Uniting Farms and Communities

Agenda

Saturday, January 3, 2004

Camp Mitchell Conference Center, Petit Jean Mountain, Arkansas

Time

Speaker

8:30 to 9

Introduction/Welcome Keller Hall

Judge Jimmy Hart

9 to 10

Creating a Food Network

Customers: Robert Waldrop

Farmers: Kim Barker

 

10 to 10:30

 

State Policy for Food and Agriculture

John Mark Hack, Kentucky Agricultural Development Board

and Global Development Partners

10:30 - 11

Lt. Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller

11 to 12

Future of Arkansas State Agriculture Policy

Dr. Van Ayers, University of Missouri

Sen. Tim Wooldridge, Arkansas Senate Ag Committee

Rep. Wayne Nichols, Arkansas House Ag Committee

12-12:30

 All-Arkansas Lunch Keller Hall

12:30 to 1

Attorney General Mike Beebe

1 to 1:45

Farmer Perspectives Keller Hall

Jimmy Wallace

Stephan Walker

John Alter

Dairy Value-Added Breakout Hoke Hall

Jamie Mauthe

Sam Ward

Jimmy Hart

1:45 to 2:45

Value-Added Animal Agriculture

Kendrick Ketchum

Gerald Fry

Teddy Gentry

3 to 4

Dairy Opportunities

Jamie Mauthe, Mauthe Dairy, Mississippi

Sam Ward, Eureka Springs

4 to 4:30

Farmers Markets

Barbara Armstrong

4:30 to 530

Strategic Planning

Value-Added Farmers Group Organizing

Arkansas Farm Community Alliance