Webinars

Join us to hear from Curt Porterfield, Assistant Director for Facilities and Safety in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech, about risk management on the farm. Risk management is an essential way to protect your livelihood, ensure long-term sustainability, and prepare for unexpected challenges that could threaten your productivity and income. In this webinar you will learn about the types of agricultural risks, ways of assessing and prioritizing risks and developing a plan of action for minimizing risks. Key resources will be shared as well.

The whole farm plan is much more than a plan – it is a process for short-term and long-term decision making and evaluation that takes into consideration your whole farm. Following the whole farm planning process actively helps new and beginning farmers tailor farming goals and actions over time to best fit needs and preferences for long-term viability. Join us for this webinar where Dr. Kim Niewolny will walk you through the basics of whole farm planning and orient you to resources and support in developing your whole farm plan!

Jen Perkins, Coordinator at the Office of Farmland Preservation, provides an overview of the Virginia Farm Link Program and walks through the new website.