What's Up at MAC!

May 2006

• Project Manager attended the Small Food Processor Entrepreneur Workshop in Jefferson City.

• Project Manager attended the Community Food Systems and Sustainable Agriculture Program's Centra Web meeting as well as their stakeholder's meeting.

• Referrals from Extension led the way in contacts to the MAC office with 44.9%. The Central Region had the most contacts with 18.9% and the Southwest Region had the most extension contacts with 37.5% each.

• MAC web site "hits" report
  January - 178,401
  February - 157,334
  March - 209,610
  April - 200,443
  May - 196,758

• The thirteen most requested topics mailed to clients during the month of May were:
  6 Ag Opportunities
  3 Farm Beginnings Program, Meat goats, worms
  2 Organic beef, beekeeping, organic certification, organic farming
  2 Small Food Processor Entrepreneur Workshop

• The ten most requested topics on the MAC website during the month of May were:
  1,709 Rabbits
  876 Meat Goats
  602 Smoke houses, smokers
  598 Worms
  452 Bed and breakfast
  424 Greenhouses, production
  403 Beginning farming
  399 Beef
  394 Farmers' markets
  388 Cut Flowers

• Ag Opportunities' monthly e-newsletter:
  Getting Grants: Ten Things You Gotta Do To Get Money
  What's The Buzz about Risk Management?
  Sheep And Goat Herbal Deworming Research Project
  In Print/On-Line
  In The News
  On The Calendar

Debi Kelly
Project Manager