Agriculture Human Resources Boot Camp: Equipping Producers to Strategically Manage Their Number One Commodity - People
Award Amount: $50,000
Institution: Washington Farm Bureau Federation
Project Director: Rick Gastelum (rgastelum@wsfb.com)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2018 Education Projects
Summary
Human capital or labor comes with unique risks in agricultural...
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Agritourism Intensive 2018: Managing the Risks of Agritourism for California Farm and Ranch Diversification
Award Amount: $49,780
Institution: University of California, Davis
Project Director: Gail Feenstra (gwfeenstra@ucdavis.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2018 Education Projects
Summary
This project delivers strategies for understanding, evaluating and managing the...
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Beginner Farmer Needs Assessment: Perceiving Constraints and Opportunities to Farming Beyond the 10 Year Mark
Award Amount: $2,000
Institution: University of California Davis
Project Director: Sara Riegler (seriegler@ucdavis.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2018 Exploratory Projects
Summary
This project will seek to understand the constraints experienced by...
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Building Beginning Farmer's Financial Record Keeping and Risk Analysis Capabilities
Award Amount: $37,583
Institution: Center for Land-Based Learning
Project Director: Sri Sethuratnam (sri@landbasedlearning.org)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2018 Education Projects
Summary
This project will cover financial records and analysis, and cost...
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Connecting and Strengthening Livestock Supply Chain Nodes: Managing Risk and Assessing New Market Opportunities for Small to Mid-Sized Livestock Production and Processing in Colorado
Award Amount: $50,000
Institution: Colorado State University
Project Director: Daniel Mooney (daniel.mooney@colostate.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2018 Education Projects
Summary
Livestock supply chains built around
growing consumer demand for differentiated meat...
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Decreasing winter chill: risks and implications for Northwest tree-fruit producers.
Award Amount: $49,892
Institution: Washington State University
Project Director: Kirti Rajagopalan (kirtir@wsu.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2018 Education Projects
Summary
Washington State is the #1 producer of tree-fruit (apples, pears,...
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Educational Needs around Climate Resilience of Latina and Latino Farmers in California
Award Amount: $2,000
Institution: Multination Exchange for Sustainable Agriculture
Project Director: Natalia Pinzon Jimenez (natalia@nataliapinzon.com)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2018 Exploratory Projects
Summary
This project will explore the unique educational needs of latina/latino...
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Evaluating the Feasibility of Scaling Up Existing Enterprises, Adding Alternative Enterprises, Through a Systems Thinking Approach Based on Whole Farm and Enterprise Benchmarks for South Central Utah Beginning Farmers and Ranchers
Award Amount: $48,469
Institution: Snow College
Project Director: Jay Olsen (jay.olsen@snow.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2018 Education Projects
Summary
Building on participants' previously acquired knowledge of analyzing their businesses,...
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Farm Business Development and Production Scale-Up for Socially Disadvantaged Farmers
Award Amount: $47,903
Institution: Adelante Mujeres
Project Director: Silvia Cuesta (scuesta@adelantemujeres.org)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2018 Education Projects
Summary
Lead applicant Adelante Mujeres will ensure that 45 socially disadvantaged...
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Hawaii Women Farmers: Utilizing Farmer-to-Farmer Networks to Manage Risk
Award Amount: $49,980
Institution: Oahu Resource Conservation and Development Council
Project Director: Jean Brokish (jean.brokish@oahurcd.org)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2018 Education Projects
Summary
Oahu RC&D will utilize
on-farm workshops and internet / social media...
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Human Resource Skill Development Workshop: How to Manage to Reduce Human and Legal Risk
Award Amount: $44,306
Institution: AgSafe
Project Director: Theresa Kiehn (theresa@agsafe.org)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2018 Education Projects
Summary
The AgSafe Human
Resource Skill Develop Workshop: How to Manage to...
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Idaho Farm and Ranch Risk Management Education
Award Amount: $47,250
Institution: University of Idaho
Project Director: Ben Eborn (beborn@uidaho.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2018 Education Projects
Summary
Agribusiness is Idaho’s number one economic sector. A strong...
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Integrating Mentorship Tools and On-farm Participatory Education to Increase Innovation and Mitigate Risks
Award Amount: $2,000
Institution: MESA
Project Director: Leah Atwood (leah@agroecologycommons.org)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2018 Exploratory Projects
Summary
A
collaboration between MESA and the Rogue Farm Corps, this
project will...
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Managing Short and Long-term Risk on Foothill Farms and Ranches in Northern California
Award Amount: $49,756
Institution: University of California Cooperative Extension
Project Director: Cindy Fake (cefake@ucanr.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2018 Education Projects
Summary
The goal of this project is to reduce risk and...
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Marketing Strategies for New Organic Farms
Award Amount: $50,000
Institution: Agriculture and Land-Based Training Association
Project Director: Christopher Brown (chris@albafarmers.org)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2018 Education Projects
Summary
This
project addresses marketing risks faced by beginning and socially-disadvantaged
(BSD) farmers...
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Minimizing Risks for Small Farms through Web-based Record Keeping
Award Amount: $48,201
Institution: Western Nevada College
Project Director: Ann Louhela (louhela.ann@gmail.com)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2018 Education Projects
Summary
This project aims to improve financial and legal
risks for beginning,...
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Planning a Hands-on Grazing Academy focused on Management Intensive Grazing for North Idaho Cattle Producers
Award Amount: $2,000
Institution: University of Idaho Extension, Boundary County
Project Director: Kathleen Painter (kpainter@uidaho.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2018 Exploratory Projects
Summary
This project would focus on adapting materials from the Lost
Rivers...
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Providing Training Opportunities for Safe Operation of Tractors and Equipment in the Four Corners.
Award Amount: $26,119
Institution: San Juan RC&D
Project Director: Beth LaShell (bblashell@gmail.com)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2018 Education Projects
Summary
Identifying that time when producers are ready to move from...
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Succession Planning for Washington’s Forest Landowners
Award Amount: $47,834
Institution: Washington State University
Project Director: Andrew Perleberg (andyp@wsu.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2018 Education Projects
Summary
This project will educate producers about transitioning family forests to...
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The Art of Range podcast
Award Amount: $49,723
Institution: Washington State University Kittitas County Extension
Project Director: Tipton Hudson (hudsont@wsu.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2018 Education Projects
Summary
This project will establish a biweekly (26
episodes per year) podcast...
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