Browse by Topic: Planning

When considering soil health practices for row crop farmers it's essentially to understand how each practice can alter the farm's bottom line. This decision making tool helps corn and soy producers simulate the financial impacts of adopting different soil health practices.

A fact sheet on the use of soil moisture sensors on farms. Includes grower experiences, sensor types, installation, and interpretation of the readings.

Soil temperature over a specified period of time anywhere in the US.

A SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) template for a farm's climate change resilience. Also includes tabs on assessing strategies, from financial to production to labor, and a resilience action plan template.

A collection of web tools for visualizing past and projected climate and hydrology in the US.

Diversifying into forest products is a good strategy to spread out climate related risk for any farm, but it's not without it's own challenges and strategies that need to be understood. This guide is a great starting point for any farm business considering farming the woods.

Dozens of tools for cereal crop producers to dial in production and planning, from profitability of post-plant nitrogen applications, to historical climate data, to irrigation investment calculators, and much more.

A newsletter that is weekly during the growing season with crop conditions, pest alerts, news, events, and detailed articles on everything from pest management to labor issues to post-harvest best practices.

A toolkit for urban farmers covering start-up costs, land access, access to capital, mentorship, infrastructure, production strategies, applying for grants, market development, and indoor growing systems.

IPM pest and disease modeling and forecasting. Includes pest-specific data and other factors such as growing-degree days.

Current and historical US topographic maps available as digital files or printed to order. You can also create maps.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map helps growers select perennial plants based on average minimum winter temperatures.

Veggie Compass helps diversified vegetable farmers analyze crop and market profitability using detailed farm data to support better decisions.

The CSF Water Deficit Calculator estimates soil water content in the root zone to inform decision making about current and forecasted water deficits.

Web Soil Survey provides online access to NRCS soil maps and data for farm planning, covering over 95% of U.S. counties.

Historical weather data, including wind direction and intensity.