Name | Description | Services Offered | Locations Served | State |
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UT MANAGE |
MANAGE was designed specifically to help Tennessee farm families carefully evaluate their individual situation and assist them in improving their quality of life. Staff trained in farm and financial management help families analyze their total farming business so they can make informed decisions regarding their future. | Financial | Statewide through county Extension offices | Tennessee |
UT Farming Fundamentals |
The UT Farming Fundamentals educational program is an online resource focusing on producers who are beginning a new venture in agriculture. This program will include resources and information on the essential principles needed to build a successful operation. | Financial,Farm Operations | Statewide through Extension | Tennessee |
UT Dairy Gauge Program |
The Dairy Gauge Program is a joint effort between UT Dairy and the MANAGE Program. This financial program is focused on one-on-one support between consultants and dairy farmers to help understand cost of production, identify areas of financial strength, and opportunities to gain efficiency. | Financial,Farm Operations | Statewide through Extension | Tennessee |
UT Center of Farm Management |
The UT Center of Farm Management facilitates Extension, Teaching, and Research programs on farm financial management in Tennessee, and across the Mid-South. The Center focuses on meeting the needs of Tennessee producers and enhancing long-term profitability and sustainability of agriculture enterprises in Tennessee. | Farm Operations,Financial,Legal | Statewide | Tennessee |
The Land Trust for Tennessee |
The Land Trust for Tennessee protects working farms and forests, recreational and scenic places, historic landscapes, urban land, critical watershed areas and community and cultural resources across the state. | Farm Operations,Legal | Statewide | Tennessee |
Tennessee Suicide Prevention Network |
The Tennessee Suicide Prevention Network (TSPN) is a statewide organization connecting Tennesseans to suicide prevention trainings, events, and resources. TSPN offers free trainings specialized for business, schools, and organizations to detect warning and risk factors of suicide and has readily available resources on their website. | Mental Health | Statewide through 7 regional offices | Tennessee |
Tennessee New Farmer Academy |
The Tennessee New Farmer Academy is a seven-month certificate program designed for those with an interest in becoming agricultural entrepreneurs. The program focuses on teaching the concepts, providing the information, and facilitating the hands-on experience needed to build solid, viable, and successful agricultural businesses. | Farm Operations | Statewide through regional locations in East Tennessee, Central Tennessee, and Western Tennessee | Tennessee |
Tennessee Master Farm Manager |
The Tennessee Master Farm Manager focuses on solid business principles and efficiently utilizing resources on the farm. | Farm Operations,Financial,Legal | Statewide through Extension | Tennessee |
Tennessee Farm Bureau |
Tennessee Farm Bureau aims to develop, foster, promote, and protect programs for the general welfare, including economic, social, educational and political well-being of farm people of the great state of Tennessee. | Financial | Statewide | Tennessee |
Tennessee Emergency Management Agency |
Tennessee Emergency Management Agency coordinates preparedness, response, and recovery from man-made, natural, and technological hazards. TEMA supports local jurisdictions during emergencies by managing teams to address the emergency, activating the State Emergency Operations Center, and reaching out for mutual aid. After the emergency has passed, TEMA conducts damage assessments, ensures local needs are met, and coordinates federal assistance programs provided as a result of the disaster. | Weather,Disaster | Statewide | Tennessee |
Tennessee Disaster Mental Health Strike Team |
The TN Disaster Mental Health Strike Team is a team of trained Chaplains, Mental Health, and Emergency Service Peer Professionals who serve specific regions in Tennessee with two primary purposes: to provide Mental Health First Aid, Crisis Intervention, and initial mental health triage for citizens and emergency responders following major disasters and to provide a timely initial referral to Licensed Mental Health Care Professionals - including immediate emergency referrals when appropriate. | Mental Health | Statewide | Tennessee |
Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services |
The Tennessee Department of Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services is the state’s mental health and substance abuse authority. The department is responsible for planning, setting policy and quality standards, system monitoring and evaluation, and advocating for persons of all ages who have mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, or substance abuse disorders. TDMHSAS creates collaborative pathways to resiliency, recovery, and independence for Tennesseans living with mental illness and substance use disorders. | Mental Health | Statewide | Tennessee |
Tennessee Department of Health |
Health | Statewide | Tennessee | |
Tennessee Department of Agriculture |
The TN Department of Agriculture serves all the citizens of Tennessee by providing options for responsible use of our agricultural and forest resources, developing economic opportunities, safeguarding food and fiber, and ensuring equity in the marketplace. | Farm Operations | Statewide | Tennessee |
Tennessee Association of Rescue Squads |
The Tennessee Association of Rescue Squads is an Association of Life Saving, Rescue, and First Aid Units with members organized, trained, and equipped for various types of rescue and first aid work. | Disaster, Safety | Statewide | Tennessee |
Tennessee AgrAbility |
Tennessee AgrAbility educates and assists Tennessee’s farmers, farm workers and their family members that have disabilities so they can increase their independence and productivity. | Physical Health,Disasbility | Statewide through county Extension offices | Tennessee |
Southern Cotton Ginners Association |
The Southern Cotton Ginners Association is a non-profit organization that allies members for the improvement and advancement of business interests in the cotton industry across the Mid-South. | Farm Operations | Tennessee | |
Southern Cotton Ginners Association |
The Southern Cotton Ginners Association is a non-profit organization that allies members for the improvement and advancement of business interests in the cotton industry across the Mid-South. | Farm Operations | Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee | Tennessee |
River Valley Ag Credit |
River Valley AgCredit is a federally-chartered, locally operated agriculture credit cooperative serving western Kentucky and eastern Tennessee whose profits go back to their member-borrowers. | Financial | East Tennessee | Tennessee |
Farm Credit Mid-America |
Farm Credit Mid-America exists to secure the future of rural communities and agriculture as a leading provider of reliable, consistent credit and financial services to 135,000 farmers, producers, agribusinesses and rural residents in Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee. Farm Credit Mid-America’s products and services include loans for real estate, operating, equipment and rural living, as well as related services including crop insurance and vehicle, equipment and building leases. | Financial | Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana: branches located across states | Tennessee |
Farm Animal Care Coalition of Tennessee |
The Farm Animal Care Coalition of Tennessee (FACCT) represents the animal agriculture industry in Tennessee and serves as a resource regarding humane care, well-being issues, and best management practices. FACCT is a non-profit organization operated by members composed of Tennessee agricultural organizations, individual farmers, and others working together to assure the sustainability of the diverse animal agriculture community. | Farm Operations,Legal,Labor | Statewide | Tennessee |
Center for Profitable Agriculture |
The Center for Profitable Agriculture provides educational programming and technical assistance to Tennessee farmers interested in a value-added enterprise to improve farm income. Specialists at the center work in many areas of value-added agriculture and may be able to help in the evaluation and development process through individual assistance, workshops and conferences, and other resources and planning tools. | Financial,Farm Viability & Operations | Statewide | Tennessee |
Center for Profitable Agriculture |
The Center for Profitable Agriculture provides educational programming and technical assistance to Tennessee farmers interested in a value-added enterprise to improve farm income. | Financial,Farm Operations | Statewide through county Extension offices | Tennessee |