Production typically slows as we enter the winter season, leaving time for annual review and planning. Reviewing 2016 successes and struggles can help determine production for 2017. That’s much easier to do if you have been using a record keeping tool this year. Here are CFSA’s favorites and a free template. Also, reviewing documents such as the Southeast Organic Seed and Variety Report, Enterprise Budgets and Organic Inputs Finder can help you make your crop choices for the coming year.

If your 2017 goals include becoming certified organic, gaining a GAP certification, or maximizing your high tunnel production, consider applying to CFSA’s consulting services.

CFSA is also in planning and evaluation mode. Every few years our Farm Services Team conducts a survey to evaluate our program and identify ways in which we can improve it. This survey is for farmers; organic (certified and non-certified), transitioning, and sustainable farmers interested in using organic production practices. Your thoughts on what is most challenging regarding organic production and certification are extremely valuable to us. This information will serve as a basis for the continued development and refinement of training and resource materials targeted to meet your most pressing needs.

All the information collected in this survey is confidential. However, please be sure to provide your name and contact information so we can add you do the drawing for one of TWO $50 Visa Cards.

Take the CFSA Farm Services Survey

Cheers,

Karen McSwain, CFSA’s Director of Farm Services and Food Systems

P.S. We hope you found the Grower’s Toolbox useful this year! We have a lot of great stuff planned for 2017, but we can’t do it without your support. Please consider a year-end gift to support CFSA’s work. Give today.