Progress 09/01/15 to 08/31/19
Outputs Target Audience:Target audiences for this project are all risk management educators throughout the country; producers seeking to improve their risk management capabilities; and educators, lenders, consultants, media, government agencies and others working in agriculture looking for information on specific risk management topics. Extension risk management education projects using this project's resources (specifically the National Ag Risk Education Library and the Results Verification System) target beginning farmers, immigrant farmers, socially disadvantaged producers, and retiring producers. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?The project supports the annual National Ag Risk Education conference This conference provides considerable opportunities for risk management educators to learn from other educators and in particular to learn from existing ERME projects. The proceedings of this conference are hosted on the Ag Risk and Farm Management Library. The conference has a specific track for professional development. Each year the National Ag Risk Management conference has nearly 200 attendees with 40 professional development sessions. In partnership with the regional centers, Digital Center staff also help provide training to grant awardees. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?The results of individual projects are fully available at www.extensionrme.org. 962 completed projects can be searched in this database to learn what producers have learned, applied, or achieved as a result of participating in projects funded by Extension RME. The Ag Risk and Farm Management Library is also available to the public including educational documents, the crop and livestock budget library, and proceedings from Extension Risk Management Education conferences. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?
Nothing Reported
Impacts What was accomplished under these goals?
Continue to develop and expand the delivery of risk management education through the online Ag Risk and Farm Management Library, which currently provides organized access to more than 3,200 risk management education materials. Throughout the project period, the Ag Risk and Farm Management Library and ExtensionRME.org websites was used by more than 40,000 individual educators, other ag professionals and producers who accessed tens of thousands of documents. The Ag Risk Education Library provides a single source of information to producers, educators, media, and other agricultural professionals. Provide electronic support to the regional centers by continuing to provide the Results Verification System, an online proposal and reporting system, to the regional centers so they can efficiently receive, award, and manage project applications and reports. Throughout the project period, there were over 550 proposals submitted electronically using the Results Verification System to the regional centers. Digital center staff also worked closely with regional center staff to more fully understand topics, target audiences, and producer actions identified in their funded proposals. This helps regional centers identify areas of funding needs. Provide public access to a searchable archival database of the results of all risk management education funded projects so risk management education providers can collaborate and learn from one another. All completed projects are available online at extensionrme.org in a searchable database. This allows the public and potential project directors to search by topic or geographic region to learn about risk management education projects, determine what has successfully helped producers manage risk and either build upon the project's outputs or collaborate with the project. The public can view and dynamically search over 950 completed risk management education project reports in the system. All funding applications to the regional Extension Risk Management Education Centers must research this database and describe how their proposed project will build upon or collaborate with prior work. Collaborate with the regional centers to help ensure that risk management programs are delivered to underserved and disadvantaged producers, including special emphasis audiences of beginning farmers and ranchers, immigrant producers, producers transitioning their business to new operators, and producers converting production or marketing systems to pursue new markets. We facilitated a meeting with regional center directors and NIFA national program leaders responsible for 1890 and 1994 programs. Provide leadership to the regional centers to develop and implement a national risk management education communications plan that will help producers, practitioners, and stakeholders learn about risk management education programs. The Digital Center continues to work with the regional centers to update their websites and to ensure consistent messaging. We led the ERME communications team during this period. We help coordinate participation at select national conferences to promote ERME. Social media sites have been incorporated on the Extension RME site. Extension RME now has Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Vimeo, Flickr, and Friendfeed websites. All of these social media sites are accessible from the national Extension RME website. Improve the overall effectiveness of developing and delivering risk management education by supporting the four regional Risk Management Education Centers with technology issues and identifying and developing new technologies to deliver risk management education. During the project period, the Digital Center has developed online review capabilities for funding panels and streamlined the overall electronic review of applications. We also developed the ability to provide reviewer comments to applicants in their Results Verification System account rather than via email. The Digital Center has also developed administration reports to allow regional center staff to more closely monitor funded projects toward successful project completion. Help improve the collaboration and coordination between the regional centers, and provide technical support to help conduct national Extension Risk Management Education conferences. The Digital Center continues to facilitate communication and consistency between regional centers and to coordinate center director meetings.
