{"id":810,"date":"2016-05-09T11:46:24","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T15:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/groundwk\/?page_id=810"},"modified":"2025-11-16T12:11:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T16:11:25","slug":"guides-on-equipment-for-beginning-farmers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/groundwk\/for-new-farmers\/guides-on-equipment-for-beginning-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Guides on Equipment for Beginning Farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/groundwk\/files\/2014\/04\/EquipmentTools4SmallScale_PressmanATTRA-tools-1.pdf\">Equipment and Tools For Small Scale, Intensive Crop Production<\/a><\/strong> by Andy Pressman, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist. This 16-page booklet focuses on equipment and tools for intensive crop production on a small-scale commercial farm. It details equipment and hand tools for soil preparation, planting, and weed management. Published by NCAT, 2011.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/groundwk\/files\/2016\/05\/Ka\u2026\">Leasing vs. Buying Farm Machinery<\/a><\/strong>, this 8-page Kansas State guide helps you evaluate the options and their financial implications over time.<\/p>\n<p>This <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/groundwk\/files\/2014\/04\/Wiswall-sheet.pdf\">Optimal Equipment for Beginning Farmers<\/a><\/strong> by Richard Wiswall, farmer, consultant and author of The Organic Farmers Business Handbook shows lists of equipment for three scales of beginning farms: 1 acre or less, 1-3 acres, and 3-9+ acres.<\/p>\n<p>This <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/groundwk\/tractor-purchase-maintenance\/buying-machinery\/\">tractor purchasing decision-making page<\/a><\/strong> provides guidance on\u00a0what to consider when buying a tractor, new or used.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/groundwk\/for-new-farmers\/guides-on-equipment-for-beginning-farmers\/tractor-small-engine-hand-tool-selection-use-maintenance-and-repair-for-small-farms\/\">Tractor, Small Engine, and Hand Tool Selection, Use, Maintenance, and Repair for Small to Mid-Scale Sustainable Farms<\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0From Georgia Organics, this set of instructional publications and how-to videos are designed to help small and mid-scale farmers select, maintain, use and troubleshoot tools and equipment on their farms. Many of the publications are available in both Spanish and English.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll find basic questions to ask before making a decision about a used tractor with this short <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/groundwk\/files\/2016\/05\/ATTRA-checklist-for-used-tractors.pdf\">Used Tractor Assessment Checklist.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Equipment and Tools For Small Scale, Intensive Crop Production by Andy Pressman, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist. This 16-page booklet focuses on equipment and tools for intensive crop production on a small-scale commercial farm. It details equipment and hand tools for soil preparation, planting, and weed management. Published by NCAT, 2011. Leasing vs. Buying Farm Machinery, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/groundwk\/for-new-farmers\/guides-on-equipment-for-beginning-farmers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Guides on Equipment for Beginning Farmers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3010,"featured_media":0,"parent":807,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-810","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P8hlBh-d4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/groundwk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/groundwk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/groundwk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/groundwk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3010"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/groundwk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/groundwk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1219,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/groundwk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/810\/revisions\/1219"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/groundwk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/groundwk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}