100 direct marketing farmers will receive 10 hours of training, plus meet monthly for 13 months with their farmer trainer to make sure their financial records are current and complete their end-of-year financial profitability analysis. The 100 farmers will each be paid $200 to complete the training; plus $650 to attend the monthly recordkeeping sessions.
Click here for complete details on the Direct Marketing Farmers Program.
Complete this Form to apply for the program.
The Farmer Trainers and Farmers will be supported during this 3-year project by the Core Team of:
- Heidi Eger, Radicle Heart Farm, Canton
- Erik Heimark, Maple Ridge Produce & Renewing the Countryside, Aitkin
- Delma Kaiga, DELK Financial LLC, Bloomington
- Ryan Pesch, Lida Farm & UMN Extension, Pelican Rapids
- Kathy Zeman, Simple Harvest Farm Organics & MFMA, Nerstrand
MFMA has teamed up with Minnesota Department of Agriculture’s Emerging Farmers Office, Minnesota Grown, and the University of Minnesota Extension Farm Business Management to offer this 3-year opportunity to direct marketing farmers to take a deep dive into farm finances and enterprise profitability analysis via an NRCS grant. We are appreciative of everyone's collaboration and support!
If you have questions, feel free to contact:
- Friendly Vang-Johnson at Friendly@mfma.org or (206) 276-2284
- Kathy Zeman at kzeman@mfma.org or (507) 664-9446
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