Information Sharing for Beginning Farmers and Ranchers
USDA and AFBF are partnering to help those pursuing career in agriculture.
Compiled by staff
Published: Nov 6, 2009
The National Curriculum and Training Clearinghouse for Beginning Farmers and Ranchers is the result of a partnership between USDA's National Agricultural Library and the American Farm Bureau Federation. It is designed to help those who have decided to pursue a career in agriculture with information-sharing.
"This is a great opportunity for Farm Bureau to provide information to beginning farmers on how to start and stay in farming and ranching," said AFBF President Bob Stallman. "We are providing in-kind support to the National Ag Library with outreach, publicity, educational seminars and our annual conference where other project grants will be highlighted."
Using a $1.5 million grant from USDA, the clearinghouse will develop a Web site and databases to serve beginning farmers and ranchers, with particular focus on those categorized as underserved. The clearinghouse will provide education, training, outreach and mentoring materials to beginning farmers and ranchers across the United States. AFBF will serve as a conduit for distribution of the information.
"Our goal at Farm Bureau is to help farmers be successful and to move agriculture forward," said Dan Durheim, coordinator of AFBF’s Young Farmers & Ranchers program. "The projects included in the clearinghouse are fascinating and diverse: an agricultural entrepreneurial program in Missouri, legal and technical support for beginning and immigrant farmers in Minnesota, effective business practices to Navajo farmers in Arizona, business planning and sustainable practices for women in the Northeast, and absentee forest landowner training in Tennessee."
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