Sheldon, Iowa — Fifteen local women have graduated from an agricultural business course focused on women holding the reigns of farm operations.
Iowa State University Extension and Outreach O’Brien County and Sioux County facilitated the course, called “Annie’s Project”, focusing on empowering women in agriculture.
The six-session series provided training and resources in five key management areas: financial, human resources, legal, marketing, and production. Extension officials say the course enables women to learn from other women who are experts in their field, whether that be crop insurance, livestock marketing or something else.
Annie’s Project participants included:
· Dawn Blochowitz, Sibley
· Amie Croatt, Melvin
· Valery Fuhrman, Cleghorn
· Karen Hielkema, Sibley
· Jill Jurgensen, Sutherland
· Kiley Kaufman, Peterson
· Lois Klarenbeek, Rock Valley
· Laura Lunders, Cleghorn
· Patty Lunders, Cleghorn
· Jeanna Morgan, Merrill
· Jodi Nasers, Sibley
· Monique Schiebout, Orange City
· Adri Ann Smit, Hospers
· Sarah Smith, Marcus
· Robyn Van Wyk, Sioux Center
· Kim Winter, Sheldon
For further information on Annie’s Project, they say you can visit http://www.extension.iastate.edu/womeninag/ or contact Gary Wright, farm management specialist with ISU Extension and Outreach at 712-223-1574.
Photo caption (from left to right): Lois Klarenbeek, Rock Valley; Karen Hielkema, Sibley; Laura Lunders, Cleghorn; Amie Croatt, Melvin; Patty Lunders, Cleghorn; Adri Ann Smit, Hospers; Jill Jurgensen, Sutherland; Robyn Van Wyk, Sioux Center; Valery Fuhrman, Cleghorn; Jodi Nasers, Sibley; Jeanna Morgan, Merrill; Kim Winter, Sheldon; Monique Schiebout, Orange City; Dawn Blochowitz, Sibley; Kiley Kaufman, Peterson.
