Sustainable Agriculture Colloquium
(SusAg 600)

Spring 2008

Unless otherwise noted, all sessions meet from 3:10 to
5:00 PM on Wednesdays in 2019 Morrill Hall.

Date Program Location
16 January Francis Thicke, dairy farmer, Radiance Dairy, Fairfield, IA, "Designing an Ecologically Sound Farm:  From the Soil to the Marketplace." 2019 Morrill
23 January Laura Krouse, vegetable farmer, Abbe Hills Farm, Mt. Vernon, IA, "Farm Your Passions." 2019 Morrill
30 January Colleen Rogers, associate director of development, ISU Foundation, "Campus Sustainability at Iowa State." 2019 Morrill
6 February Madeline Schultz, recent ISU MBA graduate, "Travelogue:  Sustainability in New Zealand." 2019 Morrill
13 February John R. Baker, attorney, Beginning Farmer Center, "Making a Success of Succession Planning:  A Question of Values." 2019 Morrill
20 February Sonja Brodt, research associate, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California-Davis, "The Low Carbon Diet:  Reducing Energy Intensity and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Food System Using a Life Cycle Assessment Approach." 2019 Morrill
27 February Laura Jackson, professor, Department of Biology, University of Northern Iowa, "Questions at the Intersection of Conservation Biology and Sustainable Agriculture." 2019 Morrill
5 March J. Gordon Arbuckle, assistant professor, ISU Department of Sociology, "Competing Agri-Environmental Paradigms and Technology Transfer:  Negotiating the Nature of Agroforestry in Missouri." 2019 Morrill
12 March Carol Williams, postdoctoral research associate, ISU Department of Agronomy, "Patterns of Regional Yield Stability in Association with Regional Environmental Characteristics." 2019 Morrill
19 March Spring Break
26 March Dennis Avery, director, Center for Global Food Issues, Hudson Institute, "Sustaining Agriculture and the Planet through the 21st Century."   To view a video streaming file of Mr. Avery's presentation, please see the following link: Dennis Avery Colloquium. (requires Real Player) 2019 Morrill
2 April Carmen Bain, assistant professor, ISU Department of Sociology, "Corporate Social Responsibility in the Global Value Chain:  An Assessment of EurepGAP Certification for Improving Farmworker Health and Safety." 2019 Morrill
9 April Dermot Hayes, Pioneer Chair in Agribusiness, ISU Department of Economics, "Implied Objectives of US Biofuel Policy." 2019 Morrill
16 April Richard Leopold, director, Iowa Department of Natural Resources, "Harmonious Balance of Land Use." 2019 Morrill
23 April Kathleen Delate, associate professor, ISU Department of Horticulture, "Organic Agriculture Around the World: Lessons from Farmers and Field Stations." 2019 Morrill
30 April Annual GPSA Research Symposium:
Jason Hill, research associate with the Departments of Applied Economics and Ecology, Evolution & Behavior at the University of Minnesota, will present "Opportunities and Challenges of Sustainable Biofuel Production."		 Starting at 2:10 PM in the Sun Room of the ISU Memorial Union
5-9 May Finals.