(08.18.2008)

Project Director(s): Jaime Smith and Candace Bartholomew
Institution: Ct Department of Agriculture
Funding Awarded: 2007

In response to the large number of women-owned agribusinesses in Connecticut, and by modeling other successful WAgN programs in Vermont and Maine, the CT Women’s Agricultural Network was established. Project cooperators and women entrepreneurs across Connecticut comprise the steering committee that developed the program of work.

WAgN provided women with the opportunity to learn risk management practices and encouraged them to network and learn from one another. WAgN participants were also made aware of and encouraged to attend other previously established risk management programs.

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(08.08.2008)

Author(s): Joe Outlaw
Institution: Texas A&M University
Publish Date: July 2008

Summary: This commodity program presentation was presented at the 2008 Farm Bill Education Conference in Kansas City, Missouri on July 8-9, 2008. The commodity program presentation covers the mechanics of marketing loan (ML) programs, direct payments (DP), counter-cyclical payments (CCP), and average crop revenue election (ACRE) payments. The presentation also addresses payment limitation and eligibility rules in the 2008 Farm Bill.

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