The document highlighted here provides an evaluation plan "overview." It includes items to think about or help develop an evaluation plan.

A .pdf with an overview and instructions and template for the farm and ranch business health assessment.

This survey from Farm Beginnings, Land Stewardship Project was created in 2015 and collects data from Farm Beginning Incubator graduates used for reporting and program improvement.

This is a template of the farm and ranch business health assessment that can be filled out. This self-assessment is designed to help beginning farmers identify their business knowledge. There are nine sections covering different aspects of business health, such as business formation, land, accounting, taxation, labor & contractors, production & marketing, credit, and business plan (including insurance, energy and other items). When you visit the page, click on "Business Health with Goals," which will provide you with an automatic download.

This is a template of the farm and ranch business readiness assessment that can be filled out. This self-assessment is designed to help aspiring farmers identify their business knowledge before beginning a farming or ranching operation. There are nine sections covering different aspects of business health, such as business formation, land, accounting, taxation, labor & contractors, production & marketing, credit, and business plan (including insurance, energy and other items). When you go to the site, click "Business Readiness Assessment," which will start an automatic download of the template.

This report compares how farm seekers’ needs align with the offerings of farm owners whose farm assets may transfer out of family in the 12-state North Central Region as defined by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. 

"This study examines the benefits and impacts of farmers markets, tools for data collection, and indicators for measurement for identified impacts by reviewing a selection of existing research on farmers markets published between 1999 and 2015. This literature review helps to understand the current status of data collection and measurement tools available and in use at markets to assess the impact of farmers markets. It also addresses the issues of challenges and barriers to data collection at markets and suggests what can be done for reliable data collection to take place in the market environment."

The Feedback and Assessment sheet compiled from various resources by Julie Sullivan, NAP Founding Mentor of the Quivira Coaltion, gives tools and tips for how and when to provide feedback, and various information regarding what is good feedback, and what to expect when giving feedback.

Focus group guide for incubator farm outcome evaluation

This primarily qualitative study used interviews with program leaders and their responses to a questionnaire to assess the 30 active and closed farm link programs of the 12 states of the U.S. Midwest and Central Plains, resulting in a collection of best practice recommendations.