SMALL FARMER TOUR

TALLAHASSEE, FL

TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS

JULY 23-27, 2008

A university van will be providing transportation to Tallahassee, FL. Listed below are the pick-up points. More detailed information is forthcoming.

NORTH CAROLINA - North Carolina State University

Luciana Alvardo, Velma Fryar-Maddox, Claude Pickett, and Joyce Sneed Carter

SOUTH CAROLINA - South Carolina State University

John Culbreath, Helen Fields, and Robert Watson

MISSISSIPPI - Alcorn State University

Felicia Bell, Michael Malone, Archie Skiffer, and Alvis Whitlock

LOUISIANA - Southern University
Pernell Livingston, Joseph Stanberry, Al J. Thomas

FLYING

Thomas Brown, Kenneth Ballard, Lynda Hassell, Lovell Pratcher,
Andre Barbour, Dana Lear, and Marion Simon

DRIVING

Clinton Blount, Barbara Shipman, Sandra Simone, Ernest Tyson, Lucile Mizelle, Eunice Cornelius, and Joe Aguilar

Small Farmer Tour Travel Arrangements to Tallahassee, Florida

July 23-27, 2008

A university van will be at each location to pick you up and travel to Tallahassee, Florida. More information is forthcoming.

SOUTH CAROLINA - South Carolina State University

John Culbreath, Helen Fields, and Robert Watson

NORTH CAROLINA - North Carolina State University

Luciana Alvardo, Velma Fryar-Maddox, Claude Pickett, and Joyce Sneed Carter

MISSISSIPPI - ALCORN STATE UNIVERSITY

Felicia Bell, Michael Malone, Archie Skiffer, and Alvis Whitlock

DRIVING

Clinton Blount, Barbara Shipman, Sandra Simone, Ernest Tyson, Lucile Mizelle, Joe Aguliar, and Eunice Cornelius.

FLYING

Thomas Brown, Kenneth Ballard, Andre Barbour, Dana Lear and Marion Simon, Lynda Hassell, and Lovell Pratcher.

DEPARTURE TIMES FOR TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA

VAN DEPARTURE TIMES FROM UNIVERSITIES

SOUTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY

8:30 a.m. DEPARTURE TIME

ALCORN STATE UNIVERSITY
7:00 a.m. DEPARTURE TIME
In front of the AG Building

SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY
8:00 a.m. DEPARTURE TIME
In front of the AG Building

Conference Call Access Code Correction

CONFERENCE CALL

Thursday, June 19, 2008
Please make every effort possible to attend this conference call.



Teleconferencing Services for June 19, 2008
Central Standard Time

• 6:30 Conference – Phone # 1-800-876-6944 / Access Code: 777#

• 7:30 Conference – Phone # 1-800-876-6944 / Access Code: 884#

February 21-23, 2008 @ Prairie View A & M University

Using Microsoft Office 2007

"How do you plan to use the Office Ultimate 2007 release to excel in your academic studies?"

This blog is part of the Microsoft "The Ultimate Steal" Blogging Contest. Go to www.theultimatesteal.com for details.
 

One idea is to have a bi-monthly newsletter. Instead of saddling one or two individuals with this responsibility, use of the blog is ideal. For those of us without Internet access, extracting a newsletter from the blog will be done using Publisher. One participant expressed the need for computer knowledge in order to produce labels for the fruit preserves. The desire to have graphics and important data on the label for customer feedback and marketing is essential to the farmer's success. Did we forget to mention flyers and post cards for advertising and marketing? InfoPath will be come a highly used tool for each farmer. The need for invoices, receipts and purchase requisitions are all a part of the new wave of farm management. The available tutorials and sample forms are the best points of origin a new user can ask for. The very first file transferred between classmates was the Excel worksheet that allows the user to have a monthly income and expense workbook that has worksheets for each month and has a year to date column, it's perfect for budget projections and accounts management. Each farmer curtails to activities pertinent to their farm. Using Access to maintain customer and supplier tables that allow report generation of select records will help the farmer determine trends and the areas of growth. Use of Microsoft Wordmakes this all possible. From the insertion of graphic images and hyperlinks to grammar checking, Word is the essential tool of choice. Animal and crop production, from seed to harvest, can only shine through PowerPointpresentations with music, video and animations.
 

