Author: Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture and state
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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AgriNews
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture and state
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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Agri News
Author: Benn's Media
Author: The Minnesota Response
Author: George Wilson MorsePublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1440155410
Category : Budget deficits
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
About the Book The Minnesota Response explains how Minnesota Extension responded to its mission and money crisis in 2004 with a sweeping restructuring. Breaking with 95 years of tradition, Minnesota Extension shifted from a county delivery model to a regional/county model. Regionalization, however, is the tip of the iceberg. Several other policies define Minnesota's new approach, including changes in funding sources, degree of specialization of the regional educators, more statewide program teams, development of business plans and public value statements, supervision of field educators by program specialists rather than geographic supervisors, new scholarship and promotion expectations, and new evaluation efforts. The Minnesota Response describes these policies and reports on their initial impacts on program quality, scholarship, access, and public support. As land-grant universities seek to rebuild programs based on 'best practices,' this book contributes valuable, experience-based insights into the choices available as Extension programs continue to evolve and respond. Michael V. Martin, Chancellor of Louisiana State University.
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Author: Kentucky Agri-news
Author: Agricultural Economics Publication List
Author: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dept. of Agricultural EconomicsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
The Working Press of the Nation
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Category : American newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 1146
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Bulletin
Author: Texas. Department of AgriculturePublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 958
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The Growing Season
Author: Sarah FreyPublisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0593129415
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
“A gutsy success story” (The New York Times Book Review) about one tenacious woman’s journey to escape rural poverty and create a billion-dollar farming business—without ever leaving the land she loves The youngest of her parents’ combined twenty-one children, Sarah Frey grew up on a struggling farm in southern Illinois, often having to grow, catch, or hunt her own dinner alongside her brothers. She spent much of her early childhood dreaming of running away to the big city—or really anywhere with central heating. At fifteen, she moved out of her family home and started her own fresh produce delivery business with nothing more than an old pickup truck. Two years later, when the family farm faced inevitable foreclosure, Frey gave up on her dreams of escape, took over the farm, and created her own produce company. Refusing to play by traditional rules, at seventeen she began talking her way into suit-filled boardrooms, making deals with the nation’s largest retailers. Her early negotiations became so legendary that Harvard Business School published some of her deals as case studies, which have turned out to be favorites among its students. Today, her family-operated company, Frey Farms, has become one of America’s largest fresh produce growers and shippers, with farmland spread across seven states. Thanks to the millions of melons and pumpkins she sells annually, Frey has been dubbed “America’s Pumpkin Queen” by the national press. The Growing Season tells the inspiring story of how a scrappy rural childhood gave Frey the grit and resiliency to take risks that paid off in unexpected ways. Rather than leaving her community, she found adventure and opportunity in one of the most forgotten parts of our country. With fearlessness and creativity, she literally dug her destiny out of the dirt.