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FRANKFORT, Ky. — The Kentucky Women in Agriculture Conference will open with a pre-conference agritourism workshop and tour Nov. 2 in Owensboro.
Kelly Ludwig, director of the Kentucky Department of Agriculture’s Division of Agritourism, will give an overview of agritourism in Kentucky and state government’s efforts to help the industry with expansion and marketing. Breakout sessions will be conducted on issues such as insurance, marketing and hospitality. That afternoon, an agritourism tour will stop at Lambert Land Maize and Pumpkin Patch, the West Kentucky Growers Cooperative and Reid’s Orchard.
The full conference is Nov. 3-4 at the Executive Inn Rivermont in Owensboro. Featured speakers include Hilda Legg of Somerset, former administrator with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Utilities Service, and Rockcastle County native John Carloftis, a garden designer who will be signing his book “First a Garden.”
Concurrent sessions Nov. 3 will cover Making the Most of Your Contacts, Adding Value to Your Products, Organizing Your Life and Back to Basics. Jake Schmitz, the Kentucky Department of Agriculture’s organic program coordinator, will sit on a panel discussing community supported agriculture, and Janet Eaton, the KDA’s farmers’ market coordinator, will moderate the panel.
More concurrent sessions and roundtable discussions will take place Nov. 4. Rayetta Boone, assistant director of the KDA’s Division of Agriculture Education, Farm Safety and Farmland Preservation, will direct a roundtable session on agriculture in the classroom.
The University of Kentucky and the Kentucky Department of Agriculture are platinum sponsors for the conference.
Preregistration is due by Oct. 20. Registration fee is $60 for KWIA members and $70 for nonmembers. An additional $10 is required for the preconference agritourism workshop. Send registration and checks payable to Kentucky Women in Agriculture Inc., to Kim Henken, University of Kentucky, 206 Scovell Hall, Lexington, KY 40546-0064.
For a conference program, registration forms or further information, visit the KWIA Web site at www.kywomeninag.com.
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