WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The National AgrAbility Project (NAP), headquartered at Purdue College, invitations farmers, ranchers and agriculture professionals to the 2024 AgrAbility Nationwide Coaching Workshop in Atlanta, Georgia, to handle problems with incapacity in agriculture.
“Veterans signify a major share of AgrAbility purchasers,” mentioned Paul Jones, challenge supervisor of NAP. “This yr’s keynote speaker is Mike Reynolds, a Georgia AgrAbility shopper who efficiently transitioned from the navy to farming and based Hero Agriculture, a nonprofit that helps different veterans discover their ‘subsequent mission’ in agriculture.”
Deployed to Iraq as a medic in 2009, Reynolds ran the Emergency Response Heart at Joint Base Balad. After being wounded in motion and sustaining a traumatic mind harm, he was medically discharged from the navy and ultimately found farming as a type of remedy. His group helps veterans in related circumstances.
Convention breakout periods will cowl matters similar to farm stress, assistive agriculture expertise, and assist for veteran and starting farmers. Attendees could have the chance to tour the Shepherd Heart, a world-renowned rehabilitation facility; a Kubota Manufacturing plant; a mushroom farm; a sheep farm run by an AgrAbility shopper who has a spinal twine harm; and a textile manufacturing facility.
The convention will happen March 25-28 on the Grand Hyatt Atlanta in Buckhead. Early fowl pricing ends Feb. 23, with convention registration ending March 18. The whole convention schedule, pricing particulars and lodge data can be found online.
Historically recognized for serving to these with bodily disabilities achieve entry to assistive applied sciences, AgrAbility continues to evolve to satisfy the wants of underserved populations similar to veterans and caregivers. Join with AgrAbility on social media to study the most recent about assistive applied sciences, sources, security ideas, data, and extra.
First licensed within the 1990 Farm Invoice (with funding appropriations starting in 1991), AgrAbility is a grant-funded program by the U.S. Division of Agriculture’s Nationwide Institute of Meals and Agriculture. Every challenge should contain a collaboration between a land-grant college and a minimum of one nonprofit incapacity companies group.
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Author/Media contact: Ashvini Malshe, 765-496-7480, malshea@purdue.edu
Supply: Paul Jones, 765-494-1221, jonesp@purdue.edu
Agricultural Communications: 765-494-8415;
Maureen Manier, Division Head, mmanier@purdue.edu
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