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GFL46: 3 Tips for Starting a Farm, Knowing What I Know Now with Darby Simpson
Category: Religion & Spirituality
Duration: 00:57:14
Publish Date: 2017-02-20 05:00:00
Description:

Today we're talking about farm start-up, or maybe more appropriately starting the farm over.

In this episode we are going to go back to the beginning with Darby, back to when he first started farming in 2007.

He's going to run through what starting over might look like knowing what he knows today. It's taking 10 years of farming experience and wisdom and applying that to a startup operation.

Darby started out with 150 chickens in 2007, and despite things working out there’s a lot that he would have done differently if he had to do it over again.

Today we are going to take a look what he would have done differently and why. We'll look at how these changes might have been possible and how they compared and contrasted with the actually reality that took place in the beginning.

When it comes down to the changes there's three main areas that Darby would have handled differently – getting more startup capital, utilize USDA and NCRS financial services, and enterprise selection.

Even though he started with chickens, in hindsight his farming business, his life, and his marriage might have been better off if he had started with pigs.

If you are thinking about starting up a farm, transitioning over your farm, or making a big shift in your farm business, there's a lot of good advice and tips in this one.

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