Farm Resources

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Guides & E-Books
Success Stories
Videos
Webinars
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Sales & Marketing
Blog article

How to Determine Cost of Goods Sold for Your Farm Products

Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) is the total of all costs that go into producing a product. Learn how to calculate cost of goods sold for agriculture and farm businesses, ranches & food hubs.
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Success Stories
Blog article

Scaling an Online Farm Store with Local Line: Melvin’s Farm to Fork

Learn how Melvin’s Farm to Fork grew e-commerce and farm store sales using Local Line’s inventory management, point of sale (PoS), and sales reporting features.
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Farm Operations
Blog article

How to Price Your Farm Products for Wholesale

Learn how to calculate production costs, determine profit margins, and set competitive prices for your farm products in the wholesale market.
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Success stories
Blog article

Scaling an Online Farm Store with Local Line: Melvin’s Farm to Fork

Learn how Melvin’s Farm to Fork grew e-commerce and farm store sales using Local Line’s inventory management, point of sale (PoS), and sales reporting features.
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Success Stories
Blog article

Unlocking Record Online Sales of Grass-fed Beef and Pork: Black Barn Farms

Sarah and Phil's online sales have been thriving! We sat down with Sarah to understand how they use Local Line to sell their meat.
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Success Stories
Blog article

Building a Profitable Farm Subscription Program with Pretty Road Co. Lavender and Farm Store

Learn how Pretty Road Co. Lavender and Farm Store increase their profits with a farm box subscription program on run Local Line.
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April 24
Webinar

Local Line For... Series

Considering Local Line for your farm business or food hub? In this webinar series, we walk through the Local Line platform for every business model.
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May 7
Webinar

Maximizing E-commerce Success: Crafting Offers to Boost Farm Sales

Learn the craft of building a great offer. Join us and Corinna Bench on May 7th at 12 PM EDT.
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Certifications
Webinar

Unlocking New Markets and Building Customer Trust: Certification with CNG

With Local Line, Field Sparrow Farms can get the exact price for their meat by weight. Sell-by-weight features set makes this seamless and efficient.

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Guides and E-Books

How to Sell and Manage Subscriptions
Sales
E-book

How to Profitably Sell Meat Box Subscriptions

Follow these easy steps to sell meat box subscriptions using your online store
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Managing wholesale and retail customers
Farm Operations
E-book

The Farmer's Guide to Managing Wholesale and Retail Customers

Use this easy-to-follow farm-focused e-book to diversify your sales channels today!
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How to sell by weight
Sales
E-book

The Livestock Farmer's Handbook to Selling by Weight

Follow these easy steps to sell by weight using your online store
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Latest Videos

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Local Line guide to inventory management

Take Control of Your Farm's Inventory

Let's deep dive into Local Line's Advanced Inventory feature. Get a sneak peek into the back-end, and learn how you can save TONS of time with inventory management.
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Local Line guide to inventory management

8 Ways to Sell More with Email Marketing

Email marketing is one of the most effective marketing strategies for small businesses. When used right, it can be both relationship-building and profit-building. Learn more!

Local Line Calculators

Price Increase Calculator

Calculate the positive financial impact of a price increase! Get access to our free price increase calculator.
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Minimum Order Calculator

This calculator gives you the formula that ensures profitability on your deliveries. Calculate your optimal order minimum for your business.
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The Farmer's Guide to Selling and Marketing

Ready Farmer One

What if you could increase your farm sales, reach new customers, streamline your sales process, and get back all the time you spend at the farmers’ market? What if this was all possible from your office?
The right sales & marketing strategy makes all of this possible, and Ready Farmer One is the blueprint.  
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Ready Farmer One Book