Appendix A Committee to Review the Role of Publicly Funded Agricultural Research on the Structure of U.S. Agriculture
Public Workshop
NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
BOARD ON AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES
University of Wisconsin, Madison
November 19, 1999
AGENDA |
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8:30–9:00 am |
Welcome and Introductions Anthony Earl, Committee Chair; Lee Paulson, Project Director |
8:45 |
Agricultural Research Service Overview Edward Knipling, Associate Adminstrator |
9:30 |
Competitive Research Grants and Awards Management Overview |
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Sarah (Sally) Rockey, Deputy Administrator, Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture |
10:15 |
Break |
10:30 |
Effects of Publicly Funded Agricultural Research on Structure Robert Evenson, Professor of Economics, Yale University |
11:15 |
Producer Perspective Mike Wehler, Upland Prairie Farms, Wisconsin |
12:00 noon |
Lunch |
1:00 |
Producer Perspective Marlyn Jorgensen, Jorg-Anna Farms, Garrison, Iowa |
1:45 |
Federal/Producer Interactions and Perspectives Roger Gerrits, Agricultural Consultant (formerly Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture) |
2:30 |
Constraints and Obligations to Providing Publicly Funded Research to Underserved Citizens for the Broad Public Good Margaret Krome, Michael Fields Agricultural Institute, East Troy, Wisconsin |
3:15 |
Break |
3:30 |
Swine Production Systems Jay Harmon, Associate Professor and Extension Agricultural Engineer, Iowa State University |
4:15 |
Science, Technology, and the Structure of the Dairy Farm Sector: Review of Research Results by the Program on Agricultural Technology Studies, University of Madison, Wisconsin Douglas Jackson-Smith, Co-Director |
5:00 |
Producer Perspective |