Bringing Agritourism to RFD TV
American Agri Women, with the assistance of Chris Wilson, recently received a grant of $175,000 from the USDA Risk Management Agency to record 13, half-hour television programs for RFD TV featuring topics of interest for farm women and family farms.
As we know, farm women are busy ladies and often don’t have the time to attend state or regional meetings to hear the featured speakers on topics relevant to their farm businesses. That is the reason why the American Farm Women association is producing these shows. The RFD series will cover a different topic in each program. The topics will include farm taxes, estate planning, intergenerational farm transfer, commodity markets etc.
I am pleased to tell you that yesterday I was interviewed for the program on my favorite topic, agritourism and direct farm marketing. Kathy Patton, a former farm broadcaster, is the host of the program, and we talked about how farm women can start a new farm based business – agritourism.
The broadcasts are scheduled to start in June, and each program will air four times during the week.
I think it was great coup for this group to receive the grant to bring these important topics right into the home for farm family viewing. The exact schedule of shows will be posted on American Agri Women, and I will certainly be letting you know when the agritourism show will air.
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