D2-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 26,2002
UD Launches Center
For Farm Risk
Management Education
NEWARK, Del. Dr. H.
Don Tilmon, cooperative exten
sion specialist for farm manage
ment at the University of
Delaware, has received a five
year, $3,235,000 grant from the
U.S. Department of Agriculture
to launch the Northeast Center
for Risk Management Educa
tion (NCRME).
The Center’s purpose is to ed
ucate producers of agricultural
products about the range of risk
management opportunities
available to them. The region
served by the center includes the
New England states, New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Maryland and Delaware.
Tilmon says that until a few
years ago farm risk manage
ment concentrated on crop in
surance issues. That concept has
been expanded to include any
thing that helps farms remain
profitable.
“While crop insurance is still
a big part of risk management
education, it is not the only
part,” says Tilmon. “Educa
tional outreach through our
center will span the spectrum of
socioeconomic, environmental,
and health and safety issues for
growers. We hope to offer pro
grams on estate planning, fed
eral standards, retirement,
workers’ compensation, hiring
employees, futures and options,
computer training all the var
iables that go into running any
well-managed business.”
Tilmon divides risks to farm
businesses into five categories:
production risks, such as crop
insurance, contracts and diversi
fication; marketing risks, involv
ing development of a marketing
plan and use marketing tools; fi
nancial risks, including interest
rates, liquidity and cash flow;
human resources risks from
managing employees; and legal
risks associated with contractual
arrangements, tort liability and
environmental issues.
An advisory committee,
comprised of Tilmon and five
NCRME who are leaders in the
agricultural community, will
review grant proposals from the
private sector and northeastern
land-grant universities, then dis
tribute project funds for agricul
tural education programs.
In addition to addressing risk
management issues, the center
will provide train-the-teacher
workshops for county agents,
extension specialists and people
from the private sector who
want to know more about risk
management. The center’s first
project a regional Website
linked to the national library of
information on risk manage
ment is already well under
way.
Tilmon and UD’s College of
Agriculture and Natural Re
sources were chosen to receive
the grant over larger agricul
tural colleges, including those at
Cornell, Penn State, University
of Maryland and Rutgers Uni
versity, based largely on Til
mon’s reputation as a leader in
the field of farm risk manage
ment.
The son of a sharecropper,
Tilmon grew up in Missouri’s
Bootheel, located in the
southeastern part of the state,
where he learned firsthand the
hardships of being a farmer.
From an early age, he picked
cotton by hand, an experience,
he says, “you never forget.” He
credits this early experience
with motivating him to earn a
university degree. He received a
bachelor’s degree in animal sci
ence from the University of
Missouri, a master’s degree in
management from the Univer
sity of Delaware and a doctorate
in marketing from Purdue Uni
versity.
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