Extension Communications
Extension 4-H Youth Building
Ames, Iowa 50011-3630
(515) 294-9915
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Extension Communications |
12/15/04
Contacts: Linda Fischer, Benton County Extension Education Director,
(319) 472-4739, lefisch@iastate.edu
Judy Isaacson, Extension External Relations Specialist, (319) 377-9839, jisaacso@iastate.edu
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa
-- Women will become better equipped to meet the challenges of today’s
agriculture at the Overall Conference for Rural Women, Jan. 21 to 22. This
conference will give women in agriculture a chance to cultivate
enthusiasm, reap success, develop ag business sense, and take time to relax.
The conference will be held at the Cedar Rapids Marriott Hotel.
The featured speaker is Michele Payn-Knoper, a champion for agriculture. Payn-Knoper
lives in rural Indiana and is a dairy breeder, columnist and founder of Cause
Matters. She knows the trials faced by rural women in agriculture, and will
inspire them with her dynamic presentations. Other speakers include Patty Judge,
Iowa Secretary of Agriculture, and Wendy Wintersteen, senior associate dean
of the ISU College of Agriculture.
Participants can attend eight of the 32 sessions offered. Sessions related
to the business of farming include value-added agriculture options, legal issues
in agriculture, agri-tourism, and grain marketing. Among sessions on personal
development will be “Championing Agriculture” (led by Payn-Knoper),
women’s health issues, long term care insurance and passing the farm
to the next generation. There are also leisure-related topics on landscaping,
quilting, preserving family traditions and digital photography.
The conference was planned by nine women connected to agriculture in southeast
Iowa along with ISU Extension staff.
Registrations are due Jan. 7, 2005. There are full-time and one-day registration
options available. To view the entire program, visit http://www.ucs.iastate.edu/mnet/overallwomen/home.html or contact your local ISU Extension county office for a Overall Women Conference
brochure. You can register online or call 800-262-0015.
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