California Farmlink

The Long-term Goal of This Project Is to Provide Beginning Farmers With the Education, Tools and Resources They Need to Improve Profitability and Generate Net Worth. Our Program Will Offer an Integrated Business Education, Technical Assistance and Professional Referral Network to at Least 650 Beginning Farmers and Ranchers Tosupport Business Skills Development That Preserves Long-term Wealth as Shown on the Balance Sheet. This Means Coaching Farmers to Think Through Long-term Wealth Creation Through Asset Acquisition and Debt Reduction.farmlink Has Developed Educational Programming That Emphasizes the Business Skills Needed for Advanced Beginning Farmers to Apply a Long Term "balance Sheet Approach" to Farm Business Development, and Succesfully Access Credit and Land. Farmlink Conducted Both Group Training and Technical Assistance Programming That Successfully Served Beginning Farmers With Established Businesses Reliant on Specialty Niche Market Opportunities and Relatively Stable Relationships to Land. This Project Expands Upon This Program to Provide New Opportunities for Other Business Models Prevalent Across CALIFORNIA'S Diverse BFR Agricultural Sector, With Priority Consideration for the Growing Latino Farming Demographic.