Grow Your Food and Farm Businesses

The Heartland Regional Food Business Center is dedicated to helping farm and food enterprises start up, grow, and connect with local and regional markets.

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OUR MISSION

The Heartland Regional Food Business Center helps farm and food enterprises develop local and regional food businesses and markets. Partners provide assistance from startup through growth, and also support supply chain connections.

START UP

Business planning, mentorship, and  training, are among the startup resources our partners provide and will help you find.

GROW

Farm and food business growth requires planning, financing, management expertise and more. Our team can help.

CONNECT

Finding needed partners in local and regional food processing, distribution, and more can be a challenge. Our team helps you connect.

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A map of the Heartland Region, which includes Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and northwest Arkansas.

About the Heartland Regional Food Business Center

The Heartland Regional Food Business Center works to build a more resilient, responsive, and competitive food system by providing localized and proactive assistance to small, mid-sized, and diverse food and farm businesses, as well as local and regional food sector initiatives. It is one of 12 Regional Food Business Centers established in 2023 and funded initially by the United States Department of Agriculture.
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

USDA Regional Food Business Centers Program

Learn more about the USDA Regional Food Business Centers Program: www.ams.usda.gov/regionalcenters

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