 Egg centric at the Central Lakes College Staples Campus is the recipient of a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to help farmers with risk management. The approximately $100,000 grant will go towards assisting beginning farmers in mitigating risks on their own operation. Egg centric will specifically focus on the air of human risk including employee management and mental health. Right now the economy is quite depressed. We've actually come through now. This will be the fourth year where net farm income is not even meeting family farm living needs and so that's causing some mental health issues out there. We're concerned about that so we want to be supportive through these workshops and offer tools really how to you know how to work through this situation and then the other side is employee management. A lot of our farms nowadays have sometimes just two to three employees sometimes it's up 10-15 employees and there's just some challenges with that and how to handle people with that. The grant is awarded by the Risk Management Agency at the Department of Agriculture and this is the second year that Egg centric has received this particular grant. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.