Award Amount: $28,446
Institution: Iowa State University
Project Director: Jennifer Bentley (jbentley@iastate.edu)
Funding Opportunity: North Central ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
This project provided producers
and employees with tools needed to make...
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Award Amount: $30,952
Institution: University of Vermont Extension
Project Director: Lisa Chase (lisa.chase@uvm.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Northeast ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
As consumer demand for local food and farm experiences has...
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Award Amount: $48,478
Institution: Snow College
Project Director: Jay Olsen (jay.olsen@snow.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
This project increased participants' management knowledge and
ability to identify production...
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Award Amount: $46,581
Institution: National Center for Appropriate Technology
Project Director: Kevin Ellis (kevine@ncat.org)
Funding Opportunity: Southern ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
This project addressed the inherent risks of disease transmission in...
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Award Amount: $49,990
Institution: MESA, Inc.
Project Director: Natalia Pinzon Jimenez (natalia@nataliapinzon.com)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
Our project enabled farmers to utilize an online course and...
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Award Amount: $47,724
Institution: University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, UPRM
Project Director: Alexandra Gregory (alexandra.gregory@upr.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Southern ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
This
project addressed marketing risks for beginning veterans, and underserved
producers in...
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Award Amount: $47,970
Institution: National Crop Insurance Services
Project Director: Laurence Crane (laurencec@ag-risk.org)
Funding Opportunity: Southern ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
The outcome of this project was to
enable small, limited resource,...
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Award Amount: $23,743
Institution: San Juan RC&D
Project Director: Beth LaShell (bblashell@gmail.com)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
Small vegetable and fruit farmers in the 4-Corners region have...
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Award Amount: $37,456
Institution: Trustees of Tufts College / New Entry Sustainable Farming Project
Project Director: Jennifer Hashley (jennifer.hashley@tufts.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Northeast ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
This project developed statewide trainings and educational resources on farm...
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Award Amount: $30,894
Institution: Washington State University
Project Director: Kevin Zobrist (kevin.zobrist@wsu.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2017 Education Projects
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Award Amount: $49,431
Institution: Utah State University
Project Director: Kynda Curtis (kynda.curtis@usu.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
This project saught to increase fresh produce sales through direct...
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Award Amount: $49,996
Institution: South Dakota State University
Project Director: Lisa Elliott (lisa.elliott@sdstate.edu)
Funding Opportunity: North Central ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
North Central producers improved
their risk management skills as they face...
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Award Amount: $31,168
Institution: University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension
Project Director: Kelly McAdam (kelly.mcadam@unh.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Northeast ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
Women play a critical role in managing and carrying out...
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Award Amount: $50,000
Institution: University of Minnesota
Project Director: Nathan Hulinsky (huli0013@umn.edu)
Funding Opportunity: North Central ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
With the current challenging state of the farm economy, there...
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Award Amount: $36,974
Institution: Pennsylvania Farm Link, Inc.
Project Director: Darlene Livingston (c-daliving@pa.gov)
Funding Opportunity: Northeast ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
Diverse educational opportunities provided access to farm succession and family...
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Award Amount: $50,000
Institution: Virginia Tech
Project Director: Kimberly Morgan (klmorgan@vt.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Southern ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
The initiative's goal was to enhance whole farm
planning (WFP) programming...
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Award Amount: $49,496
Institution: La Montanita Coop
Project Director: Benjamin Bartley (benjamin.bartley@lamontanita.coop)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
La Montanita Cooperative provided farmer-friendly, food safety workshops for growers...
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Award Amount: $27,293
Institution: Alabama Cooperative Extension System - Kevin Burkett
Project Director: Kevin Burkett (ksb0002@auburn.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Southern ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
Producers received education on concepts of marketing. We targeted the...
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Award Amount: $47,413
Institution: Western FBFM Association
Project Director: Robert Rhea (bobrhea@adams.net)
Funding Opportunity: North Central ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
A projected farm income statement, CDRC, and crop cost breakeven...
