How We Support Beginning Farmers
We connect you with
the tools and help you need
The FBDC at Prairie Crossing provides the key business ingredient that is often not available to new businesses; access. Through our incubator system, we provide beginning farmers with access to:
• The use of farmland with stable tenure agreements
• The use of infrastructure such as packing sheds, green houses and coolers
• The use of equipment such as tractors, tillers, and hand-tools.
• Lead farmers and mentors who will provide knowledge and transfer skills
• Advice on start up capital needs
• Consumers, wholesalers and retailers who want to buy locally produced foods
• Advice on employment of skilled farm labor
• Introductions to landowners for future access to farmland
• Review and advice of business and cropping plans with business development staff and management