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 | | Location - Rocky Mountain Farmers Union Conference room
5655 S. Yosemite St. Suite 400
Greenwood Village, CO 80111
Agenda - Bylaws & Articles of Incorporation, Bill of Sale & Boarding Contract, Nomination of new Board members, and more.
ALL RMAC members are invited to attend/call in. | | | | Cow-Share College & Goat-Share University
A teleseminar series to feature information about the legal and operational requirements to start, maintain or upgrade a cow or goat share operation for farmers and consumers.
Start Dates: September 11, 2008
October 2, 2008
November 6, 008
Day/Time: Thursdays, 1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. EDT
Fee: $35 each class or $90 for three
Cow/Goat Shares 101 - Basic Legal & Operations
An introduction into cow-share contracts, set up, pricing and basic operations.
Topics:
Cow/herd/farm share theories and contracts, Variables within a given state, county and township restriction, Operation models that fit the needs of the consumers and providers
Instructors: Tim Wightman and Pete Kennedy, Esq.
Cow/Goat Shares 102 - Intermediate Operations
Discussion of operations refinements for optimum quality and profitability as well as solutions to common problems.
Topics: Pre-requisite: Cow/Goat Shares 101 or prior experience.
Instructor: Tim Wightman
Cow/Goat Shares 103 - Advanced Legal & Operations Forum
A lively forum for getting your most important legal and operations questions answered.
Topics: Expanding your market, Partnering, Involving shareholders
Instructors: Tim Wightman and Pete Kennedy, Esq.
Instructors:
Pete Kennedy is an attorney in Sarasota, Florida and is the Vice President, Board of Directors, Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund. He works on dairy issues, particularly, the right of farmers to distribute raw milk and raw milk products direct to consumers. He has helped two-three farmers get started in cow or goat-share operations each week.
Tim Wightman is a lifetime farmer and a founding member of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund board of Directors. He has pioneered CSAs, organic cooperatives, farmers' markets, the Cow-Share program, Farm-Share program and Milk Direct raw milk testing program while living in Northern Wisconsin. Tim consults worldwide with dairy farmers on cow-shares, raw milk safety and direct marketing and is the author of the "Raw Milk Production Handbook".
To register for these classes, call our office at 703-208-3276 (Monday - Friday 10:00 a.m. - 6 p.m. EDT) | | | | 10am-4pm
Larga Vista Ranch, Home of Doug & Kim Wiley
53505 Olson Rd.
Boone, Colorado 81025
(east of Pueblo)
• Meet and Greet Producer and Consumer Membership
• Tour Larga Vista Ranch
• Share pot-luck lunch
• Add 4 Board members (Currently have 6, need odd number; 9 suggested)
• Elect new officers (to be nominated October14th)
• Request speaker with National perspective & expertise
Interested producers should submit their name and a short bio by October 10th.
Applicants must be able to commit time to attend meetings, review minutes, understand raw milk politics, economics of small & medium sized dairies, and producer and consumer membership issues. They must be a producer member in good standing with RMAC.
All Board positions come up for re-election every 2 years.
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