RR Webinar – Enterprise Risk Analysis

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Tuesday – August 29th
Start Time is 10A Mountain Time
9:00A Pacific – 10:00A Mountain – 11:00A Central – 12:00P Eastern

NO registration required
Log in to the webinar room 10 minutes prior at: https://connect.extension.iastate.edu/RightRisk
 
Enterprise risk is variability or uncertainty that arises at the enterprise level of management. At this level of management, most operators are focused on the implications of decisions made for a single enterprise or commodity, rather than the whole farm or ranch. Many, if not most, day-to-day management decisions are about the details of enterprise management.

Join us to learn more about the management of enterprise risk, a process to assist with risk identification right through to implementing treatment. Along the way learn about RightRisk Analytics tools for risk analysis, how to evaluate treatment effectiveness and the success of your risk management strategy.

 
 

Bought to you by:
USDA Risk Management Agency
and The RightRisk Team

RR Webinar – Risk Adjusted Machinery & Field Operation Costs

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Thursday – April 16th
Start Time is Noon Mountain Time

11:00A Pacific – 12:00P Mountain – 1:00P Central – 2:00P Eastern

NO registration required
Log in to the webinar room 10 minutes prior at: https://connect.extension.iastate.edu/RightRisk
 

This webinar will cover the application of the Machine Risk Calculator tool, a cost estimator for calculating the cost of operation for:
– power units,
– implements,
– vehicles, and
– irrigation equipment

The software and associated guide may also be used to calculate the cost of field operations, including: up to three (3) implements, four (4) operating inputs, operator labor, and a return to management.

Finally, the software also allows calculates a probability distribution for costs per acre for variable depreciation, opportunity interest, taxes+housing+insurance, repairs, fuel + oil, total operating inputs, operator labor, or return on management expense categories.
 
 

Bought to you by:
University of Wyoming Extension –
Agriculture & Horticulture Initiative Team
USDA Risk Management Agency
and The RightRisk Team

RightRisk: Drought Contingency Plan Webinar

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The Wyoming Department of Agriculture and University of Wyoming Extension collaborated to offer a series of workshops across Wyoming this past winter/spring, culminating in an online webinar conference offered May 6th. Recordings of those presentations have been compiled and posted.

  • Chris Wichmann, WDA Natural Resource & Policy Division, manager – Welcome/Introduction
  • Dallas Mount, SE Area Sustainable Management of Rangeland Resources Educator –
    Drought Management
  • John Hewlett, UW Ranch/Farm Management Specialist – Managing Drought Risk and Tools to Evaluate Your Strategy
  • Lucy Pauley, Wyoming Department of Agriculture, mediation coordinator and Justin Williams, Wyoming Department of Agriculture, policy analyst – Communication Strategies between Permittees and Federal Agencies
  • Chris Wichmann, Wyoming Department of Agriculture, Natural Resource & Policy Division, manager and Lucy Pauley, Wyoming Department of Agriculture, mediation coordinator –
    Closing Comments