Cow Shares
June 5 - Special Open Forum Legal/Goats Legal Aspects of Share Arrangements and Production Practices for Raw Goat Dairy Producers and Consumers Special Open Forums in June - Register Now for June 5th Legal/Goat Forum. Join us by phone from the convenience of your home! (513) 593-9430 Email Want to legally distribute or obtain raw milk? Scaling down your herd? A share operation may be the answer you've been looking for. Before diving in, take advantage of experienced legal and operations advice. Register Now to participate in these 90-minute teleseminars! Jun 5: Special Open Forum Legal/Goats - deadline June 4 Legal Aspects of Share Arrangements and Production Practices for Raw Goat Dairy Producers and Consumers Jun 19: Special Open Forum Legal/Cows - watch for details Legal Aspects of Share Arrangements and Production Practices for Raw Cow Dairy Producers and Consumers Next 4-Part Teleseminar Series - watch for details Aug 7 -101 - LEGAL ASPECTS with Pete Kennedy, Esq. Aug 14 -102 - GOAT-SHARE OPERATIONS with Sharon Wilson Aug 21 - 103 - COW-SHARE OPERATIONS with Tim Wightman Aug 28 - 104 - LEGAL & OPERATIONS FORUM with all three Here's your chance as farmers and consumers to get your legal and operations questions answered. Participation is limited to the first 25 registrants. Register Online or Call 513-593-9430 The cost is just $35 per session. Click here for more details! PAYMENT INFORMATION You may register and pay online by debit or credit card using PayPal for Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American Express or your PayPal account. If you have any questions or to pay by phone, call 513-593-9430 or send email to learn@f2cfnd.org. If you prefer to pay by check (made payable to FTCF), you must call first to register and then send your payment to: Farm-to-Consumer Foundation, 2692 Madison Road, Ste N1-371, Cincinnati, OH 45208, 513-593-9430, fax 513-766-7983 TELESEMINARS 101 - LEGAL BASIS FOR SHARE OPERATIONS (Cow & Goat-Shares) Pete Kennedy presents a legal overview of share operations and a discussion of the differences between the various types (cow/goat, herd or farm-shares). 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. 103 - OPERATIONS (Cow-Shares) Tim Wightman offers advice, including important aspects to consider before starting a cow-share, solutions to common problems and sure-fire ways to improve both quality and profitability. 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. TELESEMINAR HOSTS Pete Kennedy is an attorney in Sarasota, Florida and serves as the President of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund (www.farmtoconsumer.org) and Vice President of the Foundation. He works on dair issues, particularly, the right of farmers to distribute raw milk and raw milk products direct to consumers. Each week he helps members of the Fund with cow- or goat-share operation start-ups. The Raw Milk Nation Map was derived from Pete's compilation of the original state raw milk laws and state raw milk summaries posted at www.realmilk.com. Sharon Wilson owns and operates a goat herd share in Colorado (Natural Choice Dairy, LLC) and currently serves as Treasurer of the Raw Milk Association of Colorado (RMAC). 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 six years. Tim Wightman is a farmer on sabbatical and serves as the President of the Foundation and was a founding Board member of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund. He pioneered CSAs, organic cooperatives, farmers' markets, the cow-share program and the farm-share program while living in northern Wisconsin. Tim has operated and designed raw milk dairy farms in several states and now lives in New Hampshire. He consults worldwide with dairy farmers on cow shares, raw milk safety and direct marketing and is the author of the Raw Milk Production Handbook and the presenter in "From Grass to the Glass - Chore Time" DVD. View them online FREE at www.farmtoconsumerfoundation.org/fsr A minimum of ten (10) registered participants is required to convene the teleseminar; if for some reason this minimum is not met and the session is canceled, you may request a refund or rollover to the next scheduled session or series. 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