Progress 09/01/23 to 08/31/24
Outputs
Target Audience:Our competitive grants program and outreach activities focused on delivering risk management education results to producers through public and private educators by funding outreach activities that educate farmers. Our mission is to empower producers to manage risk on their farms. SRMEC also engaged in directed efforts in enterprise budget development, financial analysis and business planning and local foods systems throughout the region with targeted engagement with regional educators and industry partners across the south. SRMEC seeks to enhance the risk management understanding and strategies of growers across the entire production landscape. The group includes small and beginning farmers, commodity growers, specialty crop farmers, direct marketing and value added agricultural businesses as well as industry stakeholders. The Center managed two grant pools: traditional risk management projects across the full range of tools/strategies including crop insurance; and pool targeting producers underserved by federal crop insurance. The authorizing language for our program places special emphasis on farm viabilityand risk management strategies (including farm financial benchmarking, business planning and technical assistance, market assessment, transfer and succession planning, and crop insurance participation), education, and outreach specifically targeted at: Beginning farmers or ranchers; Legal immigrant farmers or ranchers that are attempting to become established producers in the United States; Socially disadvantaged farmers or ranchers; Farmers or ranchers that-- a) are preparing to retire; b) are using transition strategies to help new farmers or ranchers get started; c) are converting production and marketing systems to pursue new markets; Producers that are underserved by the Federal Crop Insurance program as determined by the Corporation (the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation); Veteran farmers or ranchers. The targeted engagements seek to build capacity to understand risk issues and to effectively raise awareness and use of available resources. Additionally, SRMEC directed efforts at the region's land-grant Extension faculty to enhance financial risk evaluation and awareness of innovations in risk management outreach. Targeted engagements sought to enhance engagement of land-grant agricultural economist with Socially Disadvantaged Farmers & Ranchers and the organizations that serve these diverse producers. Competitively funded projects targeted the following producer groups: Audience Number of 2023 projects Small farms or ranches 7 Beginning producers 5 Socially disadvantaged producers 5 Women producers 1 Sustainable producers 1 Limited resource producers 3 Traditional commercial producers 7 Specialty crop producers 3 Organic producers 1 Veterans 2 Producers converting production and marketing systems to pursue new markets 2 Value-added producers 1 Retiring/transitioning producers 2 Immigrant producers 1 Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?SRMEC has presented staffed displays at numerous regional conferences to promote our Center's resources and the outreach programs that are being delivered. Conferences/workshops include: Natinal Agricultural Marketing Summit / Food Distribution Research Society (DC) * Southern Region Risk Management Conference (FL) * Southern Extension Farm Management Committee (FL) * Professional Agricultural Workers Conference (AL) National Black Growers Council (TN) * SRMEC presented as part of the conference How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?SRMEC provides grant recipients guidance each year to formulate appropriate criteria for critical evaluation of their project activities. Prior to funding approval, applicants must identify specific measures on project impacts/outcomes detailing what participants will accomplish. Project foci addressed 43different risk management topics. SRMEC continues collaboration with the Southern Extension Economics committee to provide resources to assist farmers and ranchers with evaluating agriculture's risk environment. The following bullets highlight SRMEC's collaborations with committee: Supporting the on-going daily news analysis, Southern Agriculture Today (SAT). To date SAT has 146contributors supporting the development of a daily posting of analysis and insights of markets, policies and trends impacting southern agriculture. SAT is released each day throughout the week and currently has a following of over 5,143individuals/organizations subscribing. The effort producing daily articles focused on agriculture across the Southern region has a 50% open rate with a reach of 97% delivered to desktops and 3% to mobile devices. Social media followers include Facebook (233), X (462) and LinkedIn (241). Website data details 10,602 total views and 5,447 total users. Sponsor for the 2023Southern Outlook Conference Oct. 2-3, 2023. https://southernoutlook.caes.uga.edu/ 