Meeting Agenda

4:00 pm

Conference Registration Opens

6:00-8:00 pm

Opening Reception

7:00 am

Breakfast

8:00 am

Welcome and Introduction
Bev Durgan, Dean, University of Minnnesota Extension, and Director, Minnesota Ag Experiment Station

General Session on Food and Health
Mindy Kurzer, Moderator

8:15 am

Introduction
Allen Levine, Dean, College of Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Sciences, University of Minnesota

8:20 am

BIG PICTURE: An Examination of How our Current Food System Influences Human Health
David B. Wallinga, Director, Food and Health Program, Insitute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Minneapolis

9:00 am

THE ROLE OF LAND-GRANTS: Practical Advice on How to Transform our Food System, Improve Public Health and Establish Economic Vitality in our Farming Communities
Michael W. Hamm, C.S. Mott Professor of Sustainable Agriculture, Michigan State University

10:10 am

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IN ACTION: Healthy Foods, Healthy Lives Institute
Mindy S. Kurzer, Professor and Director, University of Minnesota Healthy Foods, Healthy Lives Institute

10:35 am

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IN ACTION: Project Report from Superior Region Foodshed Team
Stacey Stark, Director, Geographic Information Sciences Laboratory, University of Minnesota, Duluth
David Abazs, Farmer, Round River Farm, Duluth, MN

11:15 am

PANEL DISCUSSION: How can land-grant universities contribute to research, education and outreach related to improving public health through the food system

12:00 pm

Luncheon

1:00-3:30 pm

Section Meetings

4:00-9:00 pm

Dinner and Tour
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum and Research Center

7:00 am

Breakfast

8:00 am

Update on BAC Policy Board Actions and Issues
Bev Durgan, Chair

8:30 am

Report from Cornerstone Government Affairs
Hunt Shipman, Vice President, CGA Group

8:45 am

NIFA Update
Meryl Broussard, Deputy Administrator, Plant and Animal Systems, NIFA, USDA

General Session
Bev Durgan, Moderator

9:00 am

Role of Animal Agriculture in our Food Systems
Trevor Ames, Dean, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota

9:50 am

Legislative View of Agriculture and Food Issues
Al Juhnke, Representative, Minnesota House of Representatives, District 13B

10:30 am

Managing Corporate Responsibility
Joe Swedberg, Vice President, Legislative Affairs, Hormel Foods Corporation

11:15 am

Adjourn