National Farm Viability Conference

National Farm Viability Conference

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6:00am MDT

Coffee & Breakfast Snacks Available Alvarado ABCD

7:00am MDT

Breakfast Alvarado ABCD

8:15am MDT

Plenary "Resilience in Practice: Policy Lessons for Challenging Times" Alvarado ABCD

9:00am MDT

Breakout Session 3 New Ideas for Our Intractable Problems Alvarado FLori Stern • Tera Johnson • Zach Ducheneaux Navigating the Complex Emotional, Social, and Financial Issues of Working with Farmers in Distress Alvarado GSam Smith • Michael Robertson Side Meeting: Conservation Practices Cost-Benefit - By Invitation PottersAmanda Cather • Reid Miller • Dorothy Suput • Brett Melone Build your Capacity to Meet Clients' Marketing Needs WeaversMyrna Greenfield Cross-State Approaches to Equitable Farmland Tenure and Purchase BallroomLiya Schwartzman • James Nakahara • Krisztián Varsa • Kathryn Lyddan Developing a Model Ethics Policy for Farm Business Assistance Organizations TurquoiseRachel Armstrong • Paige Phinney • Benneth Phelps • Jack Hornickel • Poppy Davis

10:30am MDT

Coffee & Conversation Break East Atrium

11:00am MDT

Breakout Session 4 Sharing Practices and New Thinking to Unlocking Capital and Collaboration to Increase Farmland Access TurquoiseJulia Valliant • Jan Joannides • Dorothy Suput Integrating Climate Risk Assessments & Resilience Strategies into Farm Business Planning Alvarado FAmanda Cather • Poppy Davis • Reid Miller Navigating Farm Financial Stress: Tools, Decisions, and Knowing Your Tipping Point Alvarado GPaul Dietmann • Chris Laughton Tax Management Strategies and a Tax Estimator Tool BallroomAdam Kantrovich • JC Hobbs • Ruby Ward • Sarah Campbell Expanding Value-Added Processing for Institutional Markets: Barriers, Roles, and Solutions Alvarado HLibby Christensen • Amy Buskirk • Brandon Seng • Jacqueline Montoya Farmlinking Roundtable PottersLiya Schwartzman • Shemariah Blum-Evitts Ethical Quandary: Holding both farm profitability and food system change, when they don't always pull the same direction FireplacePaige Phinney • James Smith Sustaining and Funding an Ecosystem - How Four Organizations are Coming Together to Strengthen Small-Scale Farming Businesses in the Salinas Valley WeaversAndrea Levy • Nathan Harkleroad • Rui Bing Zheng

12:45pm MDT

Pickup Box Lunch & Join Tour Buses Alvarado ABCD Chispas Farm & Grow the Growers Program: Sustainable Agriculture in the South Valley - FULL Farm TourCasey Holland

Collaboration in Corrales: How Neighboring Producers Join Forces for Economic Viability - FULL Farm TourElan Silverblatt-Buser • Aaron Silverblatt-Buser

Four Daughters Pecan Orchard: Growing NM Pecans and Business Resilience Farm TourTroy Richardson

Hearth, Wind and Sol Farm: Monitoring, Adaptation, and Innovation Farm TourJohn Humphries • Ann Adams

Loose Leaf Farm: Diversity for Future Viability Farm TourSarah Robertson • Mark Robertson

Sile Pastures: Nourishing Land, Animals, and Community Raising Grassfed Beef and Lamb Farm TourAndrea Hagan • Sage Hagan

5:30pm MDT

Tour Buses Return

6:00pm MDT

Conference Day Ends - Dinner Out in Self-Organized Small Groups

National Farm Viability Conference

From $475.00