
Western Region Agricultural
Stress Assistance Program (WRASAP)
The Farm Collaborative
We manage a farmer tool library with specialty farm equipment for rent including a potato harvester, walk behind tractor, All-Crop harvester, and more. We offer a housing library renting out tiny homes to be used for seasonal on-farm housing (must be approved by each county). Our farmer incubator program consults people that would like to try farming as a profession. After a year as an intern on the farm, incubators will learn about crop planning, business planning, and seed ordering and implement their own plot and business plan. Incubators will be able to use farm equipment and infrastructure and learn about land leases and land opportunities in the area.
Service areas: Colorado
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Core Services: Resources for Beginning Farmers
General Services: Activism & Organizing, Farm Land Access & Succession Planning, Financial & Business Planning
U.S. Farm Stay Association (dba Farm Stay USA)
Business planning toolkit and webinar instruction for setting up lodging on your farm. One-on-one advising from land acquisition to structures to insurance to marketing to reservation systems and more. Best practices answers to all questions with resources available. Referrals to similar businesses in their state.
Service areas: National
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Core Services: Direct Marketing Assistance, Resources for Beginning Farmers
General Services: Financial & Business Planning, Funding Opportunities for Farmers
The Kohala Center
The Kohala Center (TKC) is a non-profit organization based in Waimea on Hawaii Island. The Rural and Cooperative Business Development Services staff at TKC provides technical assistance in business development to farmers, ranchers, food enterprises, and rural cooperatives statewide. We specialize in cooperative development, financial capacity building, and new farmer education and training. TKC also offers microloans to eligible rural businesses located on Hawaii Island and Molokai.
Service areas: Hawaii
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Core Services: Funding Opportunities for Farmers, Resources for Beginning Farmers, Resources for Underserved Farmers
General Services: Financial & Business Planning, Legal Help & Mediation Services
Oahu Agriculture and Conservation
- Economic development support for Hawaii farmers
- Farmer and rancher education and training for Hawaii farmers
Service areas: Hawaii
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Core Services: Conservation Programs, Funding Opportunities for Farmers, Resources for Underserved Farmers
General Services: Direct Marketing Assistance, Disaster Relief/Resilience, Farm Land Access & Succession Planning, Financial & Business Planning, Organic/Sustainable/Regenerative Transition & Support, Resources for Beginning Farmers
California Agricultural Mediation Program
Our program provides FREE mediation to producers and service providers on covered topics, which are: debt/credit issues, succession planning, leases, neighbor disputes, organic certification, grazing on National Forest lands, USDA loan and program issues as well as any topic the Secretary of Agriculture deems appropriate. What is mediation? Mediation means a trained professional who is not involved personally in a situation helps the parties make a plan for whatever challenge is on the table. The process is confidential and while the professional can support the conversation, the results are always up to the parties.
Service areas: California
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Core Services: Legal Help & Mediation Services
General Services: Financial & Business Planning
Arizona Agriculture Mediation Institute
Mediation services for the Agricultural Community in Arizona.
Service areas: Arizona
Go to Website | Phone: 480.496.5926
Core Services: Legal Help & Mediation Services
General Services: Financial & Business Planning
Alaska Seeds of Change
Our hydroponic warehouse, growing primarily herbs and lettuce, serves as the main setting for our vocational training, mental health services, and basic needs support youth programs. We accept calls and questions about our program model, offer up to 1-hour of basic hydroponics consultation (we use Zip Grow vertical grow towers) over zoom, and can help connect Alaskans to mental health services provided by our parent organization Alaska Behavioral Health.
Service areas: Alaska
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Core Services: Farm Stress, Resources for Beginning Farmers, Substance Use Support
General Services: Direct Marketing Assistance, Financial & Business Planning, Resources for Tribal Farmers & Ranchers, Resources for Underserved Farmers
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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.