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Attra Final Report 2019-2020 ATTRA FINAL REPORT 2019-2020 SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas Program RB-17-06 Annual Performance Report for Public Distribution April 24, 2019 – May 15, 2020 Submitted to: USDA Rural Business – Cooperative Service 1400 Independence Avenue, SW Washington, DC 20250 Submitted by: National Center for Appropriate Technology Background he ATTRA program was created in the New Hampshire; Jackson, Mississippi; and Check, 1985 Farm Bill and has been reauthorized Virginia. Each offi ce covers a region of the U.S.: T in all subsequent Farm Bills. ATTRA is Montana covers the northwestern U.S., Arkansas housed within the USDA’s Rural Business- covers the southeast, California covers the west, Cooperative Service (RBS) and managed by the Texas covers the southwest, New Hampshire National Center for Appropriate Technology covers the northeast, Mississippi covers the (NCAT) through a cooperative agreement with Gulf States region, and Virginia covers the mid- USDA/RD. This national program strives to off er Atlantic region. Additionally, NCAT has remote improved access to scientifi cally sound, under- offi ces in Durango, Colorado, and Dallas, standable, and practical information to commercial Pennsylvania. agriculture producers by responding to client This report covers the performance period of requests received via national toll-free telephone April 24, 2019, through May 15, 2020. lines, postal mail, email, online chat, Facebook, Twitter, other social media, and conferences. Historically, the producers who access the ATTRA’s COVID-19 services most frequently are family-scale, small- Response scale, beginning, limited-resource, and returning veteran farmers. ATTRA’s external evaluator In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the reports that the median age of commercial ATTRA program rapidly pivoted to serve producers accessing ATTRA technical assistance the nation’s farming community with additional and resources is 45, and 40% are women needs resulting from the crisis. We have commercial producers. Assistance is provided to established a COVID resource page on our ATTRA clients in a variety of ways, including telephone website, comprised of timely, relevant farming conversations and responses; emailed/mailed and ranching resources that are updated technical responses and publications; other regularly. NCAT’s ATTRA Agriculture Specialists electronic information dissemination; in-person are producing videos and blogs to connect education through workshops, conferences, farmers and agricultural professionals with and one-on-one meetings; self-help publications real-time solutions to these challenging times. and tutorials; and other appropriate outreach NCAT’s ATTRA specialists are providing technical methods, including social media. assistance, peer-to-peer learning, and workshops electronically throughout the nation. Additionally, Work carried out under ATTRA is accomplished NCAT has made all ATTRA publications and among all of NCAT’s offi ces, located in Butte, resources free on the ATTRA website. We Montana (headquarters); Fayetteville, Arkansas; understand these are trying times for the nation Davis, California; San Antonio, Texas; Keene, and our food and farming systems are critical. — COVID-19 Message For ATTRA — During these times of uncertainty amid the COVID-19 pandemic, NCAT’s ATTRA Sustainable Agriculture program continues to serve the nation’s farming community. We have established a COVID resource page on our ATTRA website, which will be updated regularly. Our Agriculture Specialists are producing a series of videos and blogs to connect you with real-time solutions to these challenging times. NCAT is also collaborating with partners across the nation to hear from farmers in farmer listening sessions and will consolidate and share broadly information on challenges, opportunities, and innovation. Stay tuned for more! Please reach out to us and let us know how we can better serve you at: [email protected] or 800-346-9140. Wishing for the best of health for all, Your NCAT Team ATTRA is a program of the National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) 1 Task #1: Provide Technical Assistance to Support the Rural Workforce rom April 24, 2019 – May 15, 2020, NCAT • Montana : provided technical assistance to a F specialists assisted clients 47,838 times with farmer on current organic systems, rotations, and technical assistance materials. In 2,184 cases, the weed control practices and provided information technical assistance required more extensive research. about regional grain elevators that have modifi ed operations to handle organic fi eld crops. Some examples include: • Northeast : provided technical assistance to • Texas : provided technical assistance to a a vegetable producer on weed