SALISBURY – Wicomico County officials view the “Farming: Pencil to Plow” program as an aid in developing a job force.
For the past few years, University of Maryland Extension (UME) has been offering “Farming: Pencil to Plow,” a nationally recognized beginning farmer program by the National Association of County Agriculture Agents (NACAA). It is an eight-week entrepreneurial training course designed for aspiring farmers and those producers interested in diversifying their operation.
Course material includes learning components of a business plan, learning why, how, and where to do agricultural market research, becoming aware of government regulations facing small farmers and identifying compliance resources, understanding the importance of budgeting, discussing cash flow projections, and reviewing content and purpose of Income Statements and Balance Sheets.
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You have to be nuts to begin farming on the Eastern Shore -- the main target of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation -- and in Wicomico County there's also the Wicomico Environment Trust (and its leader, Michael Pretl) trying to shut down farming.
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