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Updated: February 11, 2021
By Ginger S. Myers

Starting an agricultural business in Maryland is an exciting and challenging undertaking. But, careful planning, a good understanding of your numbers, adaptability, and perseverance are often the keys to a successful business start-up.

Your Ag Business Venture:  Dream, Plan, Implement is a guide designed to put you in the driver's seat while on the road to making your ag business idea a reality. There are many good tools and resources within this guide to help you along the way.

This free resource may be accessed two ways:

  1. Dream Plan Implement PDF, with a hyperlinked table of contents.
  2. Dream Plan Implement on Issuu, a digital reader for publications - great for hand-held devices such as a tablet.

How to use Dream, Plan, Implement!

Since this publication is designed to be interactive with the internet, it is recommended that it be viewed using a computer, tablet, or other mobile devices that have internet capability.

Text links in this publication are underscored, and some images are actively linked. Resources are featured throughout, but you will find a major list of resources beginning on page 19.

Happy Exploring!

Material for this publication was researched, written, and formatted by Ginger S. Myers, Marketing Specialist and Director of Maryland Rural Enterprise Development Center, University of Maryland Extension.