{"id":14703,"date":"2018-02-22T09:08:52","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T16:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/?p=14703"},"modified":"2018-02-22T09:10:26","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T16:10:26","slug":"beginning-farmer-training-program-moves-forward-from-agnetwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/02\/22\/beginning-farmer-training-program-moves-forward-from-agnetwest\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginning Farmer Training Program moves forward &#8211; from AgNetWest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14704\" style=\"width: 399px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14704\" class=\" wp-image-14704\" src=\"http:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Farmer-in-pepper-fields.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"389\" height=\"259\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14704\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Photo courtesy of AgNetWest<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Note<\/strong> &#8211; <em>This beginning farmer training program received funding from CDFA&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdfa.ca.gov\/Specialty_Crop_Competitiveness_Grants\/\">Specialty Crop Block Grant Program.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A recently developed beginning farmer training program has officially been approved by the California State Division of Apprenticeship Standards.\u00a0 The California Farm Academy Beginning Farm and Ranch Manager Apprenticeship Program has been established by the <a href=\"http:\/\/landbasedlearning.org\/\">Center for Land-Based Learning<\/a> (CLBL) as a means to increase the number of young people who are prepared to take on managerial roles on the farm.<\/p>\n<p>There is an increasing need to further develop the next generation of farmers and ranchers to become skilled farming professionals.\u00a0 As older farmers begin contemplating retirement, those management positions will need someone to step in and take over.\u00a0 There have also been other efforts in recent years aimed at enabling young and beginning farmers to start their own operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving an accredited apprenticeship like this for agriculture in California is a big milestone,\u201d said CLBL Executive Director Mary Kimball. \u201cCalifornia is facing a shortage of qualified farm managers and operators, as an entire generation is on the cusp of retirement. This is also incredibly helpful to beginning farmers in the state, who finally have a legal, formal apprenticeship program approved by the State that trains to one standard,\u201d Kimball noted.<\/p>\n<p>The Beginning Farm and Ranch Manager Apprenticeship provides professional training for producing specialty crops.\u00a0 The program requires 250 hours of coursework and another 3,000 hours of paid on-the-job training on a farming operation.\u00a0 Participants will receive hands-on experience under the mentorship of a seasoned farmer.\u00a0 After completing the program, apprentices will have the necessary education and business management skills to advance their professional agricultural career.<\/p>\n<p>The effort to get the beginning farmer training program approved was a collaboration between CLBL, Soil Born Farms and the Division of Apprenticeship Standards. The California Department of Food and Agriculture was also integral to the two-year process with grant funding provided by their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdfa.ca.gov\/Specialty_Crop_Competitiveness_Grants\/\">Specialty Crop Block Grant Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agnetwest.com\/beginning-farmer-training-receives-state-approval\/\">Link to story<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note &#8211; This beginning farmer training program received funding from CDFA&#8217;s Specialty Crop Block Grant Program. A recently developed beginning farmer training program has officially been approved by the California State Division of Apprenticeship Standards.\u00a0 The California Farm Academy Beginning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/02\/22\/beginning-farmer-training-program-moves-forward-from-agnetwest\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\r\n<title>Beginning Farmer Training Program moves forward - from AgNetWest - CDFA&#039;s Planting Seeds Blog<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/plantingseedsblog.cdfa.ca.gov\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/02\/22\/beginning-farmer-training-program-moves-forward-from-agnetwest\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Beginning Farmer Training Program moves forward - from AgNetWest - CDFA&#039;s Planting Seeds Blog\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Note &#8211; This beginning farmer training program received funding from CDFA&#8217;s Specialty Crop Block Grant Program. 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