Women in Agriculture Conference registration opens
October 10, 2018
Registration is open for the 2018 Women in Agriculture Conference on Oct. 27.
The one-day virtual gathering will take place at four Alaska locations this year —
in Fairbanks, Delta Junction, Palmer and Soldotna. Altogether, the event will include
34 videoconference sites in Alaska, Montana, Oregon, Idaho and Washington. Speakers
will address this year’s theme, “Pump Up Your Financial Fitness.”
The program will begin at 7:30 a.m. and end around 3 p.m. The featured speakers will
be farm economist Robin Reid and farm analyst LaVell Windsor, both of Kansas State
University Extension; and Sarah Beth Aubrey, an author and farmer from Indiana. They
will talk about financial management, cash flow systems and strategies, and the value
women bring to the farm. Each site will also host a panel of local women farmers.
Registration and more information are available at http://womeninag.wsu.edu/. The early registration fee is $30 until Oct. 14 and $35 after that date. Agriculture
students, farm interns and members of FFA or 4-H pay $20. The fee includes the workshop,
a light breakfast, lunch and conference materials.
The conference will take place in Room 103-105 of the University of Alaska Fairbanks
Murie Building in Fairbanks; the Delta Career Advancement Center in Delta Junction;
the Kenai River Center in Soldotna; and the Matanuska Experiment Farm and Extension
Center in Palmer.
The UAF School of Natural Resources and Extension will host the event in Fairbanks,
and it and the Alaska Farmland Trust will host the event in Palmer. The Kenai and
Salcha-Delta soil and water conservation districts will host the event in Soldotna
and Delta Junction.
This is the fourth year for the conference in Alaska. Local coordinators are Meriam
Karlsson at mgkarlsson@alaska.edu in Fairbanks; Bryce Wrigley at bryce.wrigley@salchadeltaswcd.org, Delta Junction; Jodie Anderson at jmanderson@alaska.edu and Amy Pettit at amypettit@alaskafarmland.com, Palmer; and Heidi Chay at kenaiswcd@gmail.com, Soldotna.