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One Day Conferences -- 2008

The winter 2008 one-day conferences have been completed. They were held January - March in various locations throughout the state. Conference locations included: Sparta, Baraboo, Wisconsin Dells, Eau Claire, Oshkosh, and Berlin. Conference evaluation summaries will be available soon.

One-day conferences planned for Fall 2008 and winter of 2008-09 will be announced this summer.

Annie's Project -- 2008
Helping Wisconsin women become effective business partners on the farm.

Overview: Wisconsin farm women can look forward to special classes devoted to helping them manage information management systems for their farm. The undertaking is called Annie’s Project and is made possible by a grant from the North Central Region Risk Management Education Center (NCRRMEC). Annie was a woman who grew up in a small town in Northern Illinois. Her goal was to marry a farmer and she did. Annie spent her lifetime learning how to be an involved business partner with her farm husband. Together they did great things but it wasn’t easy. This is Annie’s project—to take her life’s experience and share it with farm women living and working in a complex business.

Purpose: Annie’s Project is designed to empower farm women to manage information systems used in critical decision making processes and to build local support networks, throughout the state. The target audience is farmwomen with a passion for agri-business and/or involvement in an agri-business they married into, were a part of all their life, or just plain wanted to start on their own.

Agenda: Farmwomen will receive training for managing information in areas of Financial Records, Production Records, Marketing Plans and Risk Management, Legal/Regulation Records and Documentation, and Human Resources and Time Management.

Workshops -- 2008

Annie's Project - Fennimore, Soutwest Wisconsin Technical Collge, Saturday's April 5, 19, May 3 & 17, 2008. 9:00 a.m. - noon

For a brochure of the Fennimore workshop series, click here PDF icon (105 KB)

For more information on Annie's Project see: http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Annie

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