2010 Century Farm & Ranch and Summer Ag Institute applications open

Applications are now being accepted for the 2010 award year of the Century Farm & Ranch Program, a statewide recognition program honoring farmers and ranchers who have worked the same land for at least 100 years. Applications are also available for the Sesquicentennial Award, introduced by the Program in 2008, honoring families with farms or ranches continuously worked for 150 years or more.

June 1, 2010 is the application deadline.

download the application guidelines from the Oregon Department of Agriculture website.

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A project of the Oregon Agricultural Education Foundation, the Summer Ag Institute (SAI) is a three-credit, week-long, graduate-level class through Oregon State University that educates K-12 teachers with little or no background in agriculture. The goal of SAI is to help educators use agriculture as a context for teaching standard subjects like science, math, social studies, and English.

Through SAI, teachers are given first-hand experiences in the agriculture industry.

2010 SAI DATES

Session #1: June 20-25 in Corvallis
Session 1 contact: Allette Hornung or call 541-791-4647

Session #2: July 11-16 in Union/La Grande
Session 2 contact: Jana Dick or call 541-562-5129, ext. 22

Download the SAI Application.

Download a fact sheet about Summer Ag Institute

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