2023SRMEC Outstanding ERME Project Winner, Justin Benevidez, Tiffany Lashmet and Casey Matzke(Texas A&M AgriLife Extension). Selected, presented and honored at the 2024ERME National Conference held in Salt Lake City, UT. Where's the Beef? Economic and Legal Considerations for Direct Beef Sales Conferences AgRisk Library Selection of 2023SRMEC Projects of Excellence: Justin Benevidez (Texas A&M AgriLife Extension) - Where's the Beef? Economic and Legal Considerations for Direct Beef Sales; William Crutchfield (Virginia State University) - Risk Management Education for Socially Disadjantaged, Veteran, and Beginning Farmers and Ranchers in Virginia; Charlie Jackson (Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project) - Farmer Risk Management Rebound from COVID-19. Number of website visits for 2023-24 projects includes 34,401 educational projects; 6,828 visits to producers underserved by Federal Crop Insurance. SRMEC maintains a Center website that highlights the Center/ERME programs and resources. The website promotes regional collaborations and partnerships that focus on risk management education outreach. The website also seeks input and stakeholder feedback. Communication with key stakeholders and clientele is accomplished through the use of the SRMEC listserv which is currently over 300 subscribers. Communications are periodically sent out to the listserv highlighting competitive grant program updates, notices of upcoming programs/trainings, as well as updates on the Center's website. SRMEC also maintains a collection of social media sites: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. Current strategy is to grow our Facebook and LinkdedIn engagement. Facebook has 731 reach with 91 post interactions for September. LinkedIn reach included 2,244 impressions with1,177 members reached. As part of the Extension Risk Management Education program, all of our concluded projects have final project reports uploaded to the Extension RME website. Final reports are published on the Extension Risk Mangement Eduation program's national portal (extensionrme.org). Twenty (20) publisehd reports are available for programs successfully delivered acrossthe Southern region.This website allows users to query funded projects by risk management area, issue addressed and area the program was delivered. SRMEC's website features results from recently completed projects and resources developed from our funded projects along with links to ERME program partners. SRMEC provides presentations and staffed booths at grower, industry and stakeholder meetings throughout the year. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?
Nothing Reported
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
SRMEC's primary purpose is to continue the successful management of the Extension Risk Management Education (ERME) competitive grants programs--risk management education and producers underserved by crop insurance--and outreach activities. The targeted SRMEC engagements seek to build capacity for farmers and ranchers to better understand risk issues and to effectively use risk management resources. Each funded project includes a detailed plan of work addressing program promotion, delivery and evaluation. Each project will report programmatic outcomes and impacts along with using a retrospective evaluation framework to document change in knowledge of project participants. Our 2023-24 Cohort of Funded projects across all grant pools included: 1) Ten (10) projects awarded $465,342 traditional risk management projects, 2) Four (4) projects awarded $398,584 targeting producers underserved by federal crop insurance. These projects addressed the following risk management areas: Risk Areas Number of 2023 projects 2023 Project Outcomes 2023 Project Participants Financial 5 14 950* Production 6 21 1,223 Marketing 7 19 4,561 Legal 3 6 273* Human 4 17 701 * Some project reports are exclued (149,362, 520,123, and 342,050 participants) because of delivery methods that included TV and web-based. SRMEC also closed out our 2022 cohort of twenty-four (24) funded projects. The final reports of the projects are available on the extensionrme.org national portal under the "completed projects" category. Collectively, these projects were awarded $1,386,940 in funds to deliver outreach and training. The projects reached 13,076 participants (5,955 risk management/7,121 producters underserved by federal crop insurance. These projects also recorded 12,395 project website visitors (7,946 risk management/4,449 producers underserved by federal crop insurance). Project outcomes achieved by 2022 projects in each of the risk areas: Risk Area Number of Projects Number of Project Outcomes Financial 11 60 Production 10 55 Marketing 9 64 Legal 8 51 Human 6 33
Publications
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Progress 09/01/22 to 08/31/23
Outputs
