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.
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 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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