Becoming a successful agricultural entrepreneur takes planning and preparation. Set yourself up for success from the start!
This course focuses on business planning with special attention to the financial and legal considerations unique to farm and food-based enterprises. You’ll develop the core elements of a business plan to guide your small business forward.

Over seven weekly sessions, we’ll walk you through the steps to create a plan for an existing business or a brand-new venture. Join a statewide cohort of other farm and food businesses, hear from expert speakers, and connect with regional groups for networking and community support.

Equine Herpes Virus provides the participants the opportunity to learn the different ways the EHV-1 virus is expressed in horses, and know how to prevent and treat the disease. This course offers a badge and is one of several available in the HorseQuest Badge Portfolio. This course includes a video, a learning lesson, and a quiz.

The fee for this course is $10.  To purchase and enroll in the course, click the following button:

If you purchase at least $40 worth of courses from this category, you can receive a 20% discount by entering the voucher code of HorseQuest20. 

A course for Extension staff at North Dakota State University, this provides a self-paced guide to evaluating extension programs, materials, and communications.

For more information or to enroll contact robert.bertsch@ndsu.edu

This is an introductory course for the Vaccine Education series created by Clemson University Cooperative Extension.

Other courses in this series include:

• Vaccination as a Priority
• The Science of Vaccination
• The Critical Role of Extension Agents & Vaccine Education at the National Level
• Communication Strategies and Motivational Interviewing
• Motivational Interviewing and Case Studies
• Neuromarketing Strategies for Brain-Friendly Health Messaging in Extension Outreach
• Health Media Literacy

In this course, you will learn how neuromarketing principles can transform your outreach.

This course is part of the Vaccine Education series created by Clemson University Cooperative Extension.

• Getting Started: Vaccine Education Onboarding
• Vaccination as a Priority
• The Science of Vaccination
• The Critical Role of Extension Agents & Vaccine Education at the National Level
• Communication Strategies and Motivation Interviewing
• Motivational Interviewing Case Studies
• Health Media Literacy

In this course, you will learn about vaccine hesitancy, the significance of community immunity, and recent vaccination development.

This course is part of the Vaccine Education series created by Clemson University Cooperative Extension.

• Getting Started: Vaccine Education Onboarding
• The Science of Vaccination
• The Critical Role of Extension Agents & Vaccine Education at the National Level
• Communication Strategies and Motivation Interviewing
• Motivational Interviewing Case Studies
• Neuromarketing Strategies for Brain-Friendly Health Messaging in Extension Outreach
• Health Media Literacy

Extension Horses presents an 8 week webinar series to improve the lives of you and your horse. Experts from across the country will present live on Thursday evenings at 7 pm CST/ 8 EST.

Recordings will be uploaded for later viewing.

October 3 - Horse Show Trends - Dr. Kathy Anderson, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

October 10 - Hints for Horse Owners Buying Hay - Dr. Bob Coleman, University of Kentucky

October 17 - Protecting Water Quality - Laura Kenney, MS ,Penn State University

October 24 - Feeding the Senior Horse - Dr. Nettie Liburt, Liburt Nutritional Consulting

October 31 - Supplements, Dr. Carey Williams, Rutgers University

November 7 - Pain in the Equine - Dr. Kris Hiney, Oklahoma State University

November 14 - Social License to Operate - Dr. Colleen Brady, Purdue University

November 21 - Pasture Management - Robyn Stewart, MS, University of Georgia

The Cattle Feedyard Safety Program, through the Central States Center for Agricultural Safety and Health, Gallagher Insurance, Nebraska Extension and the Nebraska Cattlemen, has compiled safety modules that can be used by cattle producers to conduct safety trainings with their employees. The modules are based on the topics identified through surveys, insurance companies, and other safety and health experts. The top 15 employee safety topics identified have been labeled the Feedyard 15.

This training is intended for anyone new to agriculture, about to begin employment in agriculture outside of their family business or wishing to improve their current skills and knowledge. People of all ages find this set of lessons relevant.

This four-part, asynchronous learning module was created by the Military Families Learning Network’s Early Intervention team. The interactive course focuses on the rights of young children with disabilities in military families, eligibility for special education programs and services for children with disabilities available within military systems, and strategies to support military families as they navigate these systems in military contexts.

The audience for this course is:

The Florida Master Gardener Volunteer Training Program prepares potential candidates to assist UF/IFAS County Extension with outreach and educational in the areas of Horticulture, Landscape Management, and Gardening.  Sessions are taught by UF/IFAS Agents and Specialists and will cover challenges that come with living and gardening in the Florida.

Upon Successful completion of this training, participants will be able to:

• Explain the role of UF/IFAS Extension, Extension Agents, and Master Gardeners.
• Define EDIS and search it for reference materials.
• Identify common weeds, invasive plants, and common pest insects
• Distinguish differences between different plant pathogens and common nutrient deficiencies
• List the 9 Principles of Florida Friendly Landscaping™
• Provide 5 major concepts that are needed when planning and designing a landscape or garden.
• Demonstrate proper best practices for plant propagation, tree care, and fruit and Vegetable Gardening
• Synthesize learned material to provide researched based and informed guidance to Extension Clients via verbal or online communication

For more information or to enroll please contact: 

Julio Perez
Commercial and Residential Horticulture Agent I
UF/IFAS Extension Putnam County
pjulio@ufl.edu

Mimi Vreeland
Residential Horticulture Agent I 
UF/IFAS Extension Flagler County
mvreeland@ufl.edu

Speaker:  Charlie Levesque-Innovative Natural Resource Solutions, LLC

A discussion of the basics of forest carbon and what it might mean in future years for the forest industry.  Specifically:  how do forests capture and store carbon, how does the forest carbon market work, how might forest carbon programs impact timber harvesting, how do landowners access these programs, what does all this mean for managing our forests.

1.5 Category 1 CEUs;  $30.00