Grow Your Green Farm Profitability (GYG-FP) is an initiative of MFMA, designed to help farmers better understand their farm finances, improve business decision-making, and achieve long-term profitability. Through practical tools, educational resources, and financial recordkeeping support, GYG-FP helps farmers identify what is working, evaluate enterprise performance, and build more resilient farm businesses.

By strengthening farm profitability, this MFMA project supports thriving farmers, vibrant farmers' markets, and stronger local food systems that nourish communities across Minnesota.

Grow Your Green – Access to Markets is an MFMA initiative designed to help emerging farmers build successful farm businesses by increasing access to education, market opportunities, and essential business resources. The program works to reduce barriers that can limit success while providing practical tools, training, and support to help farmers confidently navigate local food systems and connect with customers.

As part of this effort, MFMA offers a growing library of free educational videos on its YouTube channel, making valuable learning opportunities accessible to farmers across Minnesota.

Data is collected from markets across all MFMA regions and serves as a growing tool to strengthen transparency, profitability, and resilience within Minnesota's local foodshed.

The Wifery Livestock Skills Consortium is an educational and skills training program to help livestock farmers increase the care to their livestock and poultry enterprises. The Wifery program combines a curriculum per species with a kit of essential equipment and supplies. Regardless of the health issue, all solutions are included, from certified organic to pharmaceutical. Each in-person session covers the material and hands-on practice with the equipment. There are four basic platforms:

1. Basic Livestock Care: 'normal' livestock health per species is covered. Kit includes supplies needed for suturing wounds, splinting legs, giving shots (SQ, IM, IV, IP), taking blood samples, syringes, needles, etc.
2. Parasite Management: ID the worm eggs in manure samples from participants' livestock, discuss management solutions. The Fecal Flotation Kit is used during the workshop and available for sale.
3. Birthing & Babies: material covers health needs for both the mothers of each species as well as the babies. Kit includes tubing, ear tagging & tattooing, etc.
4. Nutrition & Management.