Success StoryAg Council Meeting Planning
Ag Council Meeting Planning
Author: Matthew Chadwick
Planning Unit: Calloway County CES
Major Program: Community Vitality and Leadership - ANR
Plan of Work: 2022 Agriculture Literacy and Social Sustainability
Outcome: Intermediate Outcome
The problem
Need for the Development of a keystone program.
Program impact or participant response.
The Ag Council determined the need for a County specific program addressing the concerns associated with the long term sustainability of the family farm. The parameters of the meeting established at the Ag Council meeting were as follows:
- Focus on problems facing all family farms
- Not commodity specific
-Estate planning
-Community Focused and interesting
A working group was formed with members from the Ag Council and they developed a program called the "Family Farm Summit". The group established a date, sponsors, speakers from a wide variety of sources, and has begun advertising.
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