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

 

Explore Enterprises: Agriculture and Natural Resources

Explore the tabbed pages below and find enterprise-specific resources.

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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. Meats: Farm to Table Marketing new!
  8. Mushrooms
  9. Organic
  10. Specialty Vegetables
  11. Trees and Small Fruit
  12. Urban Agriculture
  13. Value-Added Marketing
  14. 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/

 

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

Value Added Vaue-Added Dairy Options - The National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT)
https://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/summaries/summary.php?pub=199
Added: August 8, 20111

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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

Introduction to Pasture-Raised Poultry: Getting Started, AN232, University of Florida IFAS Extension
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pdffiles/AN/AN23200.pdf

Virtual Field Day - Pastured Poultry, UF/IFAS Extention
http://vfd.ifas.ufl.edu/pastured_poultry/index.shtml

 

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

 

Sheep Purdue University Sheep Extension
http://www.ansc.purdue.edu/SH/

 

Suppliers

 

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

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