Extension educator Dallas Mount
Grants totaling more than $671,000 will expand a Wyoming ranch management skills development program into Nebraska and Colorado.
Four ranch practicums will be offered per year: two in Wyoming, one in Nebraska and one in Colorado, said Dallas Mount, University of Wyoming Cooperative Extension Service educator based in Platte County and grant recipient.
Registration for the Northern Rockies Ranch Practicum in Powell has been extended to Friday, Aug. 19, said the program’s coordinator. Continue reading
A workshop on understanding farming and ranching with arthritis is Friday, March 5, in Torrington.
“More than 80 percent of producers experience some form of arthritis,” said Randy Weigel, human development specialist with the University of Wyoming Cooperative Extension Service (UW CES) and project director for Wyoming AgrAbility (www.uwyo.edu/agrability/). Continue reading
A $500,000, four-year research project by the University of Wyoming will investigate the economic and environmental sustainability of three production approaches in cash crop and beef calf production. Continue reading
AgrAbility.
Interesting word – great meaning. Take “agriculture” and mesh it with “ability.” A disability in agriculture now doesn’t have to mean the end of a way of life.
AgrAbility provides education, networking, and assistance to ranchers, farmers, agricultural workers, and their families with disabilities engaged in production agriculture and who want to continue ranching and/or farming. Continue reading