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Navigating Food Safety Supply Chains

Navigating Food Safety Supply Chains

Download the PowerPoint Watch the Video Presentation Identify Production Output Levels and Market Requirements Identifying your potential scope or scale of production is an important first step: Scale: Level of production for one good Scope: Level of diversification,...

Credit Access and Financing Your Agriculture Operations

Credit Access and Financing Your Agriculture Operations

Download the PowerPoint Watch the Video Presentation Credit Basics Credit is a contractual agreement in which a borrower receives something of value now and agrees to repay the lender at some date in the future, generally with interest. Car loans, student loans, home...

Tribal Department of Agriculture Support for Scaling Value Added Operators

Tribal Department of Agriculture Support for Scaling Value Added Operators

Download the PDF What is a value added product? Products with a permanent change in their raw physical state, like turning berries into jam Are produced in a way that enhances the value of the raw product, like growing Certified Organic produce or foods carrying the...

Business Structure Decision Tree

Business Structure Decision Tree

Download the PDF Is the agricultural enterprise owned by a tribe or a tribal citizen(s)? Tribe  |  Tribal Citizen Tribe What does the tribe intend to structure this enterprise as? Part of tribal government Arm of Tribal Government Unincorporated instrumentality...

How Tribal Departments of Agriculture Benefit Beginning Farmers and Ranchers

How Tribal Departments of Agriculture Benefit Beginning Farmers and Ranchers

Download the PDF Disaster Planning Beginning farmers and ranchers can benefit from enhanced emergency management planning and implementation provided by tribal departments of agriculture connecting with local operations to establish a network of local food growers....