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Award Amount: $25,073
Institution: Oklahoma State University
Project Director: Sara Siems (sara.siems@okstate.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Southern ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
The goal of this proposal was to expand programming for...
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Award Amount: $50,000
Institution: Cornell University
Project Director: Elizabeth Higgins (emh56@cornell.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Northeast ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
In Good to Great: Improving Labor Management on Farms in...
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Award Amount: $50,000
Institution: Alternative Energy Resources Organization (AERO)
Project Director: Kaleena Miller (kmiller@aeromt.org)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
Montana’s new Food Policy Modernization Law (MFPML) offers an unprecedented...
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Award Amount: $49,881
Institution: University of Illinois
Project Director: Gary Schnitkey (schnitke@illinois.edu)
Funding Opportunity: North Central ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
This educational program details the habits of farmers who excel...
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Award Amount: $48,398
Institution: Colorado State University
Project Director: Dana Hoag (dhoag@colostate.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
Two workshops were offered to
furrow-irrigation producers in the...
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Award Amount: $38,300
Institution: Idaho Barley Commission
Project Director: Kelly Olson (kolson@barley.idaho.gov)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
This educational program was targeted at Idaho's grain and livestock...
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Award Amount: $38,500
Institution: Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project
Project Director: Molly Nicholie (molly@asapconnections.org)
Funding Opportunity: Southern ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
ASAP’s (Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project) project: “Innovative Marketing, Production and...
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Award Amount: $47,000
Institution: Annies Project--Education for Farm Women
Project Director: Ruth Hambleton (hambleton.ruth@gmail.com)
Funding Opportunity: North Central ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
Know Your Numbers, Know Your Options is a financial risk...
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Award Amount: $37,033
Institution: University of Minnesota
Project Director: Nathan Hulinsky (huli0013@umn.edu)
Funding Opportunity: North Central ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
Employee turnover is costly to any business; The Society for...
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Award Amount: $45,891
Institution: Legal Aid of Nebraska
Project Director: Michelle Soll (msoll@legalaidofnebraska.org)
Funding Opportunity: North Central ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
Through our educational workshops, the principal objective of this project...
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Award Amount: $31,000
Institution: TSNE-The Carrot Project
Project Director: Julia Grigg (jgrigg@thecarrotproject.org)
Funding Opportunity: Northeast ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
Making It Happen is an outcome-based risk management training to...
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Award Amount: $49,776
Institution: Oklahoma State University
Project Director: Shannon Ferrell (shannon.l.ferrell@okstate.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Southern ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
New technologies enable farmers to collect and analyze unprecedented amounts...
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Award Amount: $49,358
Institution: University of Tennessee
Project Director: Andrew Griffith (agriff14@utk.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Southern ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
Managing forage risk is an integral part of grazing livestock...
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Award Amount: $45,454
Institution: Oregon State University Extension
Project Director: Maud Powell (maud.powell@oregonstate.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
This project addresseed the legal, market and financial risks of...
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Award Amount: $50,000
Institution: Center for Profitable Agriculture
Project Director: Wendell Pepper (hal.pepper@utk.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Southern ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
The project addressed unique financial and human risks faced
by...
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Award Amount: $49,077
Institution: Virginia Tech
Project Director: Julie Shortridge (jshortridge@vt.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Southern ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
While irrigation can mitigate risks associated with
insufficient rainfall during the...
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Award Amount: $49,941
Institution: The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System
Project Director: Joy Kirkpatrick (joy.kirkpatrick@ces.uwex.edu)
Funding Opportunity: North Central ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
Managing Farm Succession & Profit Margins reached 301 producers with...
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Award Amount: $49,660
Institution: Kansas State University
Project Director: Gregory Ibendahl (ibendahl@ksu.edu)
Funding Opportunity: North Central ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
From 2006 through 2013, Kansas farmers saw record levels of...
