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MaryJane
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MaryJane
Moscow
Idaho
USA
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 Posted - Feb 24 2006 : 5:25:36 PM
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Raise Your Own Organic Natural Beef, Sheep, Poultry, Swine
Joel will share his system of raising organic pastured livestock from
beginning to end.
Also presenting:
• Writing your own farm plan for profitability - Linda Neunzig
• Emerging Beef Diseases - Dr. Greg Ingman
• Reducing your farms threat of Hanta Virus - Dave Pehling
Where: Skagit Valley College Campus
2405 E. College Way, Mount Vernon
When: March 11, 2006
Time: 8:30 AM—5:00 PM
Info: 360-428-4270
or http://skagit.wsu.edu/
Pre-Registration cost is $75.00 per person, or
$125 per couple and includes prime rib
lunch. At-the-door price will be $10.00 more
per person and does not include lunch.
*** $20.00 Student Special ***
FFA/4--H /STUDENT H /STUDENT PRE REGISTRATION
Pre-Registration cost is $20.00 per student, and
includes prime rib lunch. At-the-door price will be
$5..00 more per student and does not include lunch.
*** $20.00 Student Special ***
RSVP and Send Pre-Registration Fee To:
WSU Skagit County Extension
Attn: 2006 Winterschool
306 S. 1st Street
Mount Vernon, WA 98273
Make checks payable to:
WSU Livestock Master Foundation
Join Us!
Progressive beef and livestock producers in
Western Washington will be at SVC on
March 11th for this premier educational
event. The “2006 Livestock and Cattlemen’s
Winterschool: Profit Generating Strategies”
will provide the $ and Cents of raising and
marketing beef, sheep, and poultry products
in Western Washington.
The Winterschool features state-of-the-art,
take-home, practical, economical, humane,
and work-saving production and
management applications to save and/or
make you $. The instructors include
successful, respected producers, veterinarians,
WSU faculty and private specialists.
Commercial exhibitors, agencies and breed
organizations will be on hand to answer your
questions about new products and programs
designed to make you a well informed and
equipped producer. Resource materials from
the instructors will be printed in the 2006
Winterschool Proceedings to help you recall
and apply the “golden nuggets” of wisdom.
8:00 Check-In, Registration,
Vendors
8:30 Joel Huesby
Why Sustainable Agriculture?
9:30 Dr. Greg Ingman
Emerging Beef Disease Threats
10:30 BREAK, Vendors
11:00 Joel Huesby
Poultry Production ,Processing and
Marketing
12:00 LUNCH
Catered prime rib lunch complete with all
the fixings! Yum!
Speaker: Linda Neunzig
Writing Your Own Farm Plan for
Profitability
1:00 Joel Huesby
Beef Production, Processing & Marketing
2:30 BREAK, Vendors
3:00 Dave Pehling
Reducing Your Risk of Hantavirus
4:00 Joel Huesby
Putting it all together– Attitudes
& Discipline
4:45 Prize Drawing!
5:00 Happy Trails!
2006 Speakers:
Joel Huesby, a fourth-generation farmer with the family
farm, Thundering Hooves in Walla Walla, is the 2005
recipient of the Vim Wright Stewardship Award and has
created sustainability through marketing and alternative
farming practices.
Dr. Greg Ingman, DVM, graduate of the Washington State
University Veterinary Program, started the Chuckanut Valley
Veterinary Clinic in 1988 as a mobile large animal practice,
now located at 896 N. Burlington Blvd and also treats small
animals.
Linda Neunzig, owner of Ninety Farms in Arlington, has
been farming for 15 years and marketing produce and meat to
local area restaurants. Linda is also a WSU Extension Farm
Business Planner.
Dave Pehling is a zoologist who has been studying and
teaching about insects and vertebrate pest management for
Washington State University Extension in Snohomish County
since 1978.
Driving Directions:
Skagit Valley College is located at 2405 East College Way in
Mount Vernon, WA. From the North, take I-5 to exit 227
and turn left onto East College Way; follow until reaching the
college campus on the left. From the South, take I-5 to exit
227 and turn right onto East College Way; follow until
reaching the college campus on the left.
2006 Event Sponsors:
• WSU/Skagit & Snohomish County Extension Offices
• Skagit Cattlemen’s Association
• Skagit Valley College
Washington State University Extension
"World Class, Face to Face"
Washington State University Extension helps people develop leadership skills and use research-based
knowledge to improve economic status and quality of life. Cooperating agencies: Washington
State University, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Skagit County. Extension programs and
policies are available to all without discrimination. To request disability accommodation contact the
ADA Coordinator, Human Relations and Diversity, 509-335-8888 at least ten days in advance.
Skagit County Extension
306 S. 1st St.
Mount Vernon, WA 98273
This message originated from or was forwarded by:
Chrys Ostrander
Chrysalis Farm @ Tolstoy
Organic Micro-permaculture
33495 Mill Canyon Rd.
Davenport, WA 99122
509-725-0610
chrys@thefutureisorganic.net
http://www.thefutureisorganic.net
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