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FreshRoots

FreshRoots Young & Beginning Farmers

FreshRoots equips today's newest farmers for a healthy start in their farming careers, helping rural communities and agriculture thrive today and tomorrow.

FreshRoots provides lending assistance and learning incentives to farmers 40 years of age or younger or in their first 10 years of farming.

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  • Lending Assistance
    FreshRoots Lending Assistance offers loan pricing discounts. Learn if you're eligible.
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  • Learning Incentives
    A FreshRoots participant can earn up to $2,000 in vouchers by attending four FCI workshops within four years.
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  • Directors Cup
    Each year up to six eligible young and beginning farmers and farmer couples are selected as FreshRoots Directors Cup honorees and receive $5,000 cash award and a commemorative keepsake.
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  • Business Templates

    Balance Sheet

    Machinery List

    Business Plan

    Farms Operated Schedule

    Cash Flow Projection

    ...and more

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Get ahead and kickstart your career at FCI.

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