Resources for Farmers and Ranchers

HDFFA has worked with Central Oregon producers for over 10 years. Dig into some of our resources below.

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🥕 Indicates the resource is Regional/Central Oregon-specific

Agritourism

Beginning Farmers and Ranchers (BFR)

BIPOC & Latine Farmers and Ranchers

  • Warm Springs Community Action Team 🥕: Empowering individuals and groups of people to realize their potential, become self-reliant, and affect positive change for themselves, their families, and their community.

  • Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance: Supporting Native communities nationally with advocacy education, and networking as they revitalize their indigenous food systems. 

  • Black Food Fund: Fueling Black-led food systems transformation across the Pacific Northwest.

  • Black Oregon Land Trust 🥕 :Creating opportunities for Black farmers in Oregon to collectively own land, build generational health and wealth, and birth sovereign, thriving communities. 

  • National Black Food and Justice Alliance: A coalition of Black-led organizations aimed at developing Black leadership, supporting Black communities, organizing for Black self-determination, and building institutions for Black food sovereignty & liberation.

  • Black Food Sovereignty Coalition: Member-based organization working in solidarity with Black, Indigenous, and POC (BIPOC) growers, policy makers, advocates, and educators to stabilize food systems infrastructure for marginalized communities in the Pacific Northwest.

  • Adelante Mujeres 🥕: Offering Latina women and their families holistic programs and the tools to achieve self-determination in the areas of education, leadership training, and enterprise.

  • Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (PCUN) 🥕

    • Empowering farmworkers and working Latinx families in Oregon by building community, increasing Latinx representation in elections, and policy advocacy on both the national and state levels.

Business Planning

Conservation

  • USDA Natural Resources Conservation Services (NRCS) (Oregon): Works with private landowners to conserve soil, water, and other natural resources.

  • Oregon Climate and Agriculture Network🥕: Collaboration with farmers to build a regenerative agricultural economy in Oregon that is rooted in community and thrives through disruptions. 

  • Oregon Tilth🥕: Non-profit that supports and advocates for organic food and farming, as well as certifies for organic certification.

  • Deschutes Basin Water Collaborative🥕: Collaborative organized by the Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council of stakeholders working on critical water allocation and management issues in the Deschutes Basin.

  • A Greener World: Non-profit dedicated to empowering sustainable solutions in agriculture by promoting and supporting real-life farming models to the public and offering practical guidance on achieving truly sustainable livestock farming systems to farmers and ranchers.

  • ATTRA Sustainable Agriculture Program: Program from the National Center for Appropriate Technology that “provides high-value information and technical assistance to farmers, ranchers, Extension agents, educators, and others involved in sustainable agriculture.

  • Water Rights and Water Law: Using Your Irrigation Rights Legally🥕: This publication, by OSU Extension, outlines the basics of water law before going more in-depth into exceptions to rules and a self-assessment worksheet.

Funding and Grant Opportunities

Land Access

  • Oregon Farm Link: 🥕Website for land seekers and holders to find each other and access agricultural land.

  • Farmland Access Legal Toolkit:A Guide to helping farmers and landowners affordably access, transfer, and conserve farmland

  • Oregon Agricultural Trust: 🥕 Land trust collaboratively working to safeguard Oregon’s farm and ranch lands and the rural communities that depend upon them.

  • Farmers Land Trust: Developing equitable, scalable, and inspiring solutions to protect farmland and secure tenure for farmers.

  • American Farmland Trust:An organization working at the intersection of land access and environmentally sound farming practices.

  • Farmland for the Next Generation:American Farmland Trust curriculum built to train farmers in the options available to them for land acquisition.

  • Land for Good: National resource list by organization navigating land access, tenure, and transfer.

Marketing

Pasture/Meat Production

  • Oregon Pasture Network 🥕 A program of Friends of Family Farmers offering networking, mentoring, marketing, and more for pasture-based farmers.

  • Niche Meat Processors Assistance Network: Offers resources for meat processing education and assistance including food safety, business planning, navigating regulations, and more.

  • The Good Meat Project: An organization focusing on providing marketing tools and resources for meat producers, as well as peer education opportunities. Includes the Women's Good Meat Network, Grassfed Alliance Initiative, and more.

Policy

  • Friends of Family Farmers🥕: Non-profit amplifying the voices of Oregon’s independent family farmers, food advocates, and concerned citizens.

  • 1000 Friends of Oregon - 2025 Legislative Overview🥕: Regularly updated guide to the policy issues in the Oregon Legislature related to management. This resource is thorough and up to date, although the endorsements do not necessarily reflect the views of HDFFA.

  • National Farmers Union: Non-profit advocating for family farmers, ranchers, fishers, and their communities through education, cooperation, and legislation.

  • National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition: Alliance advocating for federal policy reform to advance the sustainability of agriculture, food systems, natural resources, and rural communities.

Reports

Veterans

Wholesale

Miscellaneous and Other Resource Guides

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