FOR RELEASE:
June 20, 2006
For more information contact:

Tom Lacock, Senior Marketing and Public Relations Specialist
The Wyoming Business Council
Phone: 307.777.2834

Tour to promote agricultural diversification scheduled for Kaycee

CHEYENNE – Reservations can still be made for the Women in Ag tour co-sponsored by The Wyoming Business Council’s Agribusiness Division and Wyoming Women in Ag. The tour of diversified agricultural operations will be held in the Kaycee area on June 27.
The fourth annual tour will visit operations featuring: goat milk production at Nanny Kid Farms; Nancy Schiffer’s flower gardens and the Kaycee General Store which highlights Wyoming-made products.

A trip to Red Fork Ranch will headline the tour. Cheri Graves will explain how her family has incorporated Indian battlefield tours, guiding and outfitting and direct meat marketing to sustain their ranching operation.

Bob Harlan, the procurement director for the Mountain States Lamb Co-op will kick off the tour at 9:30 a.m. at Harold Jarrad Park in Kaycee. He will discuss opportunities to provide premium quality, value-added lamb products, while enhancing profitability for family farms. Kaycee Ranchers Jason and Radona Williams will also be present to talk about their grass-fed beef operation.

“The purpose of the tour is to showcase the different ways agricultural producers have diversified their ranch and farm income,” said Cindy Garretson-Weibel, Agribusiness Division Director for the Wyoming Business Council.

Cost for the tour is $35 per person for those who wish to ride a bus from Casper to Kaycee and $25 for those who will join the tour in Kaycee.

The bus from Casper to Kaycee will leave from the Ag Resource and Learning Center at 7:30 a.m. and arrive in Kaycee for registration and doughnuts at 9:15 a.m. A picnic lunch is provided. The bus will return to the Ag Resource and Learning Center at 6:30 p.m.
For more information, contact Garretson-Weibel at 307.777.6589; Sharon Cardwell, President of the Women in Ag program at 307.339.3040; or planning committee member Marcia Campbell at 307.738.2584.

The mission of the Wyoming Business Council is to facilitate the economic growth of Wyoming. For more information, please visit the Web site at www.wyomingbusiness.org.

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