Featuring:
The Southern SARE Program
(The same presentation given twice, once from 8:30 to 10:30 and again from
2:00 to 4:30)
The President's Commission on Sustainable Development
Panel on Animal Waste/Environmental/Community Issues in the
Arkansas/Oklahoma Region
8:30-9:30 The Southern SARE Program, Dr. Adell Brown, Extension
Administrator, Southern University, Southern SARE Council Chairman and
Professional Development Program (PDP) grant recipient, Presiding.
The Southern SARE Program: Research and Education, Dr. Rick Welsh, Program
Director and member of SARE Host Consortium, Griffin GA.
The SARE Producer Grant Program, Dr. John Mayne, Producer Grants
Coordinator, SARE Host Consortium, Griffin, GA.
The Sustainable Agriculture Professional Development Program (Extension
and Outreach), Jim Lukens, Director, Appropriate Technology Transfer for
Rural Areas (ATTRA); and John O'Sullivan, North Carolina A & T State
University, Co-coordinators for the Sustainable Agriculture Professional
Development Program (PDP).
9:30-10:30 Panel of Southern Sustainable Agriculture
Researchers/Practitioners, Dr. Adell Brown, presiding.
Mrs. La Rhea Pepper, Executive Officer, Texas Organic Cotton Merchandising
Cooperative, O'Donnell, Texas, Council Member.
Dr. Craig S.Rothrock, Professor Plant Pathology, University of Arkansas,
Principal Investigator on Research and Education Grant and Technical
Committee Member.
Skip Polson, Director of US and Canada Programs, Heifer Project
International, Little Rock, AR, Research and Education grant recipient on
pastured poultry.
10:30-11:00 Break
l1:00-12:00 Report on The President's Commission on Sustainable Development
and Introduction to Animal Waste/Environmental issues in the
Arkansas/Oklahoma Region.--Jim Horne, President, Kerr Center for
Sustainable Agriculture, former Chair of the Southern SARE Council and
Member of the President's Commission on Sustainable Development.
12:00-1:00 Lunch Break
1:00-2:00 Panel on Animal Waste/Environmental Issues in the
Arkansas/Oklahoma Region Jim Horne, President, Kerr Center for Sustainable
Agriculture, Presiding.
Federal, State, and Local Responses to Water Quality Concerns: Where do
Arkansas and Oklahoma Stand?, Janie Hipp, Staff Attorney and Asst. Research
Professor, National Agricultural Law Research Center, University of Arkansas.
Report on the Governor's Water Quality Task Force of Oklahoma, Michelle
Stephens, Rural Development and Policy Director, the Kerr Center for
Sustainable Agriculture, Weatherford, Oklahoma.
2:00-3:00 The Southern SARE Program, Dr. Adelle Brown, Extension
Administrator, Southern University, Southern SARE Council Chairman and
Professional Development Program (PDP) grant recipient, Presiding.
The Southern SARE Program: Research and Education, Dr. Rick Welsh, Program
Director and member of SARE Host Consortium, Griffin GA.
The SARE Producer Grant Program, Dr. John Mayne, Producer Grants
Coordinator, SARE Host Consortium, Griffin, GA.
The Sustainable Agriculture Professional Development Program (Extension
and Outreach), Jim Lukens, Director, Appropriate Technology Transfer for
Rural Areas (ATTRA); and John O'Sullivan, North Carolina A & T State
University, Co-coordinators for the Sustainable Agriculture Professional
Development Program (PDP).
3:00-3:30 Break
3:30-4:30 Panel of Southern Sustainable Agriculture
Researchers/Practitioners, Dr. Adell Brown, Presiding.
Mrs. La Rhea Pepper, Executive Officer, Texas Organic Cotton Merchandising
Cooperative, O'Donnell, Texas, SARE Council Member.
Dr. Craig S.Rothrock, Professor of Plant Pathology, University of
Arkansas, Principal Investigator on Research and Education Grant and SARE
Technical Committee Member.
Skip Polson, Director of US and Canada Programs, Heifer Project
International, Little Rock, AR, Research and Education grant recipient on
pastured poultry.
Donald E. Voth
Professor of Rural Sociology
School of Human Environmental Science
HOEC 118
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72710
501-575-2409
dvoth@comp.uark.edu
Rick Welsh, Director
Sustainable Agriculture Research
& Education Program, Southern Region
University of Georgia, Georgia Station
1109 Experiment St.
Griffin, GA 30223
P:770-412-4787
F:770-412-4789
e-mail:rwelsh@gaes.griffin.peachnet.edu
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