Utilizing survey information from the Ag Advisory Council I am working to pair each of our typical winter meetings with a non-traditional educational session. Our first session was a grain marketing update and we brought in a fellow farmer and extension agent to talk about helping fellow farmer through crisis situations and how to encourage positive conversations during those times. The next topic will be on how to properly mentor young/new farmers to assist them with staying in the business and why that is important for all of us, that topic is paired with our Agronomic Hemp meeting.

By utilizing fellow farmers we can address some difficult topics in hopes that some of our rural community members will have the tools to help others in times of need.