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EVENTS

Click to view the full 2018 USDA-RMA Program Calendar

 

April 25th - One-on-One Advising Session, 9:00am-3:30pm, New London County Extension Center, Norwich, CT. Contact:mackenzie.white@uconn.edu or 860-875-3331

 

May 3rd - CT Farm Bureau Workshop, "Money Grows on Trees: Managing Your Woodland for Profit & Conservation", 7-9pm, Middlesex County Extension Center, Haddam, CT. Contact: Nancy Barrett nancy.barrett@uconn.edu


May 9th - CT Farm Bureau Workshop, "GOT LAND? NEED LAND?", 7-9pm, Scout Hall, East Windsor, CT. Contact: Nancy Barrett nancy.barrett@uconn.edu

 

July 25th - CNLA Summer Field Day, 8:30am- 3:00pm, CT Agricultural Experiment Station Lockwood Farms, Hamden, CT Contact: joseph.bonelli@uconn.edu

 

Sept. 27th - CT Farm Bureau Workshop "Agritourism for Land Use", 7-9pm, Woodstock Town Hall, Woodstock, CT. Contact: Nancy Barrett nancy.barrett@uconn.edu

 

Other Farmer Workshops and Trainings:

Solid Ground Farmer Trainings

Building a Farm Risk Management Plan

Developing a set of business goals and a strategy to attain those goals is the first step in any farm risk management plan. Sound risk management means reducing the impact of risk and considering all options available to you. The sites listed below will help you review the risks you face and options available to you to manage those risks.

Fact Sheets

Links

These sites provide general information on farm risk management. Each site opens the door to an array of related topics.

  • Purdue Extension - This site provides an excellent list of publications including, but not limited to, such topics as making a business better or bigger, value added agriculture and business tools.
  • Risk and Risk Management - These fact sheets define risk management.
  • Ag Risk Education Library - Excellent site that provides many useful publications on a variety of management topics. Click on Ag Risk Library.
  • New England Small Farm Institute - An excellent site that provides course and workshop information as well as important articles on the subject. (.pdf)
  • Four Roads to the Future of Agriculture - Information presented describes the skills, resources and strategies farmers will need to make their way in the future. (.pdf)

These sites provide specific information on farm risk management. Please refer to the brief web site description for details.

  

The Farm Risk Management and Crop Insurance website has been developed as part of a Targeted States Crop Insurance Education/Information Partnership conducted by the University of Connecticut Cooperative Extension System in collaboration with the Risk Management Agency, U.S. Department of Agriculture.

 

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