Agricultural Leaders Join Farmer Veteran Coalition Board of Directors

Farmer Veteran Coalition has named its first official board of directors, comprised of leaders of the national farming and agricultural community.

Davis, CA (PRWEB) April 03, 2013

The Farmer Veteran Coalition (FVC) has announced that it has filed articles of incorporation and will seat its first official board of directors. The board is comprised of leaders from national farm organizations, academia, the military and the Farmer Veteran community. An organization dedicated to veteran assistance, FVC was started in 2009 by organic farming pioneer Michael O?Gorman and has grown into a network of veterans pursuing careers in agriculture in 48 states, Puerto Rico and Guam.

The mission of the Farmer Veteran Coalition is to mobilize veterans to feed America. It provides practical skills education, career counseling and one-on-one coaching to prepare veterans to become farmers. In addition, the organization offers the Farmer Veteran Fellowship Fund, a small grants program that targets disabled veterans and those who have recently returned from service, assisting them to heal from service-related injuries in a productive farm environment.

The Chair of the new board is Gary Matteson, Vice President of Farm Credit Council for Young, Beginning and Small Farmers. Farm Credit Council is the national trade association representing the Farm Credit System. ?Veterans have character and possess unique skills that they can transfer into meaningful careers in agriculture. After their sacrifice and service to our nation, veterans are continuing to serve by joining the ranks of America?s farmers,? said Matteson.

Retired Brigadier General and fourth-generation Missouri farmer, Charles Kruse will serve as Vice Chair. General Kruse served for 18 years as President of the Missouri Farm Bureau. ?As a life-long farmer and having served 26 years in the military, I am proud to be involved in an effort to help veterans become involved in Agriculture. They have stepped up and served us; now it is our turn to serve them.?

Larry Jacobs, Co-Founder and Owner of Jacobs Farm/Del Cabo, one of the nation?s leading organic vegetable and fresh herb companies, and Founder and CEO of Farm Fuel LLC, will serve as Secretary. Poppy Davis will serve as Treasurer. Ms. Davis is the past national program leader for Small Farms and Beginning Farmers and Ranchers at the USDA, where she co-founded the USDA for Veterans Reservists and Military Families workgroup.

Donn Teske, President of the Kansas Farmers Union, will serve as the Representative-at-Large to the Executive Committee. Teske is a fifth-generation family farmer from Northeast Kansas where he raises organic soybeans, grain sorghum, red clover, wheat and oats.

Board Member Stan Flemming is a retired Brigadier General, Ambassador to the United States Army Reserves, and practices medicine outside Fort Lewis, WA. Ambassador Flemming noted that ?FVC fulfills a vital role in the veteran outreach community by providing access to critical services for our men and women who serve our nation with distinction, but who reside in our rural communities where resources are typically scarce or unavailable. They deserve no less than those who reside in our urban communities.?

Other Board Members include:

• ????Garrett Dwyer, cattle rancher and veteran with the US Marine Corps. Garrett received his degree in Agriculture Production at Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture after returning from Iraq and now co-owns and operates a cow/calf operation on the family ranch in Bartlett, Nebraska.
• ????Dr. Bill Field, Ed.D, Purdue University, Executive Director of the National AgrAbility Project. AgrAbility was formed to help farmers with disabilities succeed in agriculture. Many of its 27 statewide affiliates are working with combat-disabled Iraq and Afghanistan War veterans pursuing careers in farming.
• ????Kathleen Hadley, Executive Director of the National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) and their signature program, ATTRA. ATTRA serves as a national information service for sustainable farming and small-scale farming ventures.
• ????Tasha M. Hargrove, Ph.D., Assistant to the Dean for Outreach, College of Agriculture, at Tuskegee University, in Alabama. Dr. Hargrove is a Ph.D. from Iowa State University in Agriculture Extension Education and a retired Master Sergeant in the United States Air Force Reserves.
• ????Weldon Sleight, Ph.D., Dean Emeritus of Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture (NCTA). Dr. Sleight oversaw the school?s 100 Acre/100 Cow and Combat Boots to Cowboy Boots programs, which assists beginning farmers and military veterans with building farm ownership.

To learn more about Farmer Veteran Coalition and its commitment to veterans in transition, visit http://www.farmvetco.org/

About Farmer Veteran Coalition

The mission of the Farmer Veteran Coalition (FVC) is to mobilize veterans to feed America. Its farming education programs and charitable projects include a small grants program; a program to collect and distribute used farm equipment; a Resource Guide for Veteran Careers in Agriculture; an annual conference for women veterans in Agriculture; and educational, training and veteran employment assistance programs.

FVC has operated as a project of Community Partners of Los Angeles since 2009 and will continue under the fiscal umbrella of Community Partners until the incorporation process is completed sometime later this year.

Adrian Ott
Farmer-Veteran Coalition
(530) 756-1395
Email Information

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/agricultural-leaders-join-farmer-veteran-coalition-board-directors-173625388.html

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This Herald story about Australian research into cyclists flouting red lights at intersections is interesting. But what really caught my eye was this sentence about halfway down: "In addition, some cyclists infringed when they were riding across the pedestrian crossing, as they would cross as a pedestrian, effectively jay-cycling."

Now, I'm not saying I've never slipped through a left turn against a red light at an empty intersection. But I really don't make a habit of it.

On the other hand, I frequently join Auckland's Northwestern cycleway into the city at St Lukes Road. That means a right turn at the lights by Motat, and a little push up the overbridge. The overbridge has high kerbs and is thus not very cyclist-friendly, especially in traffic. So I'll always try to come up to the front of a queue at the lights and put on a little sprint to get up to the lights on the other side.

Again, if necessary,?I'll look to weave through the stationary cars to pole position. When the lights change, I'm ready to slip over a three-metre marked pedestrian crossing to join the cycleway. I'll be looking at the left-turning traffic coming up the motorway off-ramp, to determine whether they're keen on stopping for me. Most are, and when they do, I always, always acknowledge their courtesy.

The one thing I don't do is get off my bike. That would be irksome, it might hold up traffic and it might even be dangerous. It would thus break my Main Rule of Cycling:

Don't die.

But that, my well-wheeled friends assure me, is an infringement of the Road Code. I should dismount in traffic and wheel my bike over an island and across the crossing to a dual-use path. Yes, the crossing is legally, speaking, solely for walkers, but it spans a public road and a path for both walkers and cyclists.

Yes, there is an abysmally-marked dual-use path on the left of the overbridge, but to use it, a truly observant rider on my route would have to dismount repeatedly at short crossings to join the cycleway -- and mind out for pedestrians using the same space.

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No one does this.

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In a city where shared use is working in various settings -- even allowing cars and walkers to peacefully co-exist -- it seems to me there's a case for sensibly allowing shared use of some of the painted spaces on the road. I know there has been plenty of thinking done on this and I'll leave y'all to quote it ...

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O'Reilly Explodes At Laura Ingraham For Disagreeing With His 'Thump The Bible' Comments

Bill O'Reilly exploded at conservative radio host Laura Ingraham Tuesday over her criticism of his argument that gay marriage advocates have a "more compelling" case than gay marriage opponents. O'Reilly claimed last week that opponents simply "thump the Bible" and the biblical argument wasn't strong enough against reasonable logic that gay Americans just want to be treated like everyone else.

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