Scholarships/Job Openings/Opportunities for Producers

Emerging Leaders Conference Scholarship

Due: February 25, 2011

Conference: June 1-3, 2011, Clearwater, FL

This scholarship is designed to allow public administration students and entry-level city and county management professionals interested in continuing their academic and professional development as professional public managers to attend the annual conference. For more information on the conference, visit their website or see the attached application.

 

Job opening: Leon County Office of Sustainability

Visit http://www.leoncountyfl.gov/HR/jobs/view_job.asp?req_id=917 for more information or contact Maggie Theriot, TheriotM@LeonCountyFL.gov

 

Job opening: Sustainability Leader for Washington University

Visit http://www.usgbc-stl.org/2010/11/new-position-posted-for-sustainability-director-at-washington-university-in-st-louis/ for more information or contact Jennifer Ochoa at 314-935-8641.

 

Job opening: Three openings with Pick Up America: PR Coordinator, Website & IT Manager, Biodiesel Brewmaster & Mechanic

Pick Up America seeks to fill three positions for yearlong on-the-road contracts in 2011.  For full details and to apply, click here.

 

USDA Environmental Quality Incentives Program Organic Initiative

Due: March 4, 2011

USDA has $50 million available for organic growers, those transitioning to organic farming systems, and exempt producers. The program provides financial and technical assistance to growers to implement conservation practices like cover cropping, pest management, crop rotation, stream buffers, hedgerow planting, and various other practices. Interested producers have until March 4, 2011, to sign up for the 2011 program. Visit the website for more information.

 

Canadian Organic Growers: New Handbooks available

Canadian Organic Growers has published a series of practical skills handbooks that incorporate the latest research, farmer profiles and farmer wisdom to pass on vital technical information. All of our publications are developed by experts and field tested by farmers. For more information, please visit our website at www.cog.ca, email us at publications@cog.ca or give us a call at 613-216-0741.

 

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition call for Farmers and Ranchers

The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) recently launched a new initiative to give farmers and ranchers more quality exposure to the media. The initiative consists of two parts: a media toolkit and other training resources to help farmers effectively present themselves to reporters (to “tell their story”), and a database of farmers and ranchers who are willing to make themselves available to the media for periodic interviews. For more information, visit the website or click here to sign up.

 

Happy Holidays!

 

Kelly Monaghan

kmon913@ufl.edu

Program Assistant

Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education-Florida (SARE)

University of Florida

3031 Mc Carty Hall D

PO Box 110310

Gainesville, FL 32611-0310

352.273.3508

352.392.8196 Fax