Target Audience:Our competitive grants program and outreach activities focused on delivering risk management education results to producers through public and private educators by funding outreach activities that educate farmers. Our mission is to empower producers to manage risk on their farms. SRMEC also engaged in directed efforts in enterprise budget development, financial analysis and business planning and local foods systems throughout the region with targeted engagement with regional educators and industry partners across the south. SRMEC seeks to enhance the risk management understanding and strategies of growers across the entire production landscape. The group includes small and beginning farmers, commodity growers, specialty crop farmers, direct marketing and value added agricultural businesses as well as industry stakeholders. The Center managed two grant pools: traditional risk management projects across the full range of tools/strategies including crop insurance; and pool targeting producers underserved by federal crop insurance. The authorizing language for our program places special emphasis on farm viability and risk management strategies (including farm financial benchmarking, business planning and technical assistance, market assessment, transfer and succession planning, and crop insurance participation), education, and outreach specifically targeted at: Beginning farmers or ranchers; Legal immigrant farmers or ranchers that are attempting to become established producers in the United States; Socially disadvantaged farmers or ranchers; Farmers or ranchers that-- a) are preparing to retire; b) are using transition strategies to help new farmers or ranchers get started; c) are converting production and marketing systems to pursue new markets; Producers that are underserved by the Federal Crop Insurance program as determined by the Corporation (the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation); Veteran farmers or ranchers The targeted engagements seek to build capacity to understand risk issues and to effectively raise awareness and use of available resources. Additionally, SRMEC directed efforts at the region's land-grant Extension faculty to enhance financial risk evaluation and awareness of innovations in risk management outreach. Targeted engagements sought to enhance engagement of land-grant agricultural economist with Socially Disadvantaged Farmers & Ranchers and the organizations that serve these diverse producers. Changes/Problems:We have experienced a lower than usual submissions to our grant pools over the last two funding cycles. We have also seen a number of our traditional partners take a step back from our SRMEC programs as they pursue other federal funding opportunities. While we suspect that this lull in applications is temporary, the Center recognizes that the need for foundational risk management outreach and technical assistance continues. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?To date, 2020-21 completed projects have reported 8,829 individual producer actions: 155,689 analzed some risk mitigating strategy for their business 3,300 decided to change some aspect of their business operation 3,930 developed a strategy or tool to manage risk on their farm 1,663 implemented a risk mitigating plan/strategy for their operation 90,647reported understanding some riak management aspect(s) across their operation and/or sector These producer actions were reported as a result of multiple risk management topics being presented by the funded projects. Funded projects reported the following topic presentations across our five risk areas: Production - 21 Marketing - 27 Legal - 10 Human - 5 Financial - 31 These completed projects targeted the following producer groups across their collection of activities: Small farmer - 11 Beginning farmer - 10 Retiring, Transitioning and Estate Planning - 1 Socially Disadvantaged, Immigrant, and Limited Resource - 16 Organic, Specialty & Sustainable Agriculture - 7 Value-added and New Products/Markets - 3 Women - 2 Veteran - 5 Traditional Commercial - 10 Additionally, SRMEC collaborated with the other ERME centers to offer capacity building and/or training on value-added agriculture (Marketing) by hosting concurrent sessions at the 2022 National Agricultural Marketing Summit, dairy, and whole farm revenue insurance product. Presentations included: Growing a Local Coffee Brand from Scratch. How to Market in a Digital Era How New Jersey Farmers Managed Supply Chain Disruptions, Labor Shortages, and Other Marketing Risks during the Pandemic and Post-Pandemic Marketing for Farmers, Ranchers, and Makers Strengthening Regional Crop Distribution and Processing How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest? SRMEC provides grant recipients guidance each year to formulate appropriate criteria for critical evaluation of their project activities. Prior to funding approval, applicants must identify specific measures on project impacts/outcomes detailing what participants will accomplish. Project foci addressed 94 different risk management topics. Most frequently delivered