New York Farm Viability Institute welcomes you

The New York Farm Viability Institute is a farmer-led nonprofit organization that provides grant funding to applied research and outreach education projects that help farms increase profits and provide models for other farms.

The Institute is dedicated to working with farms of different sizes ... Read more

Project profiles

Dairy Profit Teams help farms bring management to the forefront 

It took several meetings around the kitchen table before all the members of the Dairy Profit Team at Salty Acres Farm in Silver Springs, NY, understood the farm was not interested in increasing the milking herd in hopes of bringing in more cash.

Instead, the farm’s owners, Alan and Trish Mason, and son Jonathan, wanted to explore the things they could do with their existing farm to make it be ... Read more