Business Formation
The legal form under which your business is organized has significant consequences for personal liability. One should consider which type of business structure is most beneficial to their operation and goals.
Farmers’ Guide to Business Structures
Identifies the various ways your farm business can be formed or organized, offers insight regarding the relative advantages and drawbacks of each, and can help you take steps toward formalizing your desired business structure.
- Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education (SARE)
- Webpage
Cooperative Farming: Frameworks for Farming Together
Cooperative business models can help farmers reduce production costs, maintain a reliable source of inputs, and effectively market and process farm products. This guidebook outlines approaches to sharing resources, responsibilities, and services -plus case studies and practical strategies for making it work.
- Greenhorns.org
People Land and Activities: A Framework for Structuring a Farm or Ranch Business
This webinar will address the topic areas of business formation, land, labor, production and marketing, and business planning.
- National Farmers Union
- Video
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