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Seminar For Beginning Dairy, Livestock Farmers Offered In Freeport

University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Wolfe’s Neck Farm are partnering with the Wisconsin School for Beginning Dairy and Livestock Farmers to offer a seminar focused on business planning. UMaine Extension professor Rick Kersbergen will facilitate the class geared for beginning pasture-based dairy and livestock farmers.
 
The weekly course will be offered remotely at Wolfe’s Neck Farm, 184 Burnett Road, Freeport, from noon to 2:15 p.m. Nov. 12, 2015 until March 2016. The Wisconsin School for Beginning Dairy and Livestock Farmers is the host organization. Course fee is $300. For more information, to apply and to request a syllabus or disability accommodation, contact Kersbergen at 342.5971, richard.kersbergen@maine.edu.
 

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