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Ag Business Development

Cut Flowers

Resources:

• Grow Native! cooperative marketing between MDA and MDC to promote native plant use
• Statistics on Missouri’s floriculture industry (Missouri Agriculture Statistics Service)
• Fact Sheets about the Queensland Cut Flower Industry (Queensland Flower Growers Association) includes a number of fact sheets about marketing and developing linkages within the industry
• Cut Flower Manual (Texas Department of Agriculture) is an outstanding publication with information on production, marketing, and a listing resources for cut-flower growers
• Gardening Resources (Gardenscape) provides information for professionals in the gardening, landscape, and nursery industries
  Research and Educational Development Addressing Floral Industry Needs (American Floral Endowment) includes statistical marketing information, trend information, and research resources
• Growing Your Small Market Farm: a business-planning program for flowers (College of Agriculture, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana)
• Floral Facts: Resources for starting a greenhouse business, calculating costs for in commercial production of outdoors cut flowers (University of Massachusetts Extension) includes a variety of fact sheets on cut flower production and marketing
• Resources for helping you start your growing business in herbs and flowers (Bootstrap Guides)
• Cost of Production of Garden Mums in Containers (Department of Horticulture, Purdue University)
• Guide to Production Information for Commercial Floriculture Growers (pdf) (Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service)
• Wildflowers (Gardenweb) has links to the various resources relating to wildflowers and native plants
• Floral Resource Directory inlcudes a wealth of information for cut flower professionals, including marketing information, on-line auctions, transportation information, and links to many flower resources
• Growing and Marketing Cut Flowers (Efuru Baddele, Farmer, from 1999 Agricultural Marketing Outreach Workshop Training Manual, USDA

Associations and Organizations:

• Grow Native!
• Missouri Landscape & Nursery Association
• Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers
• Illinois State Florists Association
• National Greenhouse Manufacturers Association
• Perennial Plant Association

Floriculture Ventures:

• American Daylily & Perennials is a producer of hybrid daylilies and perennials and is located in Grain Valley, Missouri.
• Dried Flowers Direct from Keuka Flower Farm in New York. The farm includes over 15 acres of flowers and 3 barns and 2 miles in dried flower lines. Their site also contains a variety of resources for persons wanting to produce and sell dried flowers.
• The Secret Garden in Iowa is a flower farm bed and breakfast with three acres of flowers.
• United Flower Growers Co-operative Association, a British Columbia-based cut flower auction in business since 1963
• Sunflower Farm, with over 200 acres of sunflowers in Ohio, is a division of Turpin Farms, which has been in the same family since 1785.