Thirty growers and 3,699 acres of water are involved in the project. These and many other producer grant projects will continue through the fall and winter and have reports available in early 2001. Winter Meetings N CR SARE offers a traveling display, printed informational materials, speakers bureau funding and a slide show to share with participants at your winter meetings and conferences. The display features information on the North Central SARE program, as well as a graphic depicting sustainable agriculture and a map illustrating SARE grant sites. The slide show explains sustainable agriculture, the SARE program and grant opportunities to a variety of audiences and comes with a script for users.
Organizations are eligible for funding once every other year.
You can also order a variety of free publications to distribute, such as the national SARE program's bulletins on marketing, pest management and on-farm research or copies of NCR SARE's annual report, lists of NCR SARE funded projects or recent newsletters. S cholarships Available for Business Planning Course T illing the Soil of Opportunity is an exciting new program for innovative producers starting or improving a direct marketing business. North Central SARE is offering a limited number of scholarships to farmers and ranchers to take this business planning class. Courses will be offered throughout the North Central region in fall and winter 2000-01. Course materials are designed to help test business ideas, explore marketing opportunities and increase business skills.