Training Farm Program Details

What You Can Expect From New Entry on the Training Farm
What New Entry Will Expect From You on the Training Farm
Training Farm Fees
Extra Fees

This information can also be found in the New Entry Farmer Manual. All guidelines below are PDF documents.

What You Can Expect From New Entry on the Training Farm

Before the season:

We help you one-on-one with

planning your crops and markets
ordering seeds and seedlings
getting permits and insurance

Training and on-farm assistance:

We offer hands-on training so that you can learn to

plant crops
use a hoophouse
set up irrigation systems
controlling weeds and pests, and diseases safely
use farm equipment

We also offer workshops and tours of markets and other farms.

Markets: We help you find places to sell your crops and get the best prices for them. You can also join the World Peas Cooperative to sell your crops.

Keeping records: We help you keep track of: what you plant, pest problems, what you harvest and sell, and your income and expenses.

Managing your farm business plans: We review your business plan regularly and help you make changes as needed.

Loans and credit:We can help you request a small loan through Accion or other lending programs.

Land Services

After you pay your land fee, New Entry will:

plow your field in the spring and fall
help to prepare your soil with pH and fertility applications (limited to field-scale applications as indicated by soil tests)
provide sanitary facilities
provide access to water for your crops
provide insurance for general farm liability
plant seed on your field in the fall to protect the soil for the winter

Equipment

You must follow all Equipment Use Guidelines. If you pay the Equipment Fee, New Entry will let you:

use their rototiller
use their flame weeder
use their backpack sprayer
use their hand tools
use their wheelbarrows

If you borrow the rototiller, you will need to pay for the:

Fuel
Oil changes
Any repairs due to misuse

Pesticides

Farmers must follow all Pesticide Safety and Pest Management Guidelines. If you pay the Pesticide Fee, New Entry will let you use the pesticides, which they have purchased for your use.

Cooler

Farmers must follow the Cooler Use Guidelines. If you pay the Cooler Fee, New Entry will let you use the cooler at Richardson's farm to store your crops at any time.

What New Entry Will Expect From You on the Training Farm:

Completion of Business Training Course: You must complete the Business Planning Course and develop a business plan before you begin to farm.

Required Trainings: You must attend the pest management and equipment safety training in order for you to learn how to operate safely and legally on your farm.

Attendance at Trainings and Field Trips: You must attend at least 2/3 of the trainings and field trips during the season so that you can see how established successful farms operate and learn to operate your own farm successfully.

Agreement to Follow the Farmsite rules: You must agree to the site guidelines and pesticide use rules and follow them all season so that you can operate your farm successfully: General Farm Guidelines, Water Use and Irrigation Guidelines, Soil and Land Use Guidelines, Greenhouse Use Guidelines, Insurance Guidelines

Recordkeeping: We expect you to keep good records of

crops which you plant
water use
pesticide use
expenses
ales and revenues

You must share these with New Entry staff so that they can assist you to become successful.

Meetings with staff: You will be expected to meet with New Entry staff on a regular schedule to work on and review your production and marketing needs.

Participation on Farmer committees: You will be expected to participate in at least 2/3 of farmer committee meetings. You will also be expected to participate in Coop meetings if you are a member of the World PEAS Cooperative.

Training Farm Fees

Below is a listing of New Entry farmer fees for the 2009 growing season. This list is provided as an example only, since there may be adjustments to fees in subsequent years.

Land Rental	Acres @ $625/ acre	________
Equipment Fee	$50/season	________
Pesticide Fee	$50/season	________
Cooler Use	$125/season	________
	Grand Total Fee:	___________

The fees noted above are due on April 15th.

Extra Fees

Tractor Services

New Entry will plow your fields. But, New Entry will charge you $40 per hour for our Farm Manager to do extra work to:

lay your plastic on your field
make raised beds on your field
rototill your field
disk and harrow your field
mow your field
remove plastic mulch or trash from your field (plus disposal costs)

You must pay New Entry at the time of service or within one week of these billed services. Graduates of our program may still be eligible for custom tractor services at slightly higher custom tractor rates.

Also, you can call someone else and ask them to do the tractor work for you (with New Entry and landowner permission). Other people may charge a different rate than New Entry.

Trash Disposal

New Entry will charge you for any trash in your field. You will need to plan what you will do with your trash (including drip tape and black plastic) before planting in your field. All trash, stakes, trellis, plastic mulch, drip tape, and other farm supplies must be removed from your field by September 15. Please talk with New Entry staff to learn about your options for cleaning up all of your trash, so you will not have to be charged more money.

Lost Keys

If you lose your keys, New Entry will charge $10 to make new keys for you.