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Most help is for the 20%.
I focus on the other 80%, who need sales, and cannot effectively access the help that is "free."
One thing people worry about is funding, and I am happy to see there is zero interest (usury free) financing available aplenty:
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
According to the USDA:Well, if 80% of ag biz is small biz and produces 20% of our food, 20% produces 80%
- 10 percent of farms have gross sales of more than $250,000 and produce 80 percent of the country’s food
- 30 percent have gross sales between $10,000 and $249,000 and produce 18 percent of US food
- 60 percent have gross sales under $10,000 and produce less than 2 percent of food
Most help is for the 20%.
I focus on the other 80%, who need sales, and cannot effectively access the help that is "free."
One thing people worry about is funding, and I am happy to see there is zero interest (usury free) financing available aplenty:
And of course the real finance is intra-business, with no banks involved, that is vendor financing, at no interest.
- Barnraiser
is for food startups looking for donations to get their product off the ground
- Kiva Zip
is a free zero-interest loan platform great for early startups with low capital needs (up to $5,000)
- Community Sourced Capital
is a zero-interest loan platform perfect for a growing business with larger capital needs ($5,000-$50,000)
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
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http://www.salon.com/2016/01/01/what_nobody_told_me_about_small_farming_i_cant_make_a_living_2/
What nobody told me about small farming: I can’t make a living
People say we're "rich in other ways," but that doesn't fix the ugly fact that most farms are unsustainable
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