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Farm News: Last Call For Beginning Farmer SchoolcommentsPosted: 10.26.2011
November 1 is the deadline to sign up to attend the Wisconsin School for Beginning Dairy and Livestock Farmers (WSBDF) at one of its distance education classrooms. The school hopes to offer its distance education program at 17 sites around the state this year, but at least three students must sign up for a site for the program to be offered there.
The distance classrooms are designed for students who aren’t able to attend class in Madison. Each classroom will have video and audio links to the school’s weekly seminar in Madison, but will also have an on-site instructor and feature guest lectures by local grazing specialists, farm lenders and experienced farmers. Students also tour
local farms and have opportunities to participate in internships and industry conferences.
The WSBDF curriculum covers all aspects of business planning, from farm selection, design and remodeling to animal and pasture management. WSBDF qualifies for the business training required by the Farm Services Agency’s (FSA) beginning farmer loan programs.
The school is offered through the UW-Madison Farm and Industry Short Course.
The 15-week course begins November 10 and meets every Thursday from 11 a.m.-1:15 p.m. through March 22 (the class meets Tuesday,
November 22 during Thanksgiving week and takes a four-week break in
late December and January).
Those interested should contact the facilitator at the appropriate site:
Antigo: Alex Crockford, UW-Extension, Langlade County, 715-627-6236, alex.crockford@ces.uwex.edu
Appleton: Randy Tenpas, Fox Valley Technical College, 920-735-5673, tenpas@fvtc.edu
Chilton: Jeremy Hanson, Fox Valley Technical College @ Chilton
Regional Center, 920- 849-4416; hanson@fvtc.edu or Greg Booher,
Lakeshore Technical College, 920-693-1241; greg.booher@gotoltc.edu
Independence: Mary Anderson, River Country RC&D, 715-538-4396 ext 33; maryc@rivercountryrcd.org
Lancaster: Arin Crooks, Agricultural Research Station, 608-723-2580; aecrooks@wisc.edu
Ladysmith: Rich Toebe, UW-Extension, Rusk County, 715-532-2151, richard.toebe@ces.uwex.edu
Neillsville: Maria Bendixen, UW-Extension, Clark County, 715-743-5121; maria.bendixen@ces.uwex.edu
Medford: Sandy Stuttgen, UW-Extension, Taylor County, 715-748-3327; sandy.stuttgen@ces.uwex.edu
Menomonie: Mark Denk, Chippewa Valley Technical College, 715-577-3036; mdenk1@cvtc.edu
Phillips: Mark Kopecky, UW-Extension Price County, 715-339-2555;
Prairie du Chien: Vance Haugen, UW Extension, Crawford County,
608-326-0223; vance.haugen@ces.uwex.edu
Reedsburg: Doug Marshall, MATC-Reedsburg, 608-524-7727; dmarshall@matcmadison.edu
Spooner: Otto Wiegand, UW-Extension, Washburn, Sawyer & Burnett
Counties, 715-635-3506, otto.wiegand@ces.uwex.edu
Thorp: Brad Sirianni, Chippewa Valley Technical College, 715-579-5834;
Viroqua: Jean Stramel, Grazing Specialist, 608-647-8874 ext110;
Waupaca: Lynn Jerrett, Fox Valley Technical College, 920-831-4387; jerrett@fvtc.edu
Wausau: Victoria Pietz, Northcentral Technical College, 715-803-1414; pietz@ntc.edu
To get application materials to attend the WSBDF on the Madison
campus, or to get more information about any aspect of the program, go
online to www.cias.wisc.edu/dairysch.html or call 608-265-6437.
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