Description of C-FARE Events: (2019 - 2017)
1. Congressional Visits Day (2019)
Members of the Council on Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics paid visits to 17 U.S. representatives, including Rep. Sanford Bishop (D-Ga.) and Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-Mo.), and more than three dozen Senate offices in Washington. These university professors and department heads, representing about 20 land-grant universities, used the opportunity to discuss new research directions, current challenges facing farm budgets and operations, and the future of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture and Economic Research Service offices.
2. Brandt Forum (2019)
Every year C-FARE hosts a forum on an important topic related to the field of agricultural and applied economics.
About 60 people — some agency administrators, Hill staffers, and agricultural economists — turned out for the 2019 Jon Brandt Public Policy Forum, entitled Approaches for Bolstering Rural America’s Future: A Spotlight on Infrastructure, Entrepreneurship, and Rural Health. The event was sponsored and coordinated by the Council on Food, Agricultural, and Resource Economics (C-FARE).
The panel discussion took place inside the House of Representatives’ Agriculture Committee hearing room on Oct. 29. It was moderated by Tim Marema from the Daily Yonder. He was joined at the table by the following experts: Joy Moten-Thomas, assistant administrator for community development and outreach for the cooperative extension at Fort Valley State University; Corianne Scally, principal research associate for the Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center at the Urban Institute.
3. Intern Event Series (2018)
To support the growth of the agricultural and applied economics profession, C-FARE hosts a yearly event to provide information to those interested in internships in related fields. In 2018 this event was broken down into three events. A symposium on Careers on Capitol Hill. The Friend of Ag Economics Award Presentation. The third and final event was the USDA Agencies Tour
In a continuing partnership with the USDA OCE Office of Energy Policy and New Uses, C-FARE held the fourth event in the Agricultural and Rural Energy Economics Symposium Series. The event convened biofuel feedstock logistics, production, and economic experts from across the nation to talk about supply