topics were financial reoords & analysis, business & strategic planning, marketing plans & strategies. SRMEC continues collaboration with the Southern Extension Economics committee to provide resources to assist farmers and ranchers with evaluating agriculture's risk environment. The following bullets highlight SRMEC's collaborations with committee: Supporting the on-going daily news analysis, Southern Agriculture Today (SAT). To date SAT has 142 contributors supporting the development of a daily posting of analysis and insights of markets, policies and trends impacting southern agriculture. SAT is released each day throughout the week and currently has a following of over 1250 individuals/organizations. The effort has produced over 500 articles to date. Sponsor for the 2022 Southern Outlook Conference Sept. 21-23, 2022. The conference website includes links to 25 outlook presentations delivered in 2022, as well as links to previous conference presentations. https://southernoutlook.caes.uga.edu/ 2022 SRMEC Outstanding ERME Project Winner, Angie Martin, Texas Corn Producers Association: Who's Going to Fill My Shoes: Planning from the Beginning to the End for Succession in a Farming Operation Education Project? Selected an honored at the 2023 ERME National Conference held in Chicago, IL. Center activities are highlighted on the SRMEC website (srmec.uada.edu) with details on Center conference engagements and presentations. Selection of 2022 SRMEC Projects of Excellence from our 2021 funded cohort: Megan Leflew (University of Tennessee Extension, John Bovay, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and Angie Martin, Texas Corn Producers Association. These projects were featured during an organized symposium at the 2023 Southern Agricultural Economics Association Annual meeting held in Oklahoma City, OK. SRMEC continues to partner with NCIS to enhance understanding of crop insurance and risk management resources. We held a Southern Risk Management Outreach Conference where we included presentations on crop insurance, heirs' property, tax/financial record keeping, and financial stress resources. SRMEC maintains a Center website that highlights the Center/ERME programs and resources. The website promotes regional collaborations and partnerships that focus on risk management education outreach. The website also seeks input and stakeholder feedback. Communication with key stakeholders and clientele is accomplished through the use of the SRMEC listserv which is currently over 300 subscribers. Communications are periodically sent out to the listserv highlighting competitive grant program updates, notices of upcoming programs/trainings, as well as updates on the Center's website. SRMEC also maintains a collection of social media sites: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. As part of the Extension Risk Management Education program, all of our concluded projects have final project reports uploaded to the Extension RME website. Final reports are published on the Extension Risk Mangement Eduation program's national portal (extensionrme.org). Twenty (20) publisehd reports are available for programs successfully delivered across the Southern region.This website allows users to query funded projects by risk management area, issue addressed and area the program was delivered. SRMEC's website features results from recently completed projects and resources developed from our funded projects along with links to ERME program partners. SRMEC provides presentations and staffed booths at grower, industry and stakeholder meetings throughout the year. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?SRMEC will continue to promote and build on its outlined program objectives for the coming year. Our primary goal is to continue promotion and management of our competitive grants program. We continue to manage and communicate through our listserv to maintain consistent communication with our clientele and stakeholders. SRMEC will continue to successfully manage awarded projects to the conclusion of a successfully published final report. Additional efforts will be undertaken to develop and promote success stories from the educational activities. These success stories detail the situation addressed by the project along with a reported impact that resulted from the change in knowledge of the training. SRMEC is continuing on-going discussions to host a crop insurance training in 2023-24. In addition to participating in National Crop Insurance Service training, the Center continues to have discussions with Crop Insurance Professionals Association (CIPA) and Texas A&M's Agriculture and Food Policy Center (https://www.afpc.tamu.edu/) to host up to 8-hours of continuing education training for crop insurance agents. CIPA is a national organization of agents - spanning from Florida to California and from North Dakota to Texas - who are committed to maintaining and strengthening the safety net for the American farmer and rancher. SRMEC also seeks to collaborate with the other ERME Centers to host a national training on crop insurance and enhanced outreach for the dairy sector. Lastly, The Center will promote the National ERME Conference and financially support participants to attend the best practice and showcase of outstanding risk management programming and tools.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
