The Art of Email: Writing Farm Newsletters
Email newsletters are the best way to cultivate a relationship of trust with your clients, especially if you can write one that ISN’T boring. In this workshop, we’ll share some best practices for the art of email copywriting.
Cultivating Your Customers - The Secret to Higher Profits,
Are you looking to maximize your profits on your farm? In this workshop, we’ll share several strategies to excite and amaze your customers and move them into superfan status.
Offering Virtual Farm Experiences
From corporate goat Zoom calls to online field trips for kids, find how how farmers are giving others a taste of farm life from a distance. Panelists will discuss the fun - and profitable - ways they are sharing their farm via screens and video cams.
Farrowing on Pasture
Learn best practices when it comes to pasture-based farrowing, including considerations for infrastructure needs, scheduling/timing, and animal health and safety.
Lambing, Kidding, and Calving on Pasture
Join our expert panelists to hear how they handle lambing, kidding, and calving, including helpful tools, recognizing imminent birth, how a normal birth proceeds, and when and how to intervene.
Starting A Farmers’ Market - a Case Study from South Carolina
Guest presenter April Jones discusses how to create your own market unique to your community's needs, including building a customer base and finding farmers to participate in the market.
Promoting Your Farm & Engaging with Customers at the Farmers’ Market
Guest presenter April Jones will discuss tips and strategies to promote your farm at the market, including how to build your customer base, create repeat customers, engage on social media, and build partnerships.
Introduction to Raising Heritage Poultry
In this workshop we will discuss the perks and challenges hertiage poultry producers will face, and how to take advantage of other income streams from your flock that can be generated beyond eggs or meat.
Strategies for Online Farm Sales
Are you looking to transition to online or pre-paid sales? Thinking about offering home delivery or curbside pick-up? Our farmer panelists will share their experience with various online platforms, and also offer tips for navigating the logistical challenges.
Livestock Compass - A Profit Management Tool
Presenters John Hendrickson of the U. of WI and grassfed beef producer Jim Munsch discuss the Livestock Compass, a spreadsheet that helps livestock producers measure profitability and identify ways to improve financial outcomes.
Creating Locally-Adapted Herbivores with Dr. Fred Provenza (Part 3 of 3)
Dr. Fred Provenza discusses how we can help livestock prosper by using foods and habitats available locally while minimizing inputs from fossil fuels.
Plant Diversity + Health with Dr. Fred Provenza (Part 2 of 3)
In this second webinar in a three-part series, guest presenter Dr. Fred Provenza will discuss how plant health and diversity impacts animal health and ultimately human health.
Feed as Medicine With Dr. Fred Provenza (Part 1 of 3)
In this first webinar in a three-part series, guest presenter Dr. Fred Provenza will discuss the wisdom of the body focusing on livestock and how animal feed can serve a medicinal purpose.
Water Management for Pasture Grazing Systems
Discover approaches to assessing the water in your pastures and methods to divert, slow, spread, and sink water into the soil. Learn when ditches, ponds, swales, and other methods are appropriate.
Pasture-Based Livestock: Advancing Ecological, Economic, and Emotional Resilience
Pastured livestock offers an array of exciting opportunities and solutions. Learn how to leverage grazing ruminants to advance resilience within your operation.
Practical Tips for Solar Grazing Sheep
Join FACT and panelists from the American Solar Grazing Association to discuss new trends in solar grazing, best practices for shepherds and solar developers, and how you can get started.
Grazing to Avoid Trouble
We discuss some of the problems farmers might encounter while grazing their livestock. Bloat, toxic plants, fescue toxicity, predator control, and parasite management will be addressed
Pasture Biodiversity for Animal Health
We discuss how you can manage your pastures with regenerative methods to beneficially influence the health of your livestock and the ecosystem by fostering biodiversity both above and below ground.
Pasture Management for Limited Resource Farmers
This webinar gives small, limited resource farmers the tools they need to better understand the benefits of good pasture management.
Choosing the Right Animal, for the Right Place, at the Right Time
oin us to learn some of the differences and when to leverage different types for different uses. This is the third part of a three part silvopasture webinar series with presenter Steve Gabriel.