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Award Amount: $49,438
Institution: Purdue University
Project Director: Nathan Thompson (thomp530@purdue.edu)
Funding Opportunity: North Central ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
Increased price volatility, lower crop
prices, and tight operating margins have...
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Award Amount: $40,104
Institution: University of Vermont and State Agricultural College
Project Director: Heather Darby (heather.darby@uvm.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Northeast ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
Since the late 1800s, farmers have used subsurface tile drainage...
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Award Amount: $47,880
Institution: New Mexico Cooperative Extension Service
Project Director: Michael Patrick (jmpat@nmsu.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
The goal of the Navajo Rancher
Sustainability Project was been to...
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Award Amount: $49,999
Institution: Iowa State University Office of Sponsored Programs
Project Director: Russ Euken (reuken@iastate.edu)
Funding Opportunity: North Central ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
To date we have not publicly released the on-line course...
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Award Amount: $35,973
Institution: Cornell Cooperative Extension-Tompkins County
Project Director: Matthew LeRoux (mnl28@cornell.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Northeast ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
This project addressed marketing and financial risks faced by many...
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Award Amount: $48,846
Institution: Oklahoma State University
Project Director: Damona Doye (damona.doye@okstate.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Southern ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
Our goal was to direct producers to
resources that increase their...
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Award Amount: $37,859
Institution: University of New Hampshire
Project Director: Seth Wilner (seth.wilner@unh.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Northeast ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
This project worked to address the risks farmers face through...
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Award Amount: $37,073
Institution: Regents of the University of Idaho
Project Director: Hernan Tejeda (htejeda@uidaho.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
This
project addressed risk management education topics covering production risk,
marketing risk,...
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Award Amount: $37,906
Institution: Univ. of Ark. System CES
Project Director: James Robbins (jrobbins@uaex.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Southern ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
This project involved the development and implementation of risk-based trainings...
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Award Amount: $50,000
Institution: AAMU Small Farms Research Center
Project Director: Duncan M Chembezi (duncan.chembezi@aamu.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Southern ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
Alabama A&M University, an 1890 land-grant and historically black university,...
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Award Amount: $48,801
Institution: Oahu Resource Conservation and Dev Council
Project Director: Jean Brokish (jean.brokish@oahurcd.org)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
Oahu RC&D hosted a series of four workshops across Hawaii...
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Award Amount: $48,653
Institution: Adelante Mujeres
Project Director: Alejandro Tecum (atecum@adelantemujeres.org)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
The Sustainable Agriculture Program of
Adelante Mujeres did ensure that Latino...
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Award Amount: $18,726
Institution: Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Project Director: Jim Jansen (jjansen4@unl.edu)
Funding Opportunity: North Central ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
The purpose of this project addressed the
risk management issues related...
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Award Amount: $49,998
Institution: North Carolina State University
Project Director: Matt Poore (matt_poore@ncsu.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Southern ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
The Southeast Women's Cattle Handling program promoted self-confidence for women...
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Award Amount: $23,308
Institution: Texas A&M Agrilife Extension
Project Director: Tiffany Dowell Lashmet (tdowell@tamu.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Southern ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
We continued to build on the success of the Southern...
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Award Amount: $27,899
Institution: University of Hawaii Office of Research Services
Project Director: Alyssa Cho (acho@hawaii.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Western ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
This project addressed the production and economic risks associated
with product...
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Award Amount: $48,922
Institution: Mississippi State University
Project Director: Courtney Crist (cac400@msstate.edu)
Funding Opportunity: Southern ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
This multidisciplinary project addressed food safety
and business development for Mississippi...
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Award Amount: $50,000
Institution: Iowa State University
Project Director: Madeline Schultz (schultz@iastate.edu)
Funding Opportunity: North Central ERME - 2017 Education Projects
Summary
This project provided an opportunity for the
Iowa State University Extension...
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