SRMEC's primary purpose is to continue the successful management of the Extension Risk Management Education (ERME) competitive grants programs--risk management education and producers underserved by crop insurance--and outreach activities. The targeted SRMEC engagements seek to build capacity for farmers and ranchers to better understand risk issues and to effectively use risk management resources. Each funded project includes a detailed plan of work addressing program promotion, delivery and evaluation. Each project will report programmatic outcomes and impacts along with using a retrospective evaluation framework to document change in knowledge of project participants. We funded a new cohort of projects for 2023-24 across our grant pools: TRADITIONAL RISK MANAGEMENT EDUCATION PROJECTS (10 PIs awarded $465,342) 1. Opportunitties for Utilization of Existing Farm Infrastructure. University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture. TN 2. Manageing Risk Through Changing Climate and Market Environments in the Southern Appalachians. Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project. NC. 3. The Producer Pathway: Mitigating Risk in Sustainable Agriculture Communities with Outreach, Training, and Support. Appalachian Sustainable Development. VA. 4. Managing Production, Financial and Legal Risks Associated with Herbicide Drift on Small-Scale Vegetable Farms. Louisiana State University Agriculture Center. LA. 5. Widening the Supply Chain Bottleneck for New and Transitioning Local Meat Producers: Developing Targeted Tools, Resources, and Training to Mitigate Processing Risks and Expand Market Opportunities. North Carolina State University. NC. 6. Labor Considerations for Tennessee Farmers, Strategies for Securing and Managing Agricultural Labor. GAP Connections, Inc. TN 7. Commercial Poultry Financial Management Tool (Broiler Education). Auburn University. AL 8. Where's the Beef? Video Series. Texas A&M AgriLife Extension. TX. 9. Education for Socially Disadvantaged Hispanic Spanich Speaking Green Industry Professionals. Texas Nursery & Landscape Association, Inc. TX. 10. Risk Management Education for Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers. Virginia State University. VA. Producers Underserved by Crop Insurance (4 PIs Awarded $398,574) 1. Reducing Risks: Reaching Historically Underserved Women Producers in the U.S. Southeast. American Farmland Trust. Washington D.C. 2. Agricultural Risk Management in a Consumer Label Driven Market. Texas A&M AgriLife Extension. TX. 3. Training Underserved Arkansas and Mississippi Crop Farmers to Understand and Utilize Crop Insurance as a Risk Management Tool. University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture. AR. 4. Coastal & South Georgia Underserved Producers' Grant. The Widget Business Training Company. GA. We have managed and closed out the 2020-21 funded cohorts: TRADITIONAL RISK MANAGEMENT PROJECTS Landowners Association of Texas - RME strategies to mitigate land loss in socially disadvantaged communities in East Texas through transition and estate planning. Texas A&M University - Economic & legal considerations for hemp production in Texas. Auburn University - Development of an on-line forage basics course for livestock and forage producers. University of Tennessee, Center for Profitable Agriculture - Helping Tennessee farmers evaluate and implement enterprises and marketing strategies Texas A&M University - Developing a drought management plan for the ranch. Alabama A&M University - Phase II: Estate and farm succession planning and the next generation of farmers in Alabama. Oklahoma State University - What are the odds: A decision tool to simulate probabilities of success for farm transition tools. Virginia Tech University - Managing risk associated with the use of automatic milking and feeding systems (robots) in dairy farms of the southern region. Texas Corn Producers Association - Who's going to fill my shoes: Planning from the beginning to the end for succession in a farming operation? Oklahoma State University - Teaching Livestock and horticulture production & financial risk management to new and beginning Oklahoma Veteran farmers. University of Arkansas - Boosting rural economies through food innovation startup with mentored entrepreneurial support. Mississippi State University - Managing production and financial risk in forage production in Mississippi. North-South Institute - Expanding Extension risk management education using insurance and non-insurance based tools for small farmers in ranchers in selected counties in Florida. