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Save the Date for the Michigan Family Farms Conference on January 17, 2009

October 20, 2008: Save the date now for the sixth annual Michigan Family Farms Conference on Saturday, January 17, 2009 at Lakeview High School in Battle Creek, Michigan! Read the whole story...

Registration is closed. Walk-ins to the conference are welcome, but meals are not guaranteed.

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This year’s theme, “New Opportunities, Sustaining Local Agriculture for the Future”, will discuss issues facing limited resource farmers and the family farm. Learn about the new Farm Bill opportunities, organic growing, soils and cover crops, woodlot management, beekeeping, marketing ideas, alternative energy and savings, Farm to School, insurance products, loans and more during the educational sessions.

Wayne Keith, the Alabama farmer, innovator and energy guru whose wood-burning pickup truck sheds new light on the future of biofuels, will be back this year as our keynote speaker to share his knowledge and experience on saving energy and producing it yourself on your farm.

Partners and sponsors to date include the USDA Risk Management Agency (RMA), the Farm Research Cooperative, Michigan Food & Farming Systems (MIFFS), USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA), USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), USDA Rural Development (RD), Potawatomi Resource Conservation & Development Council (RC&D), Michigan State University Extension, and the Calhoun and Kalamazoo Conservation Districts.

Full conference brochures and online registration will be available soon at www.miffs.org/mffc, where you can also read more about the conference and successes of past years.

For more information, contact the MIFFS Office at (517) 432-0712 or miffs@msu.edu or Barbara Norman at (269) 208-4588. Save the date, and don’t miss out on this great conference!

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