Webinar on Managing Your Farm Business

Beginning Farmers

Webinar on Managing Your Farm Business - WEBINAR: Managing Your Farm Business in an Economic Downturn Date: Tuesday, March 31; Time: 11 AM EST; Cost to attend: Free Register now to hear Purdue University, Professor Michael D. Boehlje in this one time webinar “Managing your farm business in an economic downturn” as he addresses issues that matter to you, including: The current business climate Key [...] http://ow.ly/2Wu0xu

Webinar on Managing Your Farm Business

Register now to hear Purdue University, Professor Michael D. Boehlje in this one time webinar Managing your farm business in an economic downturn

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Are you’re thinking about starting a farm?

Beginning Farmers

Are you’re thinking about starting a farm? This guide is here to help you take initial steps.

Starting A New Farm: Planning Guides & Resources for Success

What you need to know when starting a new farm: a free guide for planning the first steps, finding expert help, and tips to learning the the basics for success

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10 Ways to Bring Extra Income to Your Farm

Beginning Farmers

10 Ways to Bring Extra Income to Your Farm - Farming can be an expensive endeavor, whether you do it for a hobby or as a means of survival. There will be times when money gets tight and it seems like the expenses will never stop mounting. In times such as this, having a little extra income would be helpful, but how can you turn [...] http://ow.ly/2Wn8N8

10 Ways to Bring Extra Income to Your Farm

Farming can be an expensive endeavor, whether you do it for a hobby or as a means of survival. There will be times when money gets tight and it...

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New USDA website for beginning farmers.

new USDA website for beginning farmers.
http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/newfarmers…

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Capital Press: USDA wants to redefine farming, limit subsidies

USDA wants to redefine farming, limit subsidies

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By MARY CLARE JALONICK
Associated Press

Published: March 25, 2015 8:22AM

Sean Ellis/Capital Press Dry beans are harvested in a field near Wilder, Idaho, in this file photo. The USDA has announced that it is redefining farming for the purposes of determining who will receive some subsidy payments.

USDA proposes that farms must document that their managers put in 500 hours of substantial management work annually or 25 percent of the time necessary for the success of the farming operation to qualify.  

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Profile of an Urban Homesteader​

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Toward a more self-reliant community-focused lifestyle

OSU Extension Catalog has Gardeners Covered

From Lincoln County Dispatch
http://lincolncountydispatch.com/index.php/food/item/4460-osu-extension-catalog-has-gardeners-covered

By Kym Pokorny
You planted your seeds, hung lights to simulate the sun, watered regularly, even put down heating pads to warm the germinating plants. Then they disappear overnight. Talk about disappointing.

What happened, and how do you stop it from happening again? Turn to Oregon State University Extension Service’s newly designed online catalog where you’ll find almost 200 garden-related guides, including Propagating Plants From Seed. The catalog also features approximately 700 additional publications on topics such as food preservation and safety, heating your home, aging, health, emergency preparedness and living sustainably. Some are in Spanish.
https://catalog.extension.oregonstate.edu/

“The intuitive, mobile-friendly catalog website helps make OSU Extension’s research-based information available in the way the public expects: anytime, anywhere on the device of their choice,” said Jennifer Alexander, the interim director of OSU’s Extension and Experiment Station Communications department, which manages the catalog.
The catalog homepage features recent releases and the most popular items for the week according to hits received. To find the peer-reviewed publications, you can search or browse by topic. The page for each publication shows a description, authors and links to related resources.
Most catalog publications are free to view or download. Some are available in multiple formats.
For example, Backyard Chicken Coop Design, which is part of the Living on the Land series, is available as a downloadable PDF, eBook and audio files. All of the podcasts are free on iTunesU.

Some publications and field guides, such as the popular Shrubs to Know in Pacific Northwest Forests and Trees to Know in Oregon, are available to purchase. Simply click the “add to cart” button and enter your billing information.
The following are the most downloaded garden publications.
How to Reduce Bee Poisoning from Pesticides
Growing Blueberries in Your Home Garden
Growing Tree Fruits and Nuts in the Home Orchard
Training and Pruning Your Home Orchard

Growing Your Own

Growing Table Grapes
Managing Diseases and Insects in Home Orchards

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Recent Oregon laws to ease regulations on poultry farmers

Recent Oregon laws to ease regulations on poultry farmers slaughtering fewer than 1,000 chickens per year, along with laws like the Farm-Direct Bill, exempt sellers of certain agricultural products directly to consumers from state laws regulating produce dealers and restaurants.
In the Oregon Senate Committee on Environment and Natural Resources is Senate Bill 320, which would allow a “food establishment located within residential dwelling to produce limited amounts of certain foods for sale to public without being regulated by State Department of Agriculture.”

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