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five different areas - production, marketing,
financial, human resource, and legal - and delineated three specific actions to reach each goal.
Over the three months of classroom instruction,
extension educators worked closely with the participants to ensure they were understanding the
process and completing homework prior to the
next class. Funding for the project was from a
competitive grant prepared by NCIS and selected by the Northeast Extension Risk Management
Education Center (NERMEC), operated by the
University of Delaware. The NERMEC is funded
by USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). Laurence Crane was project director and primary instructor of this activity.

Rhode Island Nursery and
Landscape Association
Conference
NCIS participated as an exhibitor at the RINLA (Rhode Island Nursery and Landscape Association) Winter Meeting and Expo in West Kingston, R.I., in late January. More than 300 growers
and allied professionals from the green industry
attended the conference. Laurence Crane visited
with interested attendees about nursery insurance and WFRP. Participation in this conference
is a component of the Risk Management Education and Outreach that NCIS is conducting for
the University of Rhode Island Cooperative Extension as part of the Targeted States Program
funded by RMA. The purpose of the program is
to deliver crop insurance education and information to U.S. agricultural producers in states where
there traditionally is a low level of Federal crop
insurance participation and availability.

North Carolina Small
Farms Week
NCIS participated as a sponsor of North Carolina A&T State University Small Farms Week
Kickoff at the Sampson County Exposition
Center in Clinton, N.C., March 20. More than
200 participants attended the week-long series
of events recognizing the contributions small
farms make to the North Carolina farm economy
and promoting best management practices. The
morning was spent with speakers discussing contemporary issues facing agricultural producers in
that state with special emphasis on the challenges
and solutions for small farms to compete. The afternoon consisted of tours to three farms where
innovative and successful production practices
have been implemented, enabling these farms
to increase their profitability. Laurence Crane
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A delegation of Serbian Fellows visited NCIS on November 3 to learn about how crop insurance
works in the United States.

participated in the activities and discussed using
crop insurance as a tool to manage risk with interested participants.

Association of 1890 Research
Directors (ARD) Symposium
NCIS participated as a sponsor and exhibitor
in the 17th biennial 1890 ARD Symposium in Atlanta, Ga., in early April. The Association of 1890
Research Directors (ARD) is the federation of
the 19 autonomous 1890 land grant universities
that provides coordination of research initiatives
among member 1890 institutions in cooperation
with Federal, state, and private partners. The
symposium, which is held every other year, provides the opportunity for scientists and students
to present research papers and posters that share
innovative and practical research findings in the
food and agricultural sciences. The Symposium
attracted more than 1,000 registered participants
and more than 500 research papers and posters
were presented focusing on the theme of the
Symposium, "1890 Research: Meeting 21st Century Challenges Through Innovation." Laurence
Crane attended the event and discussed crop insurance career opportunities with students.

Extension Risk Management
Education National Conference
NCIS participated in the 2017 Extension Risk
Management Education National Conference in
Cincinnati, Ohio, which brought together more
than 250 private and public-sector educators,
crop insurance agents, lenders, and other agricultural professionals. The annual conference allows
this diverse group to share ongoing and emerging successful risk management education efforts
that target agricultural producers and their fam-

ilies. The 2016 risk management education project, directed by Laurence Crane in Mississippi
helping limited-resource farmers develop marketing plans, was selected for presentation. Laurence also provided an overview of other NCIS
outreach efforts.

Risk Management
Workshops-Alabama
NCIS partnered with extension educators at
Tuskegee University in Alabama to teach a series
of risk management planning workshops to limited-resource and socially disadvantaged farmers in
the Strike Force counties of Alabama. The objective was to help farmers and ranchers understand
their risk exposure and develop risk management
plans for their farms. This training consisted of a
series of three workshops and 60 hours of individualized instruction. NCIS conducted the three
workshops once per month in Tuskegee, Ala., in
March, April, and May. During the workshops,
each participant set risk management goals in
five different areas - production, marketing, financial, human resource, legal - and delineated
three specific actions to reach each goal. Over the
three months, local extension educators worked
individually with these producers to ensure they
took the fifteen actions and reached their goals.
Funding for the project was from a competitively awarded Cooperative Agreement with RMA.
Laurence Crane was project director and primary
instructor of this activity.

Marketing Planning
Workshops-North Carolina and
South Carolina
NCIS partnered with extension educators
at North Carolina A&T State University and



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