Best Practices for Managing Farm Financial Health and Wellbeing
This tool provides best management practices to manage and mitigate the whole-farm, and whole-family risks associated with finances, production, marketing, legal issues, and human interaction (Nickel, 2020).
Managing Farm Financial Stress for a Healthy Farm and a Healthy Farm Family
This tool provides farmer and farm families with methods to detect early signs of farmer stress and outlines ways to aid in managing farm finances.
Farmer Financial Health and Wellbeing Assessment: A Tool for Fostering Supportive Financial Conversations
This tool is to be used by farm service providers such as extension agents or farm finance professionals to assess farmer mental health and wellbeing. This is not a formal diagnostic tool, but rather is designed to provide farm service providers with talking points and communication strategies to open up conversation with farmers about their mental health and the levels of stress they are undergoing. The document also shares advice gleaned from practitioners about how to facilitate successful conversations on farm finance and farm stress, and advice about developing relationships built on trust
The Virginia Beginning Farmer & Rancher Coalition is a state-wide and coalition-based Extension program, housed in Virginia Tech’s Department of Agricultural, Leadership, and Community Education. Funding was sponsored by the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program (BFRDP) of the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Award #2023-49400-40885. For more information about the program, contact Katie Trozzo, Program Coordinator, at vabeginningfarmer@vt.edu or (540) 232-2233. For other questions, contact Kim Niewolny, Program Director, at niewolny@vt.edu.
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