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University - Virginia sustainable farms and agribusiness education initiative. National Center for Appropriate Technology - Strategic investment in limited-resource farmers to mitigate and manage risk in Mississippi. PRODUCERS UNDERSERVED BY CROP INSURANCE: University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez - Risk management and emergency preparedness in Puerto Rico. Oklahoma State University - Crop and livestock basics for traditionally underserved producers. Texas A&M University - Preparing agricultural decision makers, 2020-21. Rural South Institute Inc. - F-A-R-M Education: Financial and risk management education for minority populations and limited resource producers underserved by crop insurance. National Crop Insurance Services - Implementing risk management and marketing plans for socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers in Georgia. University of Tennessee - Managing production, financial, marketing risks: Producer evaluation on contract development and crop insurance decision in industrial hemp production. National Center for Appropriate Technology - Building resiliency by protecting specialty crop and livestock farms. Dubois Institute for Entrepreneurship - Alabama Black Belt risk management education program. EXPLORATORY/PLANNING PROJECTS University of Tennessee - First aid/CPR training: Improving farm safety for H2A workers on tobacco farms Middle Tennessee State University - Exploratory study to understand risk management knowledge of producers at farmers markets. Oklahoma State University - Oklahoma statewide women in agriculture conference. Sustainable Agriculture Working Group - Improving delivery of risk education for farmers at the southern SAWG conference. Texas Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association - Hand-on training for nontraditional farmers.
Publications
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Websites
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2021
Citation:
Jamie Cousins, Candice Foster, Bart Fischer, Nathan Smith, Joe Outlaw, Ronald Rainey. Southern Ag Today is a collaborative effort among 13 universities led by the Southern Extension Economics Committee (land-grant extension agricultural economists), the Agricultural and Food Policy Center at Texas A&M, and the Southern Cousins, Jamie, Erica Fields, Celise Weems, and Ronald Rainey. Risk Management Education Center at the University of Arkansas.
https://srmec.uada.edu. Updated.
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Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2023
Citation:
Cousins, Jamie, Erica Fields, Celise Weems, and Ronald Rainey. SRMEC Annual Summary. Southern Risk Management Education Center. July 2023.
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Websites
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2021
Citation:
Cousins, Jamie, Candice Foster, Bart Fischer, Joe Outlaw, Ron Rainey, and Nathan Smith. Agricultural Food & Policy Center and Southern Risk Management Education Center. https://southernagtoday.org. Updated.
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Progress 09/01/21 to 08/31/22
Outputs
Target Audience:Our competitive grants program and outreach activities focused on delivering risk management education results to producers through public and private educators by funding outreach activities that educate farmers. Our mission is to empower producers to manage risk on their farms. SRMEC also engaged in directed efforts in enterprise budget development, financial analysis and business planning and local foods systems throughout the region with targeted engagement with regional educators and industry partners across the south. SRMEC seeks to enhance the risk management understanding and strategies of growers across the entire production landscape. The group includes small and beginning farmers, commodity growers, specialty crop farmers, direct marketing and value added agricultural businesses as well as industry stakeholders. The Center managed two grant pools: traditional risk management projects across the full range of tools/strategies including crop insurance; and pool targeting producers underserved by federal crop insurance. The authorizing language for our program places special emphasis on farm viability and risk management strategies (including farm financial benchmarking, business planning and technical assistance, market assessment, transfer and succession planning, and crop insurance participation), education, and outreach specifically targeted at: Beginning farmers or ranchers; Legal immigrant farmers or ranchers that are attempting to become established producers in the United States; Socially disadvantaged farmers or ranchers; Farmers or ranchers that-- a) are preparing to retire; b) are using transition strategies to help new farmers or ranchers get started; c) are converting production and marketing systems to pursue new markets; Producers that are underserved by the