The overall goal of Growing Beginning Farmers and Ranchers in Wyoming is to provide education, mentoring, and technical assistance to offer beginning farmers and ranchers the knowledge, skills, and tools needed to make informed decisions for their operations, and enhance their sustainability. The project looks to ensure Wyoming beginning producers are well-informed of risk management alternatives allowing them to take full advantage of existing insurance products and other risk controls by offering training and resources covering various financial management, risk management, enterprise assessment, and risk analysis topics.
 
     The project’s multidimensional approach will make available training and resources under four broad objectives. The project will provide educational opportunities directly to beginning farmers and ranchers through regionally-offered on-site programming and on-line resources; provide on-site and on-line educational programs to Wyoming’s new, beginning, and limited resource farmers and ranchers via FFA classrooms and other venues; coordinate and provide hands-on internships on working farms and ranches to Wyoming’s beginning farmers and ranchers
 
each summer in cooperation with state producer organizations and educational institutions; and develop and circulate media-based education on various financial management, risk management, enterprise assessment, and risk analysis topics statewide via articles in agriculture-focused newspapers and producer-organization newsletter.

 

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SPONSORS

Program sponsors include:

USDA-Beginning Farmer & Rancher Program (BFRDP)
University of Wyoming Ag & Applied Economics
University of Wyoming Extension
University of Wyoming College of Agriculture, Life Sciences and Natural Resources
Wyoming Farm Bureau Federation
Wyoming Stock Grower’s Association
Wyoming Crop Improvement Association
Wyoming Wool Grower’s Association
Wyoming Wool Grower’s Association
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