AgrAbility

2023 AgrAbility National Training Workshop

March 20-23 | Spokane, Washington

Conference Session Materials

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Monday, March 20th: 8 am – 6 pm

  • 9 am – 3:30 pm:  Mental Health First Aid – $60 fee- lunch included – Must register by March 1st
  • 12 pm – 4:00 pm: Introducing the Business Model Canvas as a Planning Tool
  • 1 pm – 4 pm:  New Staff Training
  • 1 pm – 4 pm:  Worksite Assessment, Secondary Injury, and AT Selection- $25 fee
  • 1 pm – 4 pm:  Offsite tour- Providence St. Luke’s Rehabilitation Medical Center $40 fee
  • 4:30 pm – 6 pm:  Poster Session and Reception Poster descriptions

 

Tuesday March 21st: 8 am – 5 pm                  

 

Wednesday, March 22nd: 8 am – 5 pm

Thursday, March 23rd: 8 am – 4 pm

OPTION 1 (Full Day Tour)  8 am-4 pm

Tour a beef cattle operation and discuss how they have managed to create a resilient operation by purchasing a meat processing facility and creating a boxed beef business that delivers across the northeast US.

OPTION 2 (Full Day Tour with ½ day drop off)  8 am-4 pm

Tour a family run farm, raising Piedmont cross cattle, and practice sustainably rotated crops and use no till practices; a farm designed for veterans to transition back into civilian life through careers in agriculture; drop off at the hotel; and a community supported, organic produce operation and CSA.

OPTION 3 (Full Day Tour)  8 am- 4 pm

Tour WSU Wilke Research Farm, a 320-acre research farm that grows different types of crops and shares their findings with farmers and scientists to help get optimal crop options and a Hutterian Colony that operates a beef operation and fully functioning farm experience that resembles farming in Switzerland 400 years ago.