http://www.microbizny.org.

Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise at Cornell University.

NY Farmlink: A service for business transfers, business partnerships, beginning farmers, & retiring farmers.

SmallBiz.cornell.edu will guide you to industry specific small business resources available to you at Cornell University.  SmallBiz.cornell.edu also provides links to on-line resources that offer general business information and advice.

Northeast Center for Food Entrepreneurship provides comprehensive assistance to beginning and established food entrepreneurs, thus promoting sustainable economic development of rural communities.

The New Rural Economy project (NRE) is a five-year research and  education program underway in rural Canada. It is a collaborative  undertaking bringing together rural people, researchers, policy-analysts,  the business community, and government.

The Small Business Development Center at Jefferson Community College.

New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets.

Empire State Development Corporation.

Growing New Farms.

Cornell Waste Management Institute

NY Farms Info: A great website for lots of information about
agriculture across New York State.



Online Tool Allows Comparisons of Conventional and Organic Farming The New Farm Web site now features an online economic modeling tool called FarmSelect that allows farmers to compare the economic returns of organic and conventional grain production. FarmSelect was designed by farmers, for farmers, and the program has been made as easy to use as possible. Farmers can enter their Zip Code, the crops they'd like to compare and the acreage. The program fills in the rest with historical data derived from the USDA and projections from research conducted by The Rodale Institute®. Then FarmSelect shows a line-by-line comparison of the two systems so farmers can see just how they would stack up on their farm, in their own climate. And the whole process takes less than a minute.
URL: http://www.newfarm.org/farmselect/   Source: ATTRA Weekly Harvest Newsletter 2/16/05)