In the News -
December 2007
Rural Life Conference Set for February 8
The 52nd annual Rural Life Conference is scheduled for Friday, February 8, 2008,
at the Isaac S. Hathaway-John M. Howard Fine Arts Center on the University of
Arkansas at Pine Bluff campus.
Registration begins at 7:30 a.m. in the lobby of the Fine Arts Center with
the opening session at 8:45 a.m. The conference theme is "Changing the Economic
Landscape: Strengthening Families, and Transforming Communities and Small
Farms."
This years' program features nine workshops; some will be concurrent.
Scheduled workshops include the following:
- Soybean marketing and production - Production practices for
high yields; and risk management/marketing strategies to capture
high soybean prices.
- Organic farming and products, and pesticide recordkeeping.
- Fish health - Import controversies.
- Estate planning - Holding on to the land.
- Financial planning - Credit restoration/debt reduction.
- Financial benefits from conservation programs and crop
insurance for producers.
- Health and Quality of Life - Status of minority health -
Arkansas perspective; practical ways to control cost of health
care in at-risk populations.
- Family Preservation; strengthening families - preparing
today's youth for strong family ties.
- Are You Ready? - Preparing for new and emerging infectious
diseases.
Preregistration is requested of everyone even though the conference is free
to farmers, homemakers and retirees. The cost to professionals and agency
personnel is $50; after January 22, it will be $75.
To preregister or for more information, contact Kellye Luckett at (870)
575-8817 or email luckettk@uapb.edu.
December 14, 2007By: Carol Sanders
Writer/editor
UAPB School of Agriculture
Fisheries and Human Sciences
(870) 575-7238
sanders_c@uapb.edu
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