2017 Round Table Meetings

January 4-6, 2017 ………………………………………………….
Irvine, CA

Resilience and Adaption in Agriculture
Keynote: Agriculture Policy Over the Next Four Years
Ambassador Darci Vetter, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
Mike Torrey, Michael Torrey Associates, LLC

Navigating the Environmental Policy Landscape
Karen Ellis Carr, Arent Fox, LLP
Barb Glenn, National Association of State Departments of Agriculture

Managing Diminishing Natural Resources
Sara Scherr, Ecoagriculture Partners
Paul Wenger, California Farm Bureau Federation

Moving at the Speed of Light: Adapting to Rapid Technological Advances
Sid Gorham, Granular
Tom Nassif, Western Growers Association

Building Partnerships for Global Improvements in Agriculture
John Larson, American Farmland Trust
Alex Echols, EcoSystem Services Exchange

June 7-9, 2017.………………………………………………………………………………………..
Charlottesville, VA

A Hopeful Future: Farming & Food Production Over the Next Two Decades
Monticello Farm Study
Leslie Greene Bowman, Thomas Jefferson Foundation
Thomas Woltz, Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects

Keynote:  James Snee, Hormel Foods Corporation

Session 1: Dairy
John Dardis, Glanbia
Karen Scanlon, Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy

Session 2: Protein
Barry Carpenter, North American Meat Institute
Kelly Hagen, Entomo Farms

Session 3: Grains
Jon Doggett, National Corn Growers Association
Michael Parrish, Monsanto
Mary-Howell Martens, Lakeview Organic Grains

Session 4: Specialty crops
Anne MacMillan, Invariant
Barry Bushue, Oregon Farm Bureau

Session 5: Retail
Matt Perin, Kroeger
Don Goodwin Golden Sun Marketing

Closing Keynote:
Sally Rockey, Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research