The Profitable Market Farm: Tips For Avoiding Potential Pitfalls

This ebook was written with the purpose of helping future and beginning farmers to ask the right questions in regard to their new market farm. Depending on where you live and the crops you cultivate, your answers may be different from someone else. Starting a farming business can be an overwhelming feat, but The Profitable Market Farm: Tips For Avoiding Potential Pitfalls will help guide you as you develop your own checklist for success.

Here are some of the topics related to your farming business that will be discussed:

• Business Structure
• Market Area
• The Land
• Finances
• Marketing
• Personnel
• Equipment & Infrastructure
• Soil Health
• Fertilization
• Crop Selection
• Irrigation
• Pest Management
• Harvest
  

This text will help you answer questions from growing efficiency to selling your product. Many of the solutions discussed are those that the author, Micah Kuenzle, had to learn through trial and error. Reading this guide will put you a step ahead, and will help you to avoid some potential pitfalls!

Micah Kuenzle is a market farmer who specializes in growing tomatoes and other summer staples. He currently resides in Missouri and has a passion for educating his local community on the importance of local agriculture and locally sourced food. He hopes to help others enter into a career in local small-scale farming all while using his own successes and failures as a guide.