control and rancher on how to start integrating adaptive fl ame weeding. multi-paddock grazing. • NCAT-ATTRA’s regenerative grazing expert provided technical guidance and resources : provided technical assistance • Pacifi c Northwest to a rancher in Oklahoma regarding intensive grazing. and information on cover cropping for each season to a rancher who has a pastured sheep operation. • Midwest: provided technical assistance to a farmer on pasture over seeding—what seed • Montana : assisted a farmer in reading a Haney varieties to use and what equipment works best. soil test, and called the company to understand unclear results, reporting back to the farmer. • NCAT-ATTRA’s fruit and orchard expert provided assistance to farmers nationwide on • Midwest : provided assistance to an organic grain heirloom varieties, propagation, blackberry rust, farmer on the price elasticity of organic grains as Asian pear problems, pest control, and more. it relates to revenue protection insurance. • NCAT-ATTRA’s whole-farm revenue protection expert provided assistance assisted a vegetable farmer with • Northeast : and guidance on whole-farm and crop insurance implements that can help her transition to no-till to farmers throughout the U.S. and provided information on a new compost spreader. • In Arkansas, NCAT-ATTRA's livestock specialist • South : provided technical assistance to an orchard provided watering information and options for farmer on successfully propagating persimmons. pasture raised pigs to a livestock farmer. 2 ATTRA Final Report 2019-2020 • www.attra.ncat.org Task #2: Outreach Website esources were accessed during this – Montana Farmers Market COVID-19 Q&A Rreporting period 3,348,790 times, – COVID-19 National Forum: Financial Relief for Farmers with 1,388,719 visits. – Farming During COVID-19: A Webinar on Adapting During Crisis, CA and national Outreach Materials – Farmer Veteran National COVID-19 Listening Session – NCAT & Wallace Center National Food Hub/ Voices from the Field podcast series • Farmer Listening Session 52 new podcasts; 860,876 podcast listens – NCAT & Virginia Biological Farming Association during project year Farmer Listening Session for Mid-Atlantic Farmers • We created 61 new videos and webinars – Latino Farmer Workshop, Ontario, CA with a total of 130,502 views – MS Alcorn Small Farmers Conference • Weekly Harvest newsletter – California Small Farm Conference 15,803 subscribers (distributed weekly) – 37th Annual Georgia Farmers Conference – Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable • Cosecha Mensual Spanish e-newsletter Agriculture Conference 2,780 subscribers (distributed monthly) – Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group Conference, AR Workshops and – 2020 Texas Organic Farmer and Gardener Conferences Association Conference – New England Vegetable & Fruit Conference • ATTRA agricultural specialists – Missouri Livestock Symposium have attended/presented at 155 workshops or – Iowa Organic Conference; 19th Annual conferences, reaching a total of 52,521 people. – Farmer Veteran Coalition Conference, TX • Due to shelter-in-place orders and – MS Alcorn State University Women in Agriculture social isolation of the COVID-19 Conference pandemic, NCAT’s Agriculture Specialists were able to rapidly pivot to using online systems to provide work- shops, listening sessions, and technical assistance to farmers, ranchers, and agriculture professionals. • Sampling of both virtual and in-person events: – Five Guidelines to Improve Soil Health and Water Holding Capacity in Texas Photo: CA Alliance of Farmers Markets ATTRA is a program of the National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) 3 Task #2: Outreach Workshops and Conferences (continued) • Promoted USDA Rural Development – NCAT also continued to promote Beyond Fresh: Programs and USDA Collaboration a Food Processing Guide for Texas Farmers workbook. This workbook features and promotes – Rural Development in Montana participated on the Value-Added Producer Grant Program, Rural the Soil Health Innovations Conference steering Cooperative Development Grant, Community committee, and USDA-RD in Washington, D.C., Facilities Loan & Grant, Business & Industry Loan has helped identify speakers, including assisting Guarantees, Intermediary Relending Program, with inviting Secretary Perdue to speak at Rural Business Development Grants, Rural Business Investment Program, Rural Economic the conference. Development Loan & Grant, and Rural – USDA-RD representatives spoke at the Armed Microentrepreneur Assistance. to Farm training in Crawfordsville, Indiana, in May 2019. – The Cleveland Armed to Urban Farm training in September 2019 featured presentations from Ohio and Wisconsin USDA-Rural Development on ways farmers can work together and create cooperatives. – In
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