Risk management course geared for farm women

This agricultural program geared toward women will be offered by Barb Rohrs and Cheryl Spires, OSU Extension Educators, at Ohio State University Extension, 6879 Evansport Rd., Defiance. It will begin on Tuesday, Feb. 2 and continue through Thursday, Feb. 18.

The workshops will be held each Tuesday and Thursday for three weeks. Registration is required. Cost of the program is $50 per person if received by Jan. 25. Late registration is $65. Class size is limited. Participants should contact Ohio State University Extension, (419) 782-4771 for more information.

Farm women will receive training for managing information in the areas of: Financial Records, Production Records, Marketing Plans and Risk Management, Legal/Regulation Records and Documentation and Human Resources. Communication skills will also be a major educational focus.

Annie's Project is designed to empower farm women to manage information systems used in critical decision, making processes and to build local networks throughout the state.

The target audience is farm women with a passion for business and involvement. They may be the primary operator or a partner in the business. They may work away from the farm or on the farm.

Annie was a woman who grew up in a small farm community with a goal to marry a farmer and she did. Annie spent her lifetime learning how to be an involved business partner with her farm husband. Together they did great things, but it wasn't easy.

This is Annie's project - to take her life's experiences and share it with farm women living and working in a complex, dynamic, evolving business environment of agriculture.