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Progress 09/01/17 to 08/31/18
Outputs Target Audience:Target audiences for this project are all risk management educators throughout the country; producers seeking to improve their risk management capabilities; and educators, lenders, consultants, media, government agencies and others working in agriculture looking for information on specific risk management topics. Extension risk management education projects using this project's resources (specifically the National Ag Risk Education Library and the Results Verification System) targetbeginning farmers, immigrant farmers, socially disadvantaged producers, and retiring producers. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?The project supports the annual National Ag Risk Education conference This conference provides considerable opportunities for risk management educators to learn from other educators and in particular to learn from existing ERME projects. The proceedings of this conference are hosted on the Ag Risk and Farm Management Library. The conference has a specific track for professional development. The 2018 National Ag Risk Management conference had nearly 200 attendees with 40 professional development sessions. In partnership with the regional centers, Digital Center staff also help provide training to grant awardees. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?The results of individual projects are fully available at www.extensionrme.org. 917completedprojects can be searched in this database to learn what producers have learned, applied, or achieved as a result of participating inprojects funded by Extension RME. The Ag Risk and Farm Management Library is also available to thepublic including educational documents, the crop and livestock budget library, and proceedings from Extension Risk Management Education conferences. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?Continue to add documents to the redesigned Ag Risk and Farm Management Library. Complete somestructuraldevelopments to allow easier submission of documents to the Library. Work with the regional centersto obtain better final reports in the RVS, through improved training and communication. Inparticular, work on getting better individual participant stories. This effort will rely on input from the four regional centers.
Impacts What was accomplished under these goals?
1. Continue to develop and expand the delivery of risk management education through the online Ag Risk and FarmM nagement Library, which currently provides organized access to more than 2,000 risk management education materials. From September 1, 2017 through August 31, 2018 the Ag Risk and Farm Management Library and ExtensionRME.org websites was used by more than 13,000 individual educators, otherag professionals and producers who accessed tens of thousands of documents. The Ag Risk Education Library provides a single source of information to producers, educators, media, and other agricultural professionals. Provide electronic support to the regional centers by continuing to provide the Results Verification System, an online proposal and reporting system, to the regional centers so they can efficiently receive, award, and manage project applications and reports. In 2018 more than 100 proposals were submitted electronically to the regional centers using the Results Verification System. Provide public access to a searchable archival database of the results of all risk management education funded projects so risk management education providers can collaborate and learn from one another. All completed projects are available online at extensionrme.org in a searchable database. This allows the public and potential project directors to search by topic or geographic region to learn about risk management education projects, determine what has successfully helped producers manage risk and either build upon the project's outputs or collaborate with the project. The public can view and dynamically search over 900 completed risk management education project reports in the system. All funding applications to the regional Extension Risk Management Education Centers must research this database and describe how their proposed project will build upon or collaborate with prior work. Collaborate with the regional centers to help ensure that risk management programs are delivered to underserved and disadvantaged producers, including special emphasis audiences of beginning farmers and ranchers, immigrant producers, producers transitioning their business to new operators, and producers converting production or marketing systems to pursue new markets. We facilitated a meeting with regional center directors and NIFA national program leaders responsible for 1890 and 1994 programs. Provide leadership to the regional centers to develop and implement a national risk management education communications plan that will help producers, practitioners, and stakeholders learn about risk management education programs. The Digital Center continues to work with the regional centers to update their websites and to ensure consistent messaging. We led the ERME communications team for this period. We help coordinate participation at select national conferences to promote ERME. Social media sites have been incorporated on the Extension RME site. Extension RME now has Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Vimeo, Flickr, and Friendfeed websites. All of these social media sites are accessible from the national Extension RME website. Improve the overall effectiveness of developing and delivering risk management education by supporting the four regional Risk Management Education Centers with technology issues and identifying and developing new technologies to deliver risk management education. The Digital Center has recently developed online review capabilities for funding panels and streamlined the overall electronic review of applications. We also developed the ability to provide reviewer comments to applicants in their Results Verification System account rather than via email. Help improve the collaboration and coordination between the regional centers, and provide technical support to help conduct national Extension Risk Management Education conferences. The Digital Center continues to facilitatecommunication and consistency between regional centers and to coordinate center director meetings.
