Producer Outreach

The Kerr Center strives to deliver the best in sustainable outreach to Oklahoma farmers and ranchers.  The Center’s mission of service to Oklahoma’s agricultural producers includes a full range of educational events and materials to help the region’s farmers and ranchers survive and prosper while improving the land.

The latest development in this effort is the Oklahoma Beginning Farmer and Rancher Program, which uses theStewardship Ranch's livestock and horticulture operations as a training ground for raising a new crop of Oklahoma farmers andranchers.

Every year the Kerr Center hosts educational events on a wide range of topics.  Recent workshops and field days have focused on sustainable grazing management, farm-to-school marketing, organic vegetable production, and low-cost season-extension techniques such as hoop houses, among many other topics.  The Kerr Center’s online events calendar contains an up-to-date listing of upcoming educational events, as well as related activities sponsored by other organizations.

The Kerr Center also maintains an extensive and frequently updated online array of educational resources on all aspects of sustainable farming and ranching. These include materials developed by the Kerr Center as well as those published by other organizations; some are collected as “packets” of publications relevant to a particular topic. All are available in electronic form on this website.

In addition, photos, details, and materials from many past events are compiled on separate pages, for the benefit of those who may have been unable to attend in person.

In recognition of the fact that farmers often have the sharpest insights into overcoming their own challenges, the Kerr Center created the Oklahoma Producer Grant (OPG) program. Beginning in 1998, the OPG program provided cash grants to enable farmers and ranchers to experiment with innovations that might not otherwise fit their budgets. Grants supported both research and demonstration projects, and findings were made available to other producers through both field days and published educational materials. Project reports and short summaries of grant projects are online.

The producer grant program is not currently accepting grant proposals.

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