October 20: 90 minutes (9 AM Pacific, 10 AM Mountain, 11 AM Central, 12 Noon, Eastern)

Norm Dalsted and an attorney, both with several years of experience working with farm families on bankruptcy, will focus on bankruptcy issues.

To Participate Live in the Webinars: (no pre-registration is required – first come – 500 seats available)
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Presenters Brief Descriptions (Complete bios are found at http://www.farmmanagement.org/aginuncertaintimes/)

Dave Goeller, an Extension Economist at the University of Nebraska,
Lincoln, began his Extension experience working with farm and ranch
families during the ag crises of the 80’s.  His work has focused since
on assisting agricultural producers experiencing “financial
difficulties” to work through their problems and evaluate their
options, providing business succession and estate planning alternatives
and transfer strategies for the “Ownership” generation, and assisting
beginning farmers and ranchers develop a plan to enter the field of
production agriculture.

Jay Gordon is Executive Director of the Washington State Dairy Federation and a dairy farmer.

Elaine Froese (http://www.elainefroese.com/)
is an expert in helping family businesses talk about tough issues.
She's a catalyst for courageous conversations for positive farm
succession planning. Like many of her clients, Elaine is an active
farmer and  she watches the sky. Her common sense and down to earth
style of communicating and asking hard questions is deeply appreciated
by folks who find it hard to ask for help. Elaine also mediates for the
Farm Debt Mediation Service.

Michael Rosmann is a clinical psychologist and the executive director
of AgriWellness, Inc., a nonprofit organization that provides
behavioral health support to the agricultural population in seven upper
Midwestern states.  Dr. Rossman also works to address the behavioral
health care needs of agricultural populations and communities and to
provide education about these needs.

Jeff Tranel is an Agricultural and Business Management Economist with
Colorado State University Extension and Department of Agricultural and
Resource Economics. His professional interests focus primarily in farm
and family financial management, risk management, accounting and record
keeping, income taxes, and water management. His involvment with farm
families in financial stress began during the farm crises of the 80’s.

Norm Dalsted, Professor of Agricultural Economics, Colorado State
University, has a number of years of experience  helping families work
through Chapter 11 and Chapter 12 reorganizations.

Ruth Hambleton, Founder of Annie’s Project and president of Annie’s
Project—Education for Farm Women, empowering farm women to be better
business partners through networks and by managing and organizing
critical information, retired after 30 plus years with University of
Illinois Extension. She is a farmer’s daughter and married a farmer.
Ruth and her husband of 31 years raised three children on a 40 acre
hog, beef and hay farm.  Ruth is working with her sister and two
brothers to help their father manage his 320 acres of farmland in north
central Illinois.

Robert Fetsch is an Extension Specialist and Professor in the
Department of Human Development & Family Studies at Colorado State
University and is the director of the Colorado AgrAbility Project. He
was raised on a small dairy farm. He has been working with farm and
ranch families to assist them in improving their communication skills
since 1985.

The Ag in uncertain times . . . webinar series runs through December with
• Families facing uncertainty in agriculture, October 7, 14, 20, and 21
• Operating in risky environments, November 4, 11, and 18
• Pulling it all together: Managing Ag Enterprises in Uncertain times, December 2, 9, and 16

All webinars and slide presentations from the June and September series are available for viewing at  http://www.farmmanagement.org/aginuncertaintimes/. All slides presentations for the current series are posted on the day of the webinar on this same website.

For additional information email, westrme@wsu.edu or call  509-477-2196.

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Jon Newkirk, Extension Economist and Western Center Director
Washington State University Extension
Western Center for Risk Management Education
222 N Havana
Spokane, WA  99202
jnewkirk@wsu.edu