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. 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:

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

• Alternative Enterprises provided by the Maryland Ag Marketing Website
  http://www.agmarketing.umd.edu/AlternativeEnterprises.html

• 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/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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