DISCUSSION MEET QUESTIONS 2010
How can agricultural producers reach out to the public to gain their support on important issues impacting agriculture?
Feedstuffs Foodlink
http://feedstuffsfoodlink.com/ME2/Default.asp
Animal Care and Well-Being: Facts not Fiction
http://www.animalagriculture.org/proceedings/2008AMProceedings.asp
Conversations on Care
http://www.conversationsoncare.com/about-us.aspx
Your Agriculture
http://www.fb.org/index.php?fuseaction=yourag.home
Advocates for Ag
http://www.advocatesforag.blogspot.com/
Animal Welfare bibliography
http://www.agmrc.org/markets__industries/food/animal_rights_and_welfare.cfm
The U.S. has the safest food supply in the world. How do farmers continue to improve the public’s perception of their products?
Know Your End Users Top Producer magazine , September 2008
http://www.agweb.com/TopProducer/Article.aspx?id=145421
Feedstuffs Foodlink
Organic Foods
Feedstuffs Foodlink
Phytosanitary Regulations Shape Fruit and Vegetable Trade Patterns
USDA, Amber Waves, April 2008
http://www.ers.usda.gov/AmberWaves/April08/DataFeature/
Center for Food Integrity
http://www.foodintegrity.org/index.php
What can be done to encourage young people to get involved in the agricultural industry and remain there?
Top Producer online -Young Farmer Program seminar
http://www.agweb.com/TopProducer/YoungFarmer.aspx
Don’t Wait for Dad Top Producer Jan. 2008
http://www.agweb.com/TopProducer/Article.aspx?id=140730
Beginning Farmer Center-Resources to help our next generation of farmers
http://www.extension.iastate.edu/bfc/programs.html#Farm%20On
online publications
http://www.extension.iastate.edu/bfc/pubs.html
Food Industry MarketMaker
MarketMaker is a national partnership of land grant institutions and State Departments of Agriculture dedicated to the development of a comprehensive interactive data base of food industry marketing and business data. It is currently one of the most extensive collections of searchable food industry related data in the country. All the information can be mapped and queried by the user.
http://national.marketmaker.uiuc.edu/
Agricultural Marketing Resource Center
http://www.agmrc.org/markets__industries/
Farmers for the Future: Two farms in one
Crops, livestock, and sightseers complement each other on this Indiana farm
Successful Farming Dec. 2008
http://www.agriculture.com/ag/story.jhtml?storyid=/templatedata/ag/story/data/1228514178258.xml
What are the Skills of Financially Successful Farmers?
http://www.agecon.purdue.edu/topfarmer/newsletter/TFCW12_2008.pdf
Top Farmer Crop Resources on the Web
http://www.agecon.purdue.edu/topfarmer/resources.asp
How can we continue to bridge the gap between farmers/ranchers and lawmakers in order to have an influence in the changing political environment?
Farmers are Engaging Consumers in a New Way
http://www.fb.org/index.php?fuseaction=newsroom.agenda