Final Agenda |
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| Friday, January 18 | |
| 11:00 am | SARL Board Meeting |
| 1:00 - 3:00 pm | Optional Policy Sessions and Tour
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| 3:30 - 5:30 pm | Busch Brewery Tour |
| 6:00 pm | Opening Reception Missouri Botanical Gardens |
| 7:30 pm | Dinner on your own (SARL has a table at the hotel) |
| 10:00 pm | Hospitality Suite |
| Saturday, January 19 | |
| 7:00 – 8:00 am | Breakfast |
| 8:00 – 8:45 am |
Opening and welcome - Jack Schultz, author of Boomtown USA. Provoking innovative thinking, encouraging leadership and fostering investment in rural America |
| 8:45 – 9:15 am | Rebuilding America's Productive Economy Milan Wall, Heartland Center for Economic Development |
| 9:15 - 10:00 am | Open Rural Development discussion |
| 10:30 – 11:45 am | First Round of Breakouts |
| Can carbon trading improve the economic viability of farms and timberland? David Miller, Iowa Farm Bureau |
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| State livestock regulations - Where are we headed? Steve Kopperund, Policy Directions |
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| Specialty crops and identity preservation: profit opportunities? Ray Massey, University of Missouri Bill Couser, Ankeny, Iowa, producer |
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| Food safety: Will GAP and LGMA put integrated producers out of business? Jeff LaFleur, Cape Cod Cranberry Association Kira Pasco, Community Alliance with Family Farmers |
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| Rural renewal in action - Indiana and Wisconsin Sam Cordes, RISE 2020, Indiana Stan Gruszynski, Wisconsin Future of Farming Project |
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| noon - 2:00 pm | Lunch |
| Federal Update: Clayton Yeutter Former Secretary of Agriculture and U.S. Trade Representative |
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| 2:30 -4:00 pm | Breakouts, Session II |
| Infrastructure needs for changing commodity market Craig O'Riley, Iowa Department of Transportation Matt Fannin, Louisiana State University |
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| Keeping them down on the farm, how to reduce brain drain in our rural communities Melissa Dearmont, Midwest Community Clinic Michael Duffy, National Beginning Farmer Center |
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| State and Provincial role in COOL and label harmonization Blair Coomber, Director General, Canada ITP Bob Garfield, American Frozen Food Institute |
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| Increasing the bottom line, vineyards, tourism and more Jon Held, Stone Hill Winery, Missouri Craig Richoff, Massachusetts Farm Viability Program |
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| Rural development, building one community at a time Mary Ellen McClanahan, Georgia's Entrepreneur and Small Business Office Senator Michael Brubaker, Pennsylvania, Keystone Innovation Zones |
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| 4:30 – 5:30 pm | SARL Connections North Dakota Commissioner of Agriculture Roger Johnson, NASDA President |
| 6:30 pm | Wine Across America Reception Welcome by Jim Anderson, Missouri Wine and Grape |
| 7:30 pm | Dinner Charlie Arnot, Center for Food Integrity |
| 9:30- 11:00 pm | Hospitality Suite |
| Sunday, January 20 | |
| 7:30 - 10:00 am | Breakfast SARL Annual Meeting 2008 Election Results 2008 In Support of American Agriculture Resolution 2008 Rural Development Resolution |
| 10:15 – 1:00 p.m. | Energizing Rural America Panel discussion of the role of traditional and alternative energy in economic development Stan Riemann, Coffeyville Resources Jim Sims, Western Business Rountable Tony Ahern, Buckeye Power David Dunn, Cow Power, Central Vermont Power John Sheehan, Live Fuels, Inc. Bill Schafer, Range Fuels |