Quick Start Guide | Center for Crop Diversification

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Welcome to the Center for Crop Diversification! We’ve been supporting farmers, small businesses, Extension, non-profits, and many more organizations for 25 years. We provide marketing, economic, and production information for specialty crops, as well as training and other resources for direct marketers as well as those interested in larger sales channels. This site is large and includes lots of information so we created this quick start guide to get you oriented and start exploring.

Below you'll find some good starting points for exploring our site content. If you have any questions along the way, please feel free to contact us.

Quick Start Guide

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Horticulture BizQuiz

If you are trying to figure out what you might want to grow, consider taking the Hort Biz Quiz—a 5 minute survey that will help you identify your strengths and challenges as a growers and some crops you might explore further.

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Crop & Market Publications

We have hundreds of publications covering specific crops, specific markets, general marketing and promotion, budgets, and a whole lot more. There's lots to explore!

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Price Reports

For weekly prices from Farmers Markets and Produce Auctions as well as average price publications and historical price archives, you can go here.

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Trainings

We offer a variety of other ways to learn. We have trainings that we offer like the Marketing for All program as well as trainings offered by our partner organizations. You can learn about those here too.

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Video

If you like learning at your own speed, check out our YouTube channel with hundreds of videos on a variety of specialty crop topics.