at the Rendezvous Center on the Goshen County Fairgrounds
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* Opening
Remarks and Announcements - Cole Ehmke
& Welcome to Goshen
County - Ron Pulley
* Keynote address - Joel Salatin
Joel
Salatin's slides
* Chicken tractors - Joel Salatin
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Marketing to Local Markets - Marla Peterson
& Celeste Havener
* Business Strategies for Success - Greg Jarvis
* Keynote: Putting Small Farms at the Center of the Next Wave of Change
in Agriculture - Chuck Hassebrook
* Reversing the Bias Toward Bigness
in Federal Policy to Strengthen Small Farms - Chuck Hassebrook
*
Getting Started with Herb Production - Curtis Haderlie
* Cultivating
a Healthy New Venture - Rod Sharp & John Hewlett
* Joel Salatin on a
topic directed by the interest of the audience - Joel Salatin
* Fruit production in
Wyoming - Kerrie Badertscher
* Tools for Insuring the Odds of Success
- John Hewlett
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* Welcome by Tara Beley USDA Risk Management
Agency
& Comments by Jo Ann Warner Western Center for Risk
Management Education
* Keynote: From Sheep to Breathing Space
Reassessing what we have and how it can work for us - Diane Peavy
* Social Media: Farm
Fresh Ideas for Value-Added Marketing - Kim Sears
* The Chicken or
the Egg - Bren Lieske
* Farming with a Sharp Pencil - Dallas Mount
* CSAs, Farmers Markets, Direct-to-Consumer Marketing - Mike & Cindy
Ridenour
* Direct Marketing Meat - Cindy Goertz & Ron Pulley
*
Using Marketing Claims to Add Value - John Patrick
We will feature noted speaker and farmer Joel Salatin, and other noted speakers will join him. Plus we will offer concurrent sessions, tours, local food and youth activities. Our planning group is working to build an interesting and useful program for food producers and people with small and large acreages (especially if you are new to agriculture or are a woman or a Native American involved with agriculture). Come to the conference and learn how to address the practical problems of managing your farm or ranch.
Speakers:
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Joel Salatin is a third-generation alternative farmer in
Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. He believes that healing the land and
making it agriculturally productive can be done at the same time
using principles that are not dependent on size. He will speak on developing an understanding of the interrelationships between plants and animals, the need for diversity and how direct marketing can be a part of vibrant rural communities. |
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Event
Schedule Click here to view a program of activities for the entire conference
Conference Flyer
Tours |
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Youth
Activities Activities for youth school-age and up will be provided by Audubon Wyoming Community Naturalists and 4-H educators. Your child can participate in these fun programs while you attend sessions: Bio-Blitz Wildlife Safari, Bird Basics, Signs of Life: Tracking Animals, Audubon Adventures, Arts & Crafts, and more. If you are planning to bring your children with you to the conference, please mention this when registering.
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Registration
(includes
all locally-sourced meals)
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Pre-registration by July 25: Producers - $50; Agency/Other - $100
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After July 25: Producers: - $75 Agency/Other - $150
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A limited number of scholarships are available for agriculture producers
(scholarships cover registration costs and hotel (until no more hotel
rooms are available)).
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Click here to download a printable registration form.
Menu
for Conference meals
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a menu for the conference meals.
Location
of the Conference
Local Information
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Contact
Want to be kept informed about the conference or have suggestions? Send
them to Cole Ehmke of the University of Wyoming’s Cooperative Extension
Service at
cehmke@uwyo.edu or call (307) 766-3782.
Past Conference
View information from the
2007 conference
The Planning Group
Conference organizers include:
• University of Wyoming Extension,
ces.uwyo.edu
• Wyoming Business Council,
www.wyomingbusiness.org
• Wyoming Women in Agriculture
• Audubon Wyoming,
audubonwyoming.org
• Small Acreage Issue Team,
barnyardsandbackyards.com
• Profitable and Sustainable Ag Systems Initiative Team,
WyoAg.net
• UW Agricultural and Applied Economics,
agecon.uwyo.edu
• USDA Risk Management Agency,
www.rma.usda.gov
This project is supported with funds received from
the USDA Risk Management Agency.
Click here to
view information from the
2007 Living and Working on the Land Event