Find your local county extension office with this list of the agricultural extension offices across the US

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Find your local county extension office with this list of the agricultural extension offices across the US

If you are trying to start your own busines, whther it is a cottage food business, home-based food business or even a regular full-fledged corporation, you will need to contact your state's secretary office state's office to make your bsuiness leal.  And while there are services like LegalZoom and Nolo.com that complete the paperwork for your (typically $200 to $500) it's pretty easy to do yourself. =Just go to your state's secretary of states website and use their search box to search for  these pharses:

Are you looking for help with a question about your garden, lawn, finding a farm or anything agricultural? The solution is your local county extension agent from the Cooperative Extension office; and they're free! To find your local county extension agent's office, just click on your state on the map below!  The Cooperative Extension System is a nationwide, non-credit educational network. Each U.S. state and territory has a state office at its land-grant university and a network of local or regional offices. These offices are staffed by one or more experts who provide useful, practical, and research-based information to agricultural producers, small business owners, youth, consumers, and others in rural areas and communities of all sizes.

Further down this page, you will also find links to each state's department of agriculture.

Each State's Secretary of State's Offices

Just click on your state or territory:

Alabama Alaska   Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida - Georgia

Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland

Massachusetts Michigan   Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey

New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania   Rhode Island South Carolina

South Dakota Tennessee Texas   Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming