Minnesota Ag Connection - Farm Business Management Scholarships Available

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Farm Business Management Scholarships Available
Minnesota Ag Connection - 12/03/2021

The University of Minnesota, in collaboration with the Farm Business Management (FBM) program, is offering scholarships equal to 25% to 50% of FBM tuition as part of a four-year project: Organic Farm Financial Benchmarking in the Upper Midwest. Beginning in fall 2021, the scholarship program was expanded making all organic and organic transition farmers and ranchers eligible including specialty crop growers producing fruits, vegetables and value-added products.

The organic benchmarking scholarship can be combined with other cost-share programs such as those for cover crops (agcentric.org/cover-crop-scholarship/) and organic certification (www.mda.state.mn.us/organic-certification-cost-share-program).

Organic data submitted through the organic benchmarking cost-share program is included in the Center for Farm Financial Management's online FINBIN database and, once aggregated, used to inform regional financial benchmarking reports and to build Extension programming. A report from the first year of the organic benchmarking project, Upper Midwest Organic Farm Business Management 2020 Annual Report, is available online through the University of Minnesota.

Find the benchmarking report along with scholarship applications at agcentric.org/farm-business-management/organic-farming-resources/

Contact Joleen Hadrich (jhadrich@umn.edu) or Gigi DiGiacomo (gigid@umn.edu) with any questions.

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