| Topic for May 6, 2008 Forum:
Food Safety
Opening remarks by:
Speakers to be named
Logistics: National Press Club, 529 14th Street NW, Washington, D.C.
Program 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Coffee available at 8:30 a.m.
To attend:
There is no charge to participate.
An RSVP is requested by noon, Friday, May 2, to Mary Thompson, Farm Foundation Director of Communication,
mary@farmfoundation.org
Future Forum Dates:
June 3 - Perspectives on the Farm Bill from outside the Beltway
July 15 - Trade
Listen to the Forum: An MP3 file is available of the Forums which took place April 8, 2008 and March 4, 2008. Link at right under Past Forum Sessions.
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About the Farm Foundation Forum ll Forum
Food, agricultural and rural policy is changing. The increasing integration of the world agricultural economy presents challenges in trade, food safety, animal health and food security. More citizens and interest groups are actively working to influence agricultural, food and rural policy issues.
Farm Foundation is organizing a series of public forums to engage all stakeholders in informed dialogue on food, agricultural and rural policies.
Meeting participants examine current policies, explore and analyze alternative policy proposals, and give voice to new proposals. Speakers provide brief topic summaries, with the majority of time devoted to discussion.Farm Foundation launched this series in February 2006 as the Farm Bill Forums, focusing on issues in the next farm bill.
Recognizing the value stakeholders have expressed for an opportunity to discuss current and evolving issues, we are continuing the series as Farm Foundation Forums and will broaden discussion to issues beyond those in the current legislation.
Who should participate: People with an interest in agricultural, food and rural policy, including members of Congress, congressional staff, executive branch officials, industry representatives, NGO representatives and members of the media.
Farm Foundation works as a catalyst, bringing together producers, industry, interest groups, government and academics to address economic and public policy issues facing agriculture, the food system and the people of rural America. Farm Foundation has a 75-year history of objectivity. It does not lobby or advocate positions.
Logistics: 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., First Amendment Lounge, National Press Club, 529 14th Street NW, Washington D.C.
Coffee available at 8:30 a.m.
Past Forum Sessions________________________________
April 8, 2008 The Lifecycle Carbon Footprint of Biofuels
Listen to this forum (MP3 file)
Bruce McCarl of Texas A&M University;
Brooke Coleman, New Fuels Alliance
Laurent Javaudin, Delegation of the European Commission to the United States
March 4, 2008, Factors and Impacts of U.S. Food Price Increases
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Ephriam Leibtag, USDA Economic Research Service
Sophie Milam, Bread for the World
Scott Faber, GMA/FPA
Jon Doggett, National Corn Growers Association
February 5, 2008, Biofuels Policy, Development and Land Use
Wallace Tyner, Purdue University
Tim Warman, National Wildlife Federation
December 11, 2007, Land Use Issues
Dr. Adesoji Adelaja, Michigan State University
Gary Baise, Kilpatrick Stockton
November 14, 2007, U.S. Farm Policy and Trade Impacts
Laurent Javaudin, Delegation of the European Commission to the United States
Parr Rosson, Texas A&M University
David Blandford, Penn State University.
October 16, 2007: Economic development in rural America
Tom Dorr, USDA Under Secretary for Rural Development
Brian Dabson, Rural Policy Research Institute
Tom Stenson, Farmer Mac
May 15, 2007: Organic food issues in the Farm Bill
Caren Wilcox, Organic Trade Association
Mark Lipson, Organic Farming Research Foundation
April 17, 2007: Energy issues in the Farm Bill
Bob Dinneen, Renewable Fuels Association
Bart Ruth, 25X'25
Al Mannato, American Petroleum Institute
Becky Doyle, Hickory Grove Pork Farm
March 13, 2007: Alternatives to the Farm Bill
Robert Thompson, University of Illinois, and
Ken McCauley, National Corn Growers Association
February 14, 2007: Rural development issues in the Farm Bill
Tom Dorr, USDA Under Secretary for Rural Development
Charles Fluharty, RUPRI
January 17, 2007: Specialty crop issues in the Farm Bill
John Keeling, National Potato Council
Tom O'Brien of Thelen Reid Brown Raysman and Steiner, representing the American Nursery and Landscape Association
Robert Guenther, United Fresh Produce Association
December 6, 2006: Ag Leadership in the 110th Congress
Rep. Collin Peterson (D-Minn).
November 14, 2006: Nutrition Programs
Ellen Vollinger, Food Research and Action Center
Marshall Matz, School Nutrition Association
Rick Leach, Friends of the World Food Program
Doug O’Brien, America’s Second Harvest
October 11, 2006: Research, Extension and Teaching
Jim Richards, spokesman for CREATE 21—Creating Research, Extension and Teaching Excellence for the 21st Century
Ken Farrell, professor emeritus at the University of California and a former administrator of USDA’s Economic Research Service.
September 13, 2006: National Agricultural, Food and Public Policy Preference Survey
Brad Lubben, University of Nebraska
Mary Kay Thatcher, American Farm Bureau Federation
June 21, 2006: Natural Resources, Conservation and Green Payments
Ralph Grossi, American Farmland Trust
Otto Doering, Purdue University
May 17, 2006: Budget Challenges and the Farm Bill
Chip Conley and Craig Jagger, House Agriculture Committee
April 12, 2006: Goals and Objectives of the New Farm Bill
Cal Dooley, President, Food Products Association,
Luther Tweeten, Ohio State University
March 14, 2006: Immigration and Agricultural Labor
Joe Swedberg, Vice President, Hormel Foods
Craig J. Regelbrugge, Co-Chair, Agriculture Coalition for Immigration Reform
Representatives of the Hispanic Caucus and the Border Caucus
February 15, 2006: History of the 2002 Farm Bill with a View to 2007
Former Congressmen Charlie Stenholm and Larry Combest
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