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Progress 09/01/16 to 08/31/17
Outputs Target Audience:Target audiences for this project are all risk management educators throughout the country; producers seeking to improve their risk management capabilities; and educators, lenders, consultants, media, government agencies and others working in agriculture looking for information on specific risk management topics. Extension risk management education projects using this project's resources (specifically the National Ag Risk Education Library and the Results Verification System) target beginning farmers, immigrant farmers, socially disadvantaged producers, and retiring producers. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?The project supports the annual National Ag Risk Education conference This conference provides considerable opportunities for risk management educators to learn from other educators and in particular to learn from existing ERME projects. The proceedings of this conference are hosted on the Ag Risk and Farm Management Library. The conference has a specifictrack for professional development. The 2017 National Ag Risk Management conference had 196 attendees with 41 professional development sessions. In partnership with the regional centers, Digital Center staff also help provide training to grant awardees. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?The results of individual projects are fully available at www.extensionrme.org. 854 completed projects can be searchedin this database to learn what producers have learned, applied, or achieved as a result of participating in projects funded byExtension RME. The Ag Risk and Farm Management Library is also available to the public including educational documents, the crop and livestock budget library, and proceedings from Extension Risk Management Education conferences. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?Continue to add documents to the redesigned Ag Risk and Farm Management Library. Complete some structural developments to allow easier submission of documents to the Library. Work with the regional centers to obtain better final reports in the RVS, through improved training and communication. In particular, work on getting better individual participant stories. During the next year we plan to redesign the ExtensionRME.org web site. This effort will rely on input from the four regional centers.
Impacts What was accomplished under these goals?
Continue to develop and expand the delivery of risk management education through the online Ag Risk and Farm Management Library, which currently provides organized access to more than 2,000 risk management education materials. From September 1, 2016 through July 31, 2017 the Ag Risk and Farm Management Library and ExtensionRME.org websites was used by nearly 9,000 individual educators, over ag professionals and producers who accessed tens of thousands of documents. The Ag Risk Education Library provides a single source of information to producers, educators, media, and other agricultural professionals. 2. Provide electronic support to the regional centers by continuing to provide the Results Verification System, an online proposal and reporting system, to the regional centers so they can efficiently receive, award, and manage project applications and reports. In 2017 128 proposals were submitted electronically to the regional centers using the Results Verification System. 3. Provide public access to a searchable archival database of the results of all risk management education funded projects so risk management education providers can collaborate and learn from one another. All completed projects are available online at extensionrme.org in a searchable database. This allows the public and potential project directors to search by topic or geographic region to learn about risk management education projects, determine what has successfully helped producers manage risk and either build upon the project's outputs or collaborate with the project. The public can view and dynamically search over 850 completed risk management education project reports in the system. All funding applications to the regional Extension Risk Management Education Centers must research this database and describe how their proposed project will build upon or collaborate with prior work. 4. Collaborate with the regional centers to help ensure that risk management programs are delivered to underserved and disadvantaged producers, including special emphasis audiences of beginning farmers and ranchers, immigrant producers, producers transitioning their business to new operators, and producers converting production or marketing systems to pursue new markets. We facilitated a meeting with regional center directors and NIFA national program leaders responsible for 1890 and 1994 programs. 5. Provide leadership to the regional centers to develop and implement a national risk management education communications plan that will help producers, practitioners, and stakeholders learn about risk management education programs.The Digital Center continues to work with the regional centers to update their websites and to ensure consistent messaging. We led the ERME communications team for this period. We help coordinate participation at select national conferences to promote ERME. Social media sites have been incorporated on the Extension RME site. Extension RME now has Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Vimeo, Flickr, and Friendfeed websites. All of these social media sites are accessible from the national Extension RME website. 6. Improve the overall effectiveness of developing and delivering risk management education by supporting the four regional Risk Management Education Centers with technology issues and identifying and developing new technologies to deliver risk management education. The Digital Center has recently developed online review capabilities for funding panels and streamlined the overall electronic review of applications. We also developed the ability to provide reviewer comments to applicants in their Results Verification System account rather than via email. 7. Help improve the collaboration and coordination between the regional centers, and provide technical support to help conduct national Extension Risk Management Education conferences. The Digital Center continues to facilitate communication and consistency between regional centers and to coordinate center director meetings.
