Urban-Ag Academy Conference 2019
July 10-12, 2019

 

Gateway Hotel and Conference Center at ISU
2100 Green Hills Dr.
Ames, Iowa

 

Wednesday, July 10, 2019

6:00 pm - Welcome
Amanda De Jong, State Executive Director, Iowa Farm Service Agency

Dinner 
Joined by the George Washington Carver Summer research interns 

7:30 pm - 2019 Class Photo


Thursday, July 11, 2019

7:45 – 8:45 am - Breakfast Buffet

9:00 – 9:45 am - State Hemp Issues
State Representative John Forbes

9:45 – 10:30 am - Urban Agricultural Entrepreneurship
Kevin Kimle, Director, Rastetter Chair of Agricultural Entrepreneurship,
Iowa State University

10:30 – 10:45 am - Break

10:45 – 12:00 pm - MANRRS
Karl Binns, Jr. President, MANRRS, UMES. A nation organization that promotes academic and professional advancement by empowering minorities in agriculture, natural resources, and related sciences.

12:00 – 12:45 pm - Lunch at Gateway Hotel and Conference Center
                           Report on National Helen Miller Agricultural Institute

1:00 – 2:00 pm - Biofuels: A Win-Win for Rural and Urban America
Monte Shaw, Executive Director, Iowa Renewable Fuels Association

2:00 – 2:45 pm - US Weather Outlook & 50 Years of US Climate Policy
Elwynn Taylor, Professor of Ag Meteorology, Iowa State University 
3:00 pm - Bus departs for Wind Energy Farm Tour
Beaver Creek Wind Farm in Ogden, Iowa

3:45 – 4:45 pm - Wind Energy Farm Tour
Makenzie (Mak) Heddens, Power Up Iowa

5:00 pm - Bus departs for Summit Farms

6:00 - 7:30 pm - Dinner at home of Bruce Rastetter, Summit Farms

7:30 - 8:15 pm - Bus departs for return to Gateway Hotel


Friday, July 12, 2019

7:45 - 8:30 am - Breakfast Buffet

8:30 - 9:30 am - Our Food System: The Good the Bad and the Future
Ruth MacDonald, Department Chair, Food Science and Human Nutrition,
Iowa State University

9:30 AM - 10:30 am - Farm Bill and Tariffs: Potential Impact 
Chad Hart, Associate Professor, Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics Extension, Iowa State University

10:30 – 10:45 am - BREAK

10:45 - 11:55 am - Policies in Urban Agriculture Food Processing
Angela Shaw, Associate Professor, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Iowa State University

Shannon M. Coleman, Assistant Professor/Extension Specialist, Food Safety 
and Consumer Production, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Iowa State University

12:00 pm - Lunch and Wrap up discussion