Use these record templates to comply with the Food Safety Modernization Act's Produce Safety Rule.  If you are not covered by the new regulations, these templates can help to easily and efficiently practice food safety on your farm.  

Use this book to help keep track of pesticides sprayed on your farm.  Note that Massachusetts applicators should also record the purpose and method of application.  To be in compliant with the 2017 EPA Worker Protection Standards, you should also record the start and end time of the application.  

Use these record keeping templates to help keep track of your harvests and your sales.  These records are useful for keeping up-to-date records of income for applying for loans and/or grants.  They also can be used for traceability and food safety plans on your farm.  

Use this soil amendment application template developed by Cornell's GAP program (https://gaps.cornell.edu/educational-materials/decision-trees/log-sheets...) to help record what, how much and where you apply fertilizers on your farm.  This template will help you with both the Nutrient Management Plan required by the Massachusetts Department of Agricultual Resources (starting in 2016) and to help with your farm's food safety plan.   

This record keeping template is meant to help you plan out timing and location of crops on your farm.  It also helps you record actual field data once crops have been planted or seeded.   

This one hour online webinar, hosted by the New Entry Sustinable Farming Project and led by Laura Davis, will cover all you need to know about farm record-keeping for organic certefication. Specefic topics include simplifying records on your farm for efficiency and organic certification requirements as well as compost production records needed to gain approval for use on certified organic farms.

About the instructor: Laura Davis owns and operates Long Life Farm in Hopkington MA. Long Life Farm strives to grow nutrient dense food by utilizing organic, biological and mineral balanced farming techniques, it is also certified organic by Baystate Organic Certifiers. Laura has also served as the Organic Certefication Assistance Coordinator for NOFA/MASS and a Organic Inpector.

This material is based upon work supported by the Northeast Extension Risk Managment Education and USDA/NIFA under award number 2015-49200-24225

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsmG_hmVl_8&t=338s

Richard Wiswall, author of The Organic Farmer's Business Handbook, presents techniques for good recordkeeping skills to keep your farm on track with less effort.

A brief overview of NRCS's programs for beginning farmers.  

An introduction to risk management for beginning farmers.  

Jessica Angell, founder of Cabbige, discusses how to keep record-keeping simple, focus on your farm, and make the most of the data you collect. Topics covered will include: technologies that make record-keeping simple and useful, what data to focus on and how to use it, and how data analysis can improve your profitability. 

Learn more about Cabbige at http://www.cabbige.com/