SC New and Beginning Farmer Program

SC New and Beginning Farmer Program

2025 SC Farmer Resource Rodeo

Thursday, January 30, 2025

9:00 AM – 4:30 PM

Senate’s End
316 Senate Street
Columbia, SC 29201

$25.00, includes lunch

An in-person networking gathering of resource providers for aspiring, beginning, and small-scale farmers at a single event! Learn about organizations and programs to support your farm business and make new connections!

Click here to learn more and register >>


Class of 2024 Portal

Interested in taking a deeper dive into relevant topics for the emerging farmer audience?  We are excited to offer full day agribusiness and production focused workshops.  Click here to learn more and register!

Welcome to the South Carolina New and Beginning Farmer program (SCNBFP).  The SCNBFP is focused on enabling new and beginning farmers to be successful, productive, and innovative members of their local agricultural community by providing them with the tools, knowledge and skills necessary to be successful entrepreneurs; sound business managers; exemplary stewards of SWAPA (soil, water, air, plants, and animals), and successful marketers of the unique products they create; and, perhaps most importantly, individuals who have a sense of pride and quality of life as a result of their investment and participation in the agricultural community of South Carolina.

The SCNBFP is a Clemson Extension Agribusiness Team Program that is supported by a USDA-NIFA Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program Grant (USDA-NIFA Award No. 2021-70033-35707).

Connect

Applications for the SC New and Beginning Farmer Program Class of 2025 cohort program will open in mid-December 2024 with programming running April - August 2025.  Please use the link below to be added to our program notification list to be alerted when the application window opens.

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