Register Now for 6/12 webinar: Innovative Approaches to Food Safety and Options for Crop Insurance

[Aleta Dunne]

Hello Learning Community Members,

Please follow the link in the email below to register for our next webinar on Tuesday, 6/12.  Once you register, instructions on how to join will be emailed to you.

Until then, 

Aleta Dunne

Program Media Coordinator

Community Food Security Coalition

www.foodsecurity.org

3830 SE Division, Portland OR 97202

(503) 954-2970 x200

Innovative Approaches to Food Safety and Options for Crop Insurance Join us for a Webinar on June 12 For the third Learning Community webinar, CFSC has invited three speakers to present tools and approaches for small and limited resource farmers to address food safety requirements and evaluate options for crop insurance. Mary Staak is a Risk Management Specialist with the United States Department of Agriculture’s Risk Management Agency (RMA).  In this webinar, Mary will help you navigate RMA’s website and acquaint you with links that may be of special interest to small farmers, organic producers, and limited resource farmers. In addition, Mary will demonstrate how to access crop fact sheets, crop insurance policies, and crop specific insurance information via the Actuarial Information Browser. Jeff Schahczenski is an Agricultural Economist with the National Center for Appropriate Technology. In this webinar, Jeff will discuss what options are available for crop insurance for smaller diversified producers.  He will focus on the Adjusted Gross Revenue Lite (AGR-lite), a unique whole farm revenue federally subsidized insurance product. He will also introduce a tool called the AGR-Lite Wizard that NCAT developed with RMA, which can assist farmers in evaluating whether AGR-Lite insurance will assist them with crop and livestock loss protection. Cheryl Wixson, P.E. is an Organic Marketing Consultant and Food Safety Specialist for the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA).  In this webinar, Cheryl will present MOFGA's educational approach to farm food safety for small, diversified farms and limited resource producers.  The Basics of Farm Food Safety uses the components of the National Organic Program and the organic farm plan to provide producers with a quide to develop farm food safety plans that have farm to fork traceability, a vital and necessary component for markets like hospitals, institutions and food processors that require a food safety protocol. This webinar is funded by the USDA Risk Management Agency. Title: Innovative Approaches to Food Safety and Options for Crop Insurance Date: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 Time: 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM EDT After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar. System Requirements PC-based attendees Required: Windows® 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server Macintosh®-based attendees Required: Mac OS® X 10.5 or newer RSVP is required. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/232437145

[Kristen Markley]

Hello Learning Community Members,

If you have not yet registered, please follow the link in the announcement below to register for the RMA webinar tomorrow, Tuesday, 6/12.  

Once you register, instructions on how to join will be emailed to you.

Thank you,

Kristen

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Kristen Markley
Community Food Security Coalition
105 Bucher Hill Rd Suite #1
Boiling Springs, PA 17007
717-240-1361
kri...@foodsecurity.org
www.foodsecurity.org

Our mission is to catalyze food systems that are healthy, sustainable, just, and democratic by building community voice and capacity for change.