According to the September edition of the RAWMI Ripple Newsletter, there will be more RAWMI farmer training events in North America.
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 5-8 February 2020:
RAWMI will be providing a 3.5 hour presentation on raw milk risk management at the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA) conference. This conference is February 5-8, 2020 in Lancaster Pennsylvania. Mark McAfee, Sarah Smith, Dr. Joseph Heckman, and Edwin Shank will be presenting at this event.
Utah, USA, 9 February 2020:
RAWMI will be providing a 2 hour presentation on raw milk risk management at the Utah Farm and Food Conference on February 9, 2020. This conference is in Cedar City, Utah. Mark McAfee will be presenting at this event.
RAWMI has applied to present at several other upcoming conferences. RAWMI is also working on a web-based version of the raw milk risk management training, for farmers and others who aren't able to attend training in-person. Training presentations from two September 2019 events were recorded on video, to allow RAWMI to soon have a training video available for all raw milk farmers and prospective farmers. Sign up to their newsletter and Facebook page for the latest updates.
According to a 31st October newsletter, there will be two January events as well.
Massachusetts, 11 January 2020
New York, 18 January 2020
These will be shorter and serve more as an introduction on the topic of low-risk raw milk, whereas the Pennsylvania and Utah presentations will be half-day workshops that dig into the details of how to produce low-risk raw milk.