farmers and ranchers looking for land. From getting started to purchasing land, we provide information, checklists, worksheets, and contacts to support you along the way.
Acquiring Your Farm
This online tutorial includes seven modules, including one on farmland tenure, which describes how farmland is acquired and held, U.S. trends and land tenure principles.
Ag Lease 101
Learn about alternative land lease agreements and view templates.
Agricultural Land Tenure: A Curriculum for Beginning Farmers and Farm Seekers
Lessons and modules about farmland access and tenure, including "Farmland Tenure Basics, Financial Assessment, Owning Farmland, Finding Farmland, Leasing Farmland, and Community Partners."
Agricultural Lease Example
This lease example serves as a general illustrative overview and a starting point for farmers and farm owners as they develop individualized lease agreements. This example is provided for educational and general information purposes only.
Agricultural Leases: An Overview
Basic information about different types of leases.
Cooperative Farming
This guide introduces the concept of cooperative farming and the gives examples of the ways in which farming communities have found success in cooperative farming.
Cultivating the Next Generation: Resources and Policies to Help Beginning Farmers Succeed in Agriculture
Learn about access to capital, land, and infrastructure and assistance with agricultural production, business planning, and marketing.
Farm Access Methods
Land for Good created this guide to help farmers make informed decisions about how they access affordable land. This guide organizes farm access and tenure methods into three basic categories: “ownership now,” “ownership in the future” and “no ownership.”
Farm Answers -USDA
Farm Answers is the USDA-NIFA beginning farmer and rancher (BFRDP) clearinghouse, providing resources to help you get started farming, as well as tools to help more seasoned producers succeed.
Farm Leasing Tutorial
Modules designed to Introduce you to the benefits and challenges of leasing.
Farm Rental Assessment Checklist
Checklist for evaluating a site to lease.
Farmland Access in Urban Settings
This guidebook addresses the unique aspects of land access in urban settings, such as those associated with location, cost, security, infrastructure and regulations.
Farmland Access Tool Kit
Helping farmers and landowners affordably access, transfer and conserve farmland.
Farmland Assessment Checklist
Checklist for evaluating properties.
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.
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
Step-by-step strategy for coming to mutually acceptable agreements in all levels of negotiation.
Growing on Solid Ground: A Farmers Guide to Land Tenure
Covers land tenure options, agricultural leases, crop-share agreements and owning land.
Indian Land Tenure Foundation
National community-based organization focused on American Indian land recovery and management.
Plant Hardiness Zone Map
Interactive maps with information about plant hardiness zones nationwide.
Society of Rural Appraisers and Farm Managers
Directory of members of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers who can help you evaluate land and develop a management plan.
Federation of Southern Cooperatives
Organization in the Southeast that organizes cooperatives, works with Black farmers, and provides heirs' property assistance and development of cooperatives, housing, marketing, small businesses and credit unions as a collective strategy to create economic self-sufficiency.
Southern Sustainable Agriculture Research Education
Supporting the family farm, promoting conservation and strengthening communities through sustainable agriculture strategies.