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USDA. NAL. Rural Information Center.
Starting your own farm business offers rewards that range from being your own boss and working at something you enjoy, to earning income for yourself. A successful farm operation requires careful planning and financial assistance options. This guide provides both. PDF Version
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USDA. NAL. Rural Information Center.
This guide serves as a starting point for small communities and concerned individuals to examine the issues and begin to plan feasible programs. It provides web links to full-text information resources.
Publications
- Alternatives to Waste Disposal
- Arts and Humanities Programs in Rural America
- Capital Assistance Funding: A Rural Health Resource Guide
- Case Studies: Forest-Based Partnership Initiatives
- Downtown Revitalization
- Federal Funding Sources for Rural Areas Database
- Federal Rural Development Policy in the Twentieth Century
- Financial Management for Local Governments
- Food Stamps: 1932-1977: From Provisional and Pilot Programs to permanent Policy (PDF | 40 K)
- Guide to Funding Resources
- Historic Preservation Resources
- Innovative Approaches in Rural Education (PDF | 139 KB)
- Managed Care and Rural America: An Annotated Bibliography (PDF | 272 KB)
- Promoting Tourism in Rural America
- Public Transportation on the Move in Rural America (PDF | 598 KB)
- Retirement Communities in Rural America
- Rural Fire Department Resources for Local Officials
- Rural Health Funding Sources: National Foundations,
- Rural Health Services Funding: a Resource Guide (PDF | 330 KB)
- Rural Homeland Security Resources for Local Officials
- Rural Housing Resources
- The Rural Information Center Assists Local Communities (PDF | 1,722 KB)
- Rural Tourism: An Annotated Bibliography (PDF | 257 KB)
- Rural Youth Employment
- Small Farm Funding Sources
- Starting a Child Care Center
- Starting a Small Business
- Stories Across America: Opportunities for Rural Tourism
- Understanding Rural America (PDF | 1,344 KB)
- Volunteer and Nonprofit Organization Resources
- What Is Rural?
Quick Bibliographies
- Agricultural and Farmer Cooperatives (PDF |65 KB)
- Crime in Rural America (PDF |84 KB)
- Hazardous and Toxic Waste Management (PDF | 110 KB)
- Health Care in Rural America (PDF | 277 KB)
- Information Access in Rural America (PDF | 116 KB)
- Leadership Development (PDF | 140 KB)
- Native American Health Care (PDF| 148 KB)
- Native American Natural Resource Management (PDF | 81 KB)
- Population Migration in Rural America (PDF | 126 KB)
- Poverty in Rural America (PDF | 192 KB)
- Rural America's Elderly (PDF | 188 KB)
- Rural Education (PDF | 172K)
- Rural Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development (PDF | 222 KB)
- Rural Industrialization (PDF | 230K)
- Rural Leadership (PDF | 113 KB)
- Tourism Development (PDF | 191 KB)
- Transportation Services in Rural Areas (PDF | 142 KB)