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

• Alternative
• Traditional

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:

• Comprehensive list of alternative enterprises provided by Missouri Alternatives Center
  http://agebb.missouri.edu/mac/links/index.htm

• Agricultural Alternatives - Enterprise Budget Analysis: A publication by Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences; Cooperative Extension
  http://agalternatives.aers.psu.edu/Publications/enterprise_budget_analysis.pdf
  

University of Maryland Extension - General Resources

• Crops, Farm Animals & Nursery
  http://extension.umd.edu/local/index.cfm

• Lawn, Garden and Home
  http://extension.umd.edu/gardening/index.cfm

• Food, Nutrition and Health
  http://extension.umd.edu/nutrition/index.cfm

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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