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Illinois ♦ Indiana ♦
Iowa ♦ Kansas ♦ Michigan ♦ Minnesota ♦Missouri
♦ Nebraska ♦ North Dakota ♦ Ohio ♦ South Dakota ♦ Wisconsin |
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“Empowering the strengths and skills of individuals in the North
Central
Region involved in the management of agricultural,
production, marketing,
financial, legal, and human resource risks." |
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www.farmdoc.uiuc.edu/ncrisk |
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Goals:
1. Provide risk management
education leadership and coordination for the North Central Region.
- Interact with state contacts
to identify the risk management education needs within the region.
- Review previous work done
on identifying needs and priorities, and use other relevant mechanisms to identify
risk management education needs.
- Collect input and feedback
to determine emerging issues and areas of need for educational programs consistent
with the changing structure of agriculture
2. Establish
priorities for risk management education programs and conduct a competitive grants
program to respond to these priorities. These priorities will recognize:
- Producers with limited
prior exposure to risk management education.
- Small scale and minority
producers.
- Women involved in agricultural
production and management.
- Successful, ongoing programs
and the need to maintain the educational momentum of these programs.
3. Enhance
collaboration and partnering within the region.
- Encourage collaborative
projects that are multi-state and/or multi-agency.
- Work with the national
steering committee and national risk management coordinating committee to establish
and maintain contact with all organizations and agencies in the region that provide
risk management services, products or tools.
4. Disseminate information
regarding risk management activities in the region.
- Prepare news releases
and other appropriate documents to inform producers of the educational opportunities
and materials available.
- Prepare releases for general
public readership of the advances being made in risk management education.
- Prepare reports for policy
makers and others interested in the developments in risk management education
and the impacts of programs.
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