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Progress 09/01/15 to 08/31/16
Outputs Target Audience:Target audiences for this project are all risk management educators throughout the country; producers seeking to improve their risk management capabilities; and educators, lenders, consultants, media, government agencies and others working in agriculture looking for information on specific risk management topics. Extension risk management education projects using this project's resources (specifically the National Ag Risk Education Library and the Results Verification System) target beginning farmers, immigrant farmers, socially disadvantaged producers, and retiring producers. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?The project supports the annual National Ag Risk Education conference This conference provides considerable opportunities for risk management educators to learn from other educators and in particular to learn from existing ERME projects. The proceedings of this conference are hosted on the Ag Risk and Farm Management Library. The conference has a specific tracks for professional development and for women in ag. The 2016 National Ag Risk Management conference had 195attendees with 39 professional development sessions. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?The results of individual projects are fully available at www.extensionrme.org. 798 completed projects can be searched in this database to learn what producers have learned, applied, or achieved as a result of participating in projects funded by Extension RME. The Ag Risk and Farm Management Library is also available to the public including educational documents, the crop and livestock budget library, and proceedings from Extension Risk Management Education conferences. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?We will continue to work on developinga total redesign of the Ag Risk and Farm Managment Library. This redesign will make the Library search features much more powerful while also making finding materials much easier for people using the Library. The user interface will be updated and changed from topical lists to a topical filtering system. The search methodology in the Budget Library will also be updated to faster and easier to use search methods. Additional materials will continue to be added to the Library. New RFA's will uploaded to the Results Verification System and a new funding opportunity will be initiated during the next reporting period. Support will be provided for the regional centers using the system to receive applications and for project directors submitting applications. Previous awardeeswill also be supported as they submit progress and final reports.
Impacts What was accomplished under these goals?
Continue to develop and expand the delivery of risk management education through the online Ag Risk and Farm Management Library, which currently provides organized access to more than 3,200 risk management education materials. From September 1, 2015 through July 31, 2016 the Ag Risk and Farm Management Library and ExtensionRME.org websites was used by nearly 6,000 individual educators, over ag professionals and producers who accessed tens of thousands of documents. The Ag Risk Education Library provides a single source of information to producers, educators, media, and other agricultural professionals. 2. Provide electronic support to the regional centers by continuing to provide the Results Verification System, an online proposal and reporting system, to the regional centers so they can efficiently receive, award, and manage project applications and reports. In 2016 157 proposals were submitted electronically to the regional centers using the Results Verification System. 3. Provide public access to a searchable archival database of the results of all risk management education funded projects so risk management education providers can collaborate and learn from one another. All completed projects are available online at extensionrme.org in a searchable database. This allows the public and potential project directors to search by topic or geographic region to learn about risk management education projects, determine what has successfully helped producers manage risk and either build upon the project's outputs or collaborate with the project. The public can view and dynamically search over 790 completed risk management education project reports in the system. All funding applications to the regional Extension Risk Management Education Centers must research this database and describe how their proposed project will build upon or collaborate with prior work. 4. Collaborate with the regional centers to help ensure that risk management programs are delivered to underserved and disadvantaged producers, including special emphasis audiences of beginning farmers and ranchers, immigrant producers, producers transitioning their business to new operators, and producers converting production or marketing systems to pursue new markets. We facilitated a meeting with regional center directors and NIFA national program leaders responsible for 1890 and 1994 programs. 5. Provide leadership to the regional centers to develop and implement a national risk management education communications plan that will help producers, practitioners, and stakeholders learn about risk management education programs.The Digital Center continues to work with the regional centers to update their websites and to ensure consistent messaging. We led the ERME communications team for this period. We help coordinate participation at select national conferences to promote ERME. Social media sites have been incorporated on the Extension RME site. Extension RME now has Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Vimeo, Flickr, and Friendfeed websites. All of these social media sites are accessible from the national Extension RME website. 6. Improve the overall effectiveness of developing and delivering risk management education by supporting the four regional Risk Management Education Centers with technology issues and identifying and developing new technologies to deliver risk management education. The Digital Center has recently developed online review capabilities for funding panels and streamlined the overall electronic review of applications. We also developed the ability to provide reviewer comments to applicants in their Results Verification System account rather than via email. 7. Help improve the collaboration and coordination between the regional centers, and provide technical support to help conduct national Extension Risk Management Education conferences. The Digital Center continues to facilitate communication and consistency between regional centers and to coordinate center director meetings.
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