Federal Crop Insurance program as determined by the Corporation (the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation); Veteran farmers or ranchers The targeted engagements seek to build capacity to understand risk issues and to effectively raise awareness and use of available resources. Additionally, SRMEC directed efforts at the region's land-grant Extension faculty to enhance financial risk evaluation and awareness of innovations in risk management outreach. Targeted engagements sought to enhance engagement of land-grant agricultural economist with Socially Disadvantaged Farmers & Ranchers and the organizations that serve these diverse producers. A partnership is on-going with the Socially Disadvantaged Farmer and Rancher Policy Research Center at Alcron State University. Changes/Problems:The on-going pandemic continues to create some lingering challlenges in terms of funded projects being able to deliver all of their proposed components and the capture of complete evaluations from participants. The intenseuse of online deliver during pandemic has created some fatigue among participants and reduced the quality of project evaluation activites as educators have enhanced their use of online delivery means. . What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Traditional Risk Management Education Funded Projects: 2022-23 - 14 Projects Project Name Requested Amount Institution State Addressing Common Pain Points in Risk Management for the Small Independent Virginia Farmer $49,551.35 Local Food Hub VA Mitigating Farm Stresses: A Workshop on Personal Well-Being $47,056.76 AgSafe KY Oklahoma Cattlewomen's Cow/Calf Boot Camp $30,754.00 Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service OK Managing Marketing and Financial Risk in Dairy Farming Systems of the Southern Region $47,895.00 Virginia Tech VA Mitigating Risks in cost sharing machinery and labor in small vineyards in the Southern United States $46,138.00 Texas A&M AgriLife Extension TX Develop and deliver on-farm food safety risk management programs for farmworkers to address food safety liability and meet federal and market-driven food safety requirements $49,931.00 School of Nutrition and Food Sciences LA Risk minimization for beekeepers $40,028.00 Oklahoma State University OK Managing production, marketing and financial risks in specialty crops $49,071.00 East Arkansas Enterprise Community, Inc AR Managing Risks through Retained Ownership and Marketing of Beef Cattle $49,997.48 Texas A&M AgriLife Extension TX Employing Peer Advisory Groups to implement new business risk management strategies. $46,708.00 Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service TX Directly reducing legal risks in farm labor arrangements, while creating long-term resilience. $47,475.00 Farm Commons, Inc. MN Development of 'Horse Basics' online course for horse operation managers and owners $48,884.22 Auburn University/Alabama Cooperative Extension System AL Direct Market Farming: A Guide to Getting Started $40,869.15 Farmers Assisting Returning Military TX Reducing Production Risks for Limited Resource Farmers in the ArkLaTex Region $49,691.00 National Center for Appropriate Technology MT Producers Underserved by Crop InsuranceFundedProjects: 2022-23 - 8Projects Project Name Requested Amount Institution State The Application of Risk Management Education to Increase Undeserved Producers' Adoption of Federal Crop Insurance Programs. $99,875.56 Farmers Outreach Solutions, Inc. NC Mitigating Risks to Enhance Profitability and Economic Viability of Historically Underserved Producers $37,995.00 Carolina Farm Stewardship Association NC Improving Risk Management for a Diversity of Texas Agricultural Producers, 2022-23 $99,005.00 Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service TX Risk Management and Emergency Preparedness in Puerto Rico, Phase II $99,998.76 University of Puero Rico at Mayagüez PR Demystifying Risk and Facilitating Participation in Crop Insurance and Federal Programs by Minority-Owned Diversified Farms in Black Belt Alabama $100,000.00 RURAL SOUTH INSTITUTE AL Integrating Risk and Marketing Management Strategies for Socially Disadvantaged, Limited Resource, and Native American Farmers and Ranchers in Oklahoma $97,700.00 National Crop Insurance Services AL Innovative Value-Added Agricultural Program for Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Veterans $99,162.00 Alabama A&M University AL Underserved producers in the Arkansas Delta implement the use of crop insurance to reduce financial and production risks $99,781.00 East Arkansas Enterprise Community, Inc AR Additionally, SRMEC funded two exploratory projects (planning grants) Leveraging Online Courses for In-Person Learning awarded to Texas Organic Farmers and Garderners Association (TC) Specialty Crop Risk Reduction Through Grower Education, Oklahoma and Arkansas Horticulture Industry Show (OK/AR) How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?The awarded projects have been