Project Overview
Project offered advanced risk-management education for beginning/mid-level women-in-agriculture across WV. One hundred and thirty-six participants attending 7 short-courses (6 face-to-face sites, each with 6 modules - 18 contact hours; 1 online) delivered over 6 weeks, evaluated several risk-management strategies and adopted at least two new initiatives, ranging from farm and family financial management, marketing and business planning, farm and food safety planning, networking and partnership opportunities, and estate and succession planning and communication. This helped strengthen participants’ farm profitability and long-term viability; improved inter-generational connections and communications; and fostered long-term partnerships among agribusinesses and agriculture service providers, producing learning and networking multiplier effects beyond the life of the grant. Varied pedagogical methods were integrated to tailor program to targeted audience, including hands-on/interactive face-to-face and on-line curriculum, mentoring/coaching clinics and field trips to explore whole-farm decision-making; partnerships with related agencies to streamline educational programs, and networking opportunities to help improve business connections.
Number of Participants: 136
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