Prepare for I-9 audits, survey of cabbage and onion producers for NYS enterprise budgets, TPS for Venezuelans extended until 2026, Need a SS card for your H2A worker? Register for Clean Sweep and clean out ag chemicals, subscribe to ENYCH program, Opportunity to get help with onboarding resources for your farm, Ulster County farmers have a grant opportunity and Upcoming Programs and Events.
Category: Business
Resources for the business side of managing a fruit and vegetable farm in Eastern NY. Topics include labor, marketing, farm business management, regulations, funding sources and risk management.
The Bottom Line #21
In this Issue: Trump Administration Tariffs, Federal funding updates: frozen funds, new funds and cancelled programs, Marketing tips for farmers markets and H2A Filing Fee Alert, Business Builder Awards program open- deadline April 7.
The Bottom Line #20
In This Issue: H2A, Marketing and Funding sessions at the ENYCH winter school – as well as other great programs. How to Prepare Your Yourself and Employees for ICE/CPB Encounter
The Bottom Line #19
In This Issue: NYS Grown and Certified Grant Q&A sessions today and tomorrow! Do you have a sexual harassment policy on your farm? Do you pay your farm labor biweekly? How to comply with NYS law. New NYS pre-natal health benefit for 2025. Apps to manage heat-related illness on your farm this season. Value Added Producer Grants are Open! USDA 1% loans for farm labor housing. Upcoming programs
The Bottom Line #18
In this Issue: Happy New Year! Update to Marketing Assistance for Specialty Crops
The Bottom Line #16
#16 December 10, 2024 Marketing Assistance for Specialty Crops Program, Tips for NYS Grown and Certified Grant, Podcast, Getting to Yes, Link to Grants and Funding, Upcoming Programs
Important! Marketing Assistance for Specialty Crops (MASC) program
USDA Farm Service Agency has just made $2 billion available to help specialty crop producers (fruit, vegetable, tree nuts, nursery crops, Christmas trees, floriculture, culinary and medicinal herbs and spices, honey, hops, maple sap, turfgrass and grass seed) expand markets and manage higher costs. Applications are only accepted from December 10, 2024, to January 8, 2025. Many NYS farms would seem to be eligible for these funds. This is not a grant; payments are based entirely on your sales history.
The Bottom Line #15
What to do if a certified letter from PERB comes to your farm? NAP coverage deadlines for perennial fruit and nuts, maple sap and honey. Farm Bill update – FB extension expired Sept 30, what’s next? USDA expanding market news for farmers markets and organic production. Paper on data interoperability in Agriculture. 2024 crop robotics landscape, who’s who in robots! Reminder about Beginning Farmer Grant and NYS Grown and Certified Grant. Upcoming Programs.
The Bottom Line #14
November 12, 2024: Jan 1 deadline to file a Beneficial Ownership Report, NYS Grown and Certified Grant Program Dates Announced, Crop Insurance Deadline for Perennial Fruit Crops looms, FSA Disaster Loans and Assistance available from Tropical Storm Debbie in August 2024, Resources for Farms facing Financial Hardship, NYS Beginning Farmer Grant, Upcoming Programs
Research: The Impact of Large-scale Solar Development on Farmland Values: Evidence from New York State
Large-scale solar energy projects compete for land with agriculture, potentially leading to undesired farmland loss and appreciation. The study authors looked at more than 12,000 parcel-level farmland transactions between (2007-2021) before and after 2015 when policies like the Shared Renewables Program (SRP) boosted the demand for land for large scale solar projects.
Recommended Resource: Using Farm Assets for Retirement
Using Farm Assets for Retirement This immensely helpful and well-written guidebook by Steve Richards, published by NY FarmNet, lays out concrete strategies for planning for retirement.
The Bottom Line #13
October 17, 2024. Three events in NYS to help farmworkers receive $600 federal payment, NYS Ag and Markets announces 2 new grant programs, the beginning farmer grant program and the socially and economically disadvantaged farmer grant program. CCE Orange County is hiring an Ag Program Manager, new ENYCH website with current list of ag funds, USDA Rural Energy for America Program (REAP). Upcoming Programs