
Western Region Agricultural
Stress Assistance Program (WRASAP)
Regenerative Agricultural Alliance
The mission of the RAA is to scale up regenerative poultry in the movement to provide a farmer driven model that showcases regenerative agriculture as the transformational shift needed to balance our ecosystems at large. We approach regenerative agriculture through ecosystem management. Just as the regenerative poultry system works with the entire ecosystem of the land to produce abundant food, scaling regenerative poultry takes an ecosystem of businesses to produce regenerative outcomes. That is why collective ecosystem management forms the backbone of what we do.
Service areas: National
Go to Website | Phone: (507) 664-1088
Core Services: Organic/Sustainable/Regenerative Transition & Support, Research, Technical Assistance, & Education
General Services: Financial & Business Planning
Mad Agriculture
Our work begins with farm planning. We dream big about what the land wants to be and how to implement regenerative principles and practices. Putting ideals into action is hard to do. We use a combination of community support, capital and markets to activate regenerative agriculture on the land. Our work learns from and contributes to an emerging and diverse community of funders, practitioners and purchasers. We focus on the Midwest and High Plains of the United States. Exceptions can and will be made.
Service areas: Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wisconsin, Wyoming
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Core Services: Funding Opportunities for Farmers, Organic/Sustainable/Regenerative Transition & Support, Research, Technical Assistance, & Education
General Services: Direct Marketing Assistance, Financial & Business Planning, Institutional & Wholesale Markets
Headwaters Farm Incubator Program
Headwaters Farm Incubator Program is designed to assist in the development of new farmers. The program involves leasing out sections of East Multnomah SWCD’s Headwaters Farm to motivated, experienced individuals who will use it as a launching pad for their own farming endeavors.
Service areas: Oregon
Go to Website | Phone: (503) 935-5355
Core Services: Farm Land Access & Succession Planning, Resources for Beginning Farmers
General Services: Direct Marketing Assistance, Financial & Business Planning, Research, Technical Assistance, & Education
Feed the Hunger Fund
Feed The Hunger Fund works side-by-side with our borrowers, primarily women, immigrants, and people of color, to build a more equitable food system. As a certified Community Development Finance Institution (CDFI), we provide critical loans in Hawaii and California to help farmers and food entrepreneurs to start and grow businesses.
Service areas: California, Hawaii
Go to Website | Phone: 1 (415) 432-8202
Core Services: Funding Opportunities for Farmers
General Services: Financial & Business Planning, Resources for BIPOC Farmers, Resources for Farmworkers / Migrant Workers, Resources for Women Farmers
Farm Credit
We serve every part of agriculture from the smallest operations to the largest and everything in between. Whether helping a young farm family begin, supporting our veterans as they return home and take up farming or financing U.S. agricultural exports around the globe, Farm Credit is committed to the success of American agriculture. Our loans and related financial services support farmers and ranchers, farmer-owned cooperatives and other agribusinesses, rural homebuyers and companies exporting U.S. ag products around the world.
Service areas: National
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Core Services: Funding Opportunities for Farmers
General Services: Disaster Relief/Resilience, Financial & Business Planning, Resources for Veteran Farmers
Extension Risk Management Education
Extension Risk Management Education is delivered through four regional centers that provide grant funding and leadership within their regions. Each regional center is linked on our web site. Projects are producer-focused, outcomes-based and encourage public-private partnerships. Funded projects must identify targeted outcomes that will help producers manage risk and then describe how the project will measure those outcomes.
Service areas:
Go to Website | Phone: (612) 625-1964
Core Services: Disaster Relief/Resilience
General Services: Financial & Business Planning
Chimacum Center
The Chimacum Center works in partnership and collaboration with land and farming partners and with grassroots and organizational allies around the Jefferson County region to nurture creative, collaborative and restorative rural projects in the arts, community-building, healing, housing, food justice and land access.
Service areas: Washington
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Core Services: Farm Land Access & Succession Planning, Funding Opportunities for Farmers
General Services: Conservation Programs, Financial & Business Planning, Research, Technical Assistance, & Education, Resources for Beginning Farmers, Resources for BIPOC Farmers
Black Oregon Land Trust
We support beginning BIPOC farmers in building foundational skills and accessing supportive trainings, as well as bridging existing Black farmers with resources for funding to support their land stewardship. We are in the beginning stages of developing a network of Black farmers across Oregon to bridge farmers with financial education skills, potential investors and resources, and community mentorship and infrastructure support.
Service areas: Oregon
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Core Services: Activism & Organizing, Farm Land Access & Succession Planning, Resources for BIPOC Farmers
General Services: Financial & Business Planning, Funding Opportunities for Farmers, Institutional & Wholesale Markets, Organic/Sustainable/Regenerative Transition & Support, Research, Technical Assistance, & Education
AgriSolar Clearinghouse
The AgriSolar Clearinghouse is an information-sharing, relationship-building, public communications hub for all things agrisolar. The AgriSolar community: Connects farmers, developers, researchers, and the public Provides practical technical assistance Develops best practices and innovative solutions to barriers Evaluates financing options Promotes sustainable agrisolar opportunities
Service areas: National
Go to Website | Phone: 866-723-8677
Core Services: Conservation Programs, Research, Technical Assistance, & Education
General Services: Financial & Business Planning
Agri-cultura Network
As a cooperative with five South Valley member farms and many allied farms statewide, our wholesale business program aggregates, processes, delivers, collects customer payment, and distributes farm payment. In addition, we support development of farm capacity while providing nutrition education and food access through a CSA and community events.
Service areas: New Mexico
Go to Website | Phone: (505) 217-2461
Core Services: Institutional & Wholesale Markets, Research, Technical Assistance, & Education, Resources for Beginning Farmers
General Services: Financial & Business Planning
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The Western Region Agricultural Stress Assistance Program is supported by the USDA Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network, under agreement number: 2020-70028-32731 proposal number: 2020-07631
The Western Region Agricultural Stress Assistance Program is an equal access/equal opportunity program.