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Annie’s Project: Education for Farm Women By Tami Davenport PARK HILLS -- Farming is a complex business and more farm women are becoming active business partners in their operations. Annie’s Project is designed to empower farm women to manage information systems used in critical decision making processes and to build local networks throughout the state. The target audience is farm women with a passion for business and involvement. Annie was a farm woman from Northern Illinois who spent her lifetime learning how to be an involved business partner with her farm husband. Annie’s Project takes her life-experiences and shares it with farm women living and working in a complicated business. Participants will gain a better understanding of human resource issues, business plans, financial documentation, property titles, cash and crop share leases, marketing plans, retirement and estate planning and types of insurance. All participants will receive training on FAST Tools record keeping software. More than 5,000 women from 15 states have graduated from Annie’s Project and soon there will be a program near you. The program embraces all farm women regardless of farm size or type. When: Every Thursday beginning September 10th through October 8th Time: 6 – 9 p.m. Where: Mineral Area TCRC located in the Technology Building at Mineral Area College, 5720 Flat River Road, Park Hills, MO 63601 Please pre-register by calling Lynn Heins at the Washington County Extension Office at (573) 438-2671. Registration is $50 and includes a black zip notebook, calculator, thumb drive and FAST Tools record keeping software. For more information, please see the Annie’s Project website at http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Annie/. |
