Browsing by Subject "specialty crop"

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    Micro Farm Insurance Case Study
    (2024-02-28) Pesch, Ryan; Zeman, Kathy
    This report summarizes the experience of 15 Minnesota farm operators who assessed how well the micro farm program fits their risk management needs on their operation. Micro Farm is a new whole-farm revenue insurance program from USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA).
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    Risk to Resiliency 2022 Pilot Cohort Evaluation
    Hoidal, Natalie; Olson, Nick; Livingston-Anderson, Annelie; Racer, Anna; hoida016@umn.edu; Hoidal, Natalie; University of Minnesota Extension
    This report includes an overview of the Risk to Resiliency pilot program in 2022, in which 12 vegetable farms participated in a 5-session workshop series with the goal of developing climate resilience plans for their farms. The series was facilitated by Laura Lengnick of Risk to Resiliency LLC, with local facilitation led by Nick Olson and Annelie Livingston-Anderson from Land Stewardship Project. Natalie Hoidal (UMN Extension) participated as a local technical advisor, and Anna Racer (LSP) assisted with evaluation. This evaluation is meant to inform future programming related to climate resilience for specialty crop producers.