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2010 TELESEMINAR SCHEDULE:

Month	Time	101 Legal Aspects	102 Goat-Share Operations	103 Cow-Share Operations	104 Legal & Operations Forum
January	8:00 pm – 9:30 pm EST	7	14	21	28
April	1:00 pm – 2:30 pm EST	8	15	22	29
June	1:00 pm – 2:30 pm EST	3	10	17	24
October	1:00 pm – 2:30 pm EST	7	14	21	28

PRICE: Each teleseminar is $35.

DISCOUNT: Buy three for $95 or all four for $125

AUDIENCE: For farmers at all levels of cow/goat-share experience, and consumers who want to learn more about the topic.

METHOD: When it’s time for the teleseminar, just pick up the phone and dial the long distance number and password you’ll get after you register.  You’ll need long distance access and a touch tone phone to participate. During lectures, all callers will be placed on mute, to decrease background noise distractions. Participant interaction is encouraged during the Question & Answer sessions and the entire 104 session, which is totally devoted to interactive activity.

LONG DISTANCE CHARGES: Tuition does not include any applicable charges for your long distance call. Many of our participants use cell phones with free long distance. Another alternative is using a discount long distance service from a discounter like OneSuite.

CLASS SIZE: Teleseminars will have a minimum of 5 and maximum of 25 participants.

CURRICULUM: NEW EXPANDED CURRICULUM FOR 2010!

101 - Legal Basis for Share Operations - Pete Kennedy, Esq. 

102 - NEW! Goat-Share Operations  - Sharon Wilson

103 - Cow-Share Operations - Tim Wightman

104 - Legal & Operations Forum - Pete Kennedy, Esq, Sharon Wilson and Tim Wightman

CLASS DESCRIPTIONS:

101 – LEGAL BASIS FOR SHARE OPERATIONS (Cow & Goat-Shares)
Pete Kennedy, Esq. presents a legal overview of share operations and a discussion of the differences between the various types (cow/goat, herd or farm-shares). 

(1 hour lecture and 30 minutes questions and answers)

102 – OPERATIONS (Goat-Shares)
Past attendees with goat-shares asked for their own class focusing on goats. Beginners and experienced goat-share operators will benefit from Sharon Wilson’s advice, including important aspects to consider before starting, solutions to common problems and sure-fire ways to improve both quality and profitability. 

(1 hour lecture and 30 minutes questions and answers)

103 – OPERATIONS (Cow-Shares)
Beginners and experienced cow-share operators will benefit from Tim Wightman’s advice, including important aspects to consider before starting, solutions to common problems and sure-fire ways to improve both quality and profitability. 

(1 hour lecture and 30 minutes questions and answers)

104 – LEGAL & OPERATIONS FORUM (Cow & Goat-Shares)
A favorite of past attendees - A lively forum hosted by Tim Wightman, Sharon Wilson and Pete Kennedy, Esq. for getting your most important legal and operations questions answered. 

(1 hour and 30 minutes open question and answer forum)

INSTRUCTORS:

Pete Kennedy, Esq. is an attorney and President, Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund and VP, Farm-to-Consumer Foundation. He works on dairy issues, particularly, the right of farmers to distribute raw milk and raw milk products direct to consumers. Each week, he helps farmer members of the Fund with cow or goat-share operation start-ups. He compiled the state raw milk laws and state raw milk summaries posted a RealMilk.com. He is currently working with others to challenge the federal ban on the interstate shipment of raw milk for human consumption.

Tim Wightman is President, Farm-to-Consumer Foundation and founding board member for the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund. He has pioneered CSAs, organic cooperatives, farmers’ markets, the cow-share program and the farm-share program while living in Northern Wisconsin. Tim consults worldwide with dairy farmers on cow-shares, raw milk safety and direct marketing and is the author of the “Raw Milk Production Handbook”.

Sharon Wilson is a charter member and currently Treasurer, Raw Milk Association of Colorado (RMAC).  She is the owner, operator of Natural Choice Dairy, LLC a goat herd-share in Colorado.  As a Board member of RMAC, she has been helping to create test standards for goats along with product standards and recommended process standards. Sharon has been consulting other potential goat share operations in and out of state for the last five years.

REGISTER:

Register online or call 703-208-FARM (3276) Monday- Friday 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Eastern. 

Immediately after registering, you’ll receive an email with the toll-free number and password you’ll need to participate in the classes.