listed on our Centers websiste and promoted out through our listserv. SRMEC is actively managing the projects through the Results Verification Center for progress reports and supporting the promotion of training oppotunities through our social media channels. SRMEC continues to partner with NCIS to enhance understanding of crop insurance and risk management resourcesto farmers and ranchers. Center Director, Ron Rainey, participated in an NCIS sponsored train-the-trainer in July 2022 in a presentation focued on equity across the evolution of agriculture. The session included a discussion on ways to enhance outreach and engagement with socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers. SRMEC maintains a Center website that highlightsthe Center/ERME programs and resources. The website promotes regional collaborations and partnerships that focus on risk management education outreach. The website also seeks input and stakeholder feedback. Communication with key stakeholders and clientele is accomplished through the use of the SRMEC listserv which is currently over 300 subscribers. Communications are periodically sent out to the listserv highlighting competitive grant program updates, notices of upcoming programs/trainings, as well as updates on the Center's website.SRMEC also maintains a collection of socia media sites: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LInkedIN. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?As part of the Extension Risk Management Education program, all of SRMEC concluded projects willhave their final project reports reviewed, approved and uploaded to the Extension RME website. This website allows users to query funded projects by risk management area, issue addressed and area the program was delivered. SRMEC's website features results from recently completed projects and resources developed from our funded projects along with links to ERME program partners. SRMEC provides presentations and staffed booths at grower, industry and stakeholder meetings throughout the year promoting the online archive of resources and other SRMEC activities. SRMEC will contiue to promote and build on its outlined program objectives for the coming year. Our primary goal is to continue promotion and management of our competitive grants program. The pandemic continues to somewhat limited our ability to engage directly with audiences but we have enhanced our social media presence and revamped our website. We continue to manage and communicate through our listserv to maintain consistent communication with our clientele and stakeholders. SRMEC will continue to successfully manage awarded projects to the conclusion of a successfully published final report. Additional efforts will be undertaken to develop and promote success stories from the educational activities primarily through social meda channels. These success stories detail the situation addressed by the project along with a reported impact that resulted from the change in knowledge of the training.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
SRMEC's primary purpose is to continue the successful management of the Extension Risk Management Education (ERME) competitive grants programs--risk management education and producers underserved by crop insurance--and outreach activities. The targeted SRMEC engagements seek to build capacity for farmers and ranchers to better understand risk issues and to effectively use risk management resources. Each funded project includes a detailed plan of work addressing program promotion, delivery and evaluation. Each project will report programmatic outcomes and impacts along with using a retrospective evaluation framework to document change in knowledge of project participants. SRMEC successfully managedits twenty-four (24) newly funded projects, our 2022-23 cohorts.
Publications
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Websites
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2022
Citation:
Jamie Cousins, Erica Fields, Celise Weems, Ronald Rainey. Southern Risk Management Education Center Website: https://srmec.uada.edu. Updated
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Websites
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2022
Citation:
Jamie Cousins, Candice Foster, Bart Fischer, Nathan Smith, Joe Outlaw, Ronald Rainey. Southern Ag Today (SAT). SAT is a collaborative effort among 13 universities led by the Southern Extension Economics Committee (land-grant extension agricultural economists), the Agricultural and Food Policy Center at Texas A&M, and the Southern Risk Management Education Center at the University of Arkansas.
https://southernagtoday.org/
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Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2022
Citation:
Jamie Cousins, Erica Fields, Celise Weems, and Ronald Rainey. Empowering Producers to Manage Risks. Southern Risk Management Education Center Infographic.
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