Educational Tools
2018 Montana’s Next Generation Conference
January 26 and 27, 2018, in Shelby, MT
Registration: http://msuextension.org/glacier/
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Friday, January 26 at the Shelby Civic Center
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Elaine Froese, family farm coach and farmer from Manitoba will discuss, Your Farm, Your Family, Your Choice,” a talk designed for farmers and ranchers of all generations. Froese will speak about how to keep communication lines open in day-to-day family-business operations, manage a successful multigenerational operation and share what has worked on individual family farms. I saw her at Grain Growers in 2014 and thought she was excellent and in looking through a couple of her books ‘Do the Tough Things Right’ and ‘ Farming’s In-Law Factor,’ it’s clear she has some great material that covers everything from finances (family living expenses, what does your lifestyle cost, etc.) to family fight dynamics to fairness, farm estate issues, etc. Check out her website at http://elainefroese.com/.
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Amanda Radke, South Dakota rancher, blogger, contributor to the BEEF magazine, children’s book author (Levi’s Lost Calf book), will keynote the evening session and share how her family operation has made way for her and her husband to come back to the ranch. Check her out athttp://www.beefmagazine.com/blogger/amanda-radke.
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Saturday, January 27 at the Shelby High School
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36 workshops covering beginning and advanced crops and livestock production topics, financial topics, estate planning, etc. We have numerous new speakers and new topics this year (Korey Fauque’s Technology in Agriculture talk should be fascinating, Aimee Roberts and Sarah Wheeler from Farm Credit are sharing producer benchmarks across MT, Scott Shearer from DC will talk on Trade, there’s Estate Planning for Native Americans, AI talks, Beef Cattle Nutrition, etc. The complete schedule is attached, and you can check out speaker bio’s and workshop descriptions on our Facebook page.
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There are 5 workshops with pesticide points, on both crops and grazing topics.
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