Puck Hosts Spring Women in Ag Event
On March 22nd, Puck held a Women in Ag event designed to encourage women’s involvement in agriculture. Women learned in sessions and networked with similar community members. Various vendors had booths in the Puck Manning showroom, from wine slushies to cupcakes to laser-cut custom products. Attendees arrived in the afternoon and shopped while they mingled, getting to know people in the community and making connections.
Past, Present, & Future of Ag
Shelly Greving of Emerge Marketing Solutions kicked off the event with an activity for attendees to get to know one another. First, women were split into different groups based on their past relation to agriculture. Most attendees found themselves in the group of “Hands On Farm Girl,” as women who grew up helping on the family farm. Next, women moved to groups based on their current relationship to agriculture today. Many attendees found that they moved from “Hands On” to “Support System” when they grew up. After that, they moved to the classification that they envision for their future, such as becoming an Ag Entrepreneur, a FarmHER, or removed from agriculture entirely.
Creating Profit in a Tight Ag Market
Two different sessions were held in the afternoon; a presentation on grain marketing and cost planning, and creating a vision board. Alexis Stevens, a Farm Management Specialist from Iowa State University Extension and Outreach, gave an insightful presentation about tying the cost of production and crop insurance into your grain marketing plan. She gave up to date numbers, prices, and expert predictions for future agricultural endeavors. Alexis also provided tips and resources that could help farmers be more profitable in a tight market.
Envisioning a Future in Ag
Erinn Ahart from Ahart Pilates led a vision board creation activity. Vision boards are a fun way to make a plan to help visualize what you want for you and your life. Attendees used magazines and glue to put their goals, dreams, desires on their boards. Erinn explained that by looking at a visual representation of your goals every day, you’re more likely to make them come true. This activity tied back in with Shelly Greving’s activity asking women to envision their future. Women play an important part in agriculture, and it’s important to continue that involvement in the future, even if that role looks different from the past.
Puck Enterprises is proud to support women in agriculture and host the annual event at our Manning campus. For future events at Puck, be sure to check our events calendar often, or sign up for our newsletter.