Business & Marketing

Farmers, ranchers, and market gardeners wear many hats as you manage your operations, but one key factor for farm longevity is your role as a business manager, protecting the financial sustainability that allows a farm business to keep feeding your community, season after season. We've gathered some of our favorite business and marketing resources below.

Business Resources  

TXFED.org a project of Texas Center for Local Food

TXFED is an online platform for peer training and technical assistance supporting economic sustainability for Texas local food systems. 

ATTRA Sustainable Agriculture

ATTRA hosts a collection of practical resources on whole-farm planning, financial management, and other farm-business topics. 

SARE (Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education)

SARE also has a collection of farm business management resources on topics like farm business planning, labor, and land access.

Fearless Farm Finances is a free 15-module series from Marbleseed with tips and tools for setting up a farm’s financial system.

Rio Grande Colonias Regional Food Business Center


The Rio Grande Colonias Regional Food Business Center has a recorded series of bilingual food business start-up webinars.

Veggie Compass is a free Excel tool that helps vegetable farmers understand their profitability by crop and market channel.

Small Producers Initiative - Texas State University

American Farmland Trust

USDA

Small Producers Initiative offers financial

training focused on profitability and

sustainability for small and family farms.

AFT's Prosperity Partners program matches producers with technical advisors who provide guidance on farm finances and other topics.

USDA also has a collection of helpful resources for those starting a farm business. 

Marketing Resources

Go Texan

Texas Department of Agriculture manages the Go Texas program to showcase products grown, made, or processed in Texas.

CCOF Small Organic Farmer Marketing Toolkit

This toolkit from CCOF provides marketing strategies, worksheets, and promotional materials tailored to small organic farmers.

Beyond Fresh - A Food Processing Guide for Texas Farmers

The Beyond Fresh workbook is a helpful decision-making guide for producers thinking about marketing value-added products.

Grants to Support Market Development

USDA Agricultural Marketing Service Local Food Promotion Program (LFPP)

USDA AMS Specialty Crop Block Grant Program

USDA AMS Farmers Market Promotion Program (FMPP)

Check out our Grants and Loans resource page for more information about available funding and resources to support your applications!

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