The NY Beginning Farmer Project and Cornell Small Farms Program have completed the annual revision of the popular "Guide to Farming in NY: What Every Agricultural Entrepreneur Needs to Know." If you work in farming in any capacity, this guide will prove a useful resource.
"This is an excellent compilation of information and would have saved me lots of time and frustration if I'd had it all available from one source a couple years ago." Pierre Dionne, Sojourner Farm.
The Guide consists of 33 fact sheets covering finding land, food processing regulations, farm vehicle safety, financing, farm taxes, and everything in between. As always, the Guide is available for free download, as a complete document or by individual fact sheet, from the Cornell Small Farms website: www.smallfarms.cornell.edu/pages/resources/businessmanage/guide.cfm
In 2008 it was deemed an "Outstanding New Extension Publication" by the NY State Association of County Agriculture Agents.