Who Moved My Cheese?

CONFERENCE CALL

Monday, December 1, 2008

Central Standard Time
6:30PM (1-800-876-6944 Access Code: 777#)
7:30PM (1-800-876-6944 Access Code: 884#)

MANDATORY Conference Call

Teleconferencing Services for
Thursday, April 24, 2008

Central Standard Time
• 6:30 Conference – Phone # 1-800-876-6944 / Access Code: 884#

• 7:30 Conference – Phone # 1-800-876-6944 / Access Code: 777#

Hotel Information for Session 2 - Orangeburg, SC

Hotel Information for Small Farmer Class II - Session 2

Orangeburg, South Carolina

Sleep Inn
3689 St. Matthews Road
Orangeburg, S.C. 29118
Phone 803-531-7200 Fax 803-531-4100

Check in after 3:00 pm on the 5th of December.
Training will be over by Noon on the 8th.

January 10-12, 2008 @ Southern University AgCenter

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Conference Call for Baton Rouge, LA

There will be two conference calls Monday, January 7, 2008, for participants having questions concerning the Baton Rouge, LA Session. Listed below are the times of the conferences. Thank you.

Monday, January 7, 2008 (Central Time)

· 6:30 – 7:30pm Dial 1-800-876-6944 Access Code: 884#

· 7:30 – 8:30pm Dial 1-800-876-6944 Access Code: 777#

Hotel Information for Session 3 - Baton Rouge, LA

Hotel Information for Small Farmer Class II - Session 3

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Comfort Suites
3045 Valley Creek Road
Baton Rouge, LA 70808
Phone 225-923-3377

Check in is 3:00 p.m. on the 9th of January.

December 6-8 2007 @ South Carolina State University

Orangeburg, South Carolina

Conference Call for Orangeburg, SC Session

There will be two conference calls Monday, December 3, 2007, for participants having questions concerning the Orangeburg, SC Session. Listed below are the times of the conferences. Thank you.

Teleconferencing Services for December 3, 2007

· 6:30 Conference – Phone # 1-800-876-6944 / Access Code: 884#

· 7:30 Conference – Phone # 1-800-876-6944 / Access Code: 777#

CONFERENCE CALL

October 13, 2008
Central Standard Time

6:30pm - 7:30PM CST - - - Dial 1-800-876-6944, Access Code: 777#

7:30pm - 8:30PM CST - - - Dial 1-800-876-6944, Access Code: 884#

SESSION 6

SESSION 6
BATON ROUGE, LA
OCTOBER 16-18, 2008

HOTEL RESERVATION

Best Western Chateau Louisiane All Suites and Hotel

710 N Lobdell

Baton Rouge, LA 70806

(225) 927-6700

STIPEND CHECKS

The stipend checks have been mailed.
If anyone did not receive theirs,
please contact me at 225-771-5124
or email me at
cheryl_ferrygood@subr.edu

Thanks
Cheryl Ferrygood

Hello fellow leaders!
I was unable to attend the last conference call but was wondering how everyone was doing with the conditions of our economy. Our little feed store "County Line Feed & Fertilizer" is hanging in there and I am now up to 20 goats and have with some good luck (12 nannies bred to a full south african boer that I leased). Some are already beginning to "show" signs of preparing for kidding and only two are questionable or not bred. Those of course will get to be sold soon.

I am also quite busy with my other hat in extension. Some of you as well as local producers have had questions about alternative sources for fertilizer and have asked about Monty's Liquid Fertilizer. I have had a few producers to try it - but do not expect miracles at first. This is a long program that you should follow to the letter but could end up saving you on your fertilizer costs.

Hope to see everyone soon.

Rene' McCracken
903-316-1041
lrmccracken@ag.tamu.edu