Urban Agriculture

The Urban Agriculture program aims to educate producers who use indoor cultivation, or who focus on food and flower production on how to start and scale their businesses. These farm operations may be more likely to locate in or near urban areas to better access customers.

Resources featured on this page include:

  • Farm enterprise budgets to estimate the cost of production of elderberries, microgreens, high tunnel tomatoes, hydroponic leafy greens and more
  • Educational materials for individuals looking to start a farm focused on selling directly to consumers
  • Pricing data and tools to calculate break-even and marketing costs
  • Hands-on events and webinars to learn new farm production and business management skills
Vegetables at a market

View planning budgets for a variety of specialty crops

small agricultural business products

Learn how to capitalize on your small acreage and key considerations for marketing, assets and profitability

Agricultural goods

Seek free technical assistance from the Missouri Agriculture, Food and Forestry Innovation Center

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Intel for Ag

Intel for Ag features six online decision-support tools, which help producers understand the production, marketing and management skills and resources required to start and succeed with certain agricultural enterprises. Explore land suitability, local markets, management capacity, business start-up steps and curated resources for different enterprises.

Specialty Crops Insight Board

Use this dashboard to explore revenue assumptions for specialty crop products. Refer to the wholesale and retail prices reported by the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service to approximate a competitive price for your specialty crop products. When estimating the number of units your farm could produce, review the yield estimates to gauge production potential.

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AgSite Assessment Tool
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Generate a free report on your land. Assessments help agriculturalists explore new production alternatives, learn more about land before purchases, and support lending and real estate appraisal activities.

Resources

Market Channel Cost Assessment Tool (XLSX)

Anticipate the costs to sell products through different market channels and compare your estimated costs and revenue by channel to gauge the return on your marketing investment.

Recirculating Aquaculture System (RAS) Enterprise Budgets (XLSX)

Use this Excel workbook to develop a custom enterprise budget for a recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) operation.

Cut Flower Enterprise Budget (XLSX)

Use this budget to develop a customized cut flower (Lisianthus) enterprise budget. Assumptions can be changed based on your production situation.

High Tunnel Tomato Enterprise Budget (XLSX)

Customize this tool to produce a high tunnel tomato enterprise budget by changing assumptions to fit your farming situation. Use the shaded boxes to change inputs or prices.

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