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Maryland's Alternative Enterprise Hotlist

This hotlist provides resources on Maryland's most popular alternative enterprises:

  1. Agritourism
  2. Alternative Livestock
  3. Aquaculture
  4. Forests and Natural Resources
  5. Grapes
  6. Horse Boarding
  7. Mushrooms
  8. Organic
  9. Specialty Vegetables
  10. Trees and Small Fruit
  11. Urban Agriculture
  12. Value-Added Marketing
  13. Value-Added Products

Additional Alternative Enterprise Resources:

University of Maryland Extension - General Resources

Enterprise-Specific Resources

Crops | Dairy | Livestock

 

Crops

Topic Resource
Corn Processing

Decision Making Tools and Budget Worksheets for Corn - Grain and Silage provided by Penn State
http://farmbusiness.psu.edu/MgmtTools.cfm (see various resources at this page)

 

General

Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture
http://www.pasafarming.org/index.htm

 

Marketing

Marketing Links for Greenhouse and Crop Growers provided by Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
http://aesop.rutgers.edu/~farmmgmt/marketing/marketing.html

 

Vegetables -
Budgets

University of Maryland Extension: 2008 Maryland Vegetable Enterprise Budgets

 

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Dairy

Topic Resource
Beginning Questions You Should Answer Before Starting a New Dairy Processing Enterprise provided by Cornell University
http://www.cpdmp.cornell.edu/CPDMP/Pages/Publications/
Pubs/dairypq.pdf


Equipment

Robotic Milkers: How Much Can I Afford to Pay? provided by Penn State
http://farmbusiness.psu.edu/MgmtTools.cfm (see "RobotValue.xls")

 

General

smalldairy.com
Site assists in finding information about on-farm and artisan processing. Site serves homesteads and suburban kitchen cheesemarkets.
www.smalldairy.com

The Small Dairy Resource Book: Information sources for
farmstead producers and processors. Provided by Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program of USDA
http://www.sare.org/publications/dairyresource/dairyresource.pdf

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Livestock

Topic Resource
Budgets

Livestock Enterprise Budgets provided by University of Kentucky, College of Agriculture; Department of Agricultural Economics
http://www.uky.edu/Ag/AgEcon/pubs/software/budgets_
livestock.html

 

Composting

Farm-Scale Composting Resource List provided by ATTRA
attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/farmcompost.html

 

Economics and Law - Small Ruminant

Maryland Small Ruminant Page: Economics and Law
www.sheepandgoat.com/economic.html

 

Marketing

Marketing & Promotional Tools for Pasture Raised Beef - What Works?
Ginger S. Myers, Regional Marketing Specialist
University of Maryland Extension
301-432-2767 ext. 338 
gmyers@umd.edu
Format: Adobe Web Conference
Added: 11/20/09

 

Extension Bulletin 374 (EB 374): A Marketing Decision Tool and Guide for Grass-Fed Beef
http://www.mredc.umd.edu/Documents/EB-374.pdf

 

Manure Handling
Economics

Manure Handling Economics Tool provided by The Pennsylvania State University
http://farmbusiness.psu.edu/MgmtTools.cfm

 

   
Poultry
Management

Pasture Poultry Enterprise provided by Kansas Rural Center - Sustainable Agriculture Management Guide
http://ceplacer.ucdavis.edu/files/46833.pdf

 

Production Management

American Grassfed Association
http://www.americangrassfed.org/

 

Sheep

Purdue University Sheep Extension
http://ag.ansc.purdue.edu/sheep/sheeplinks.html

 

Suppliers

 

University of Maryland Extension's Ag Marketing Website
Maryland Niche Meat and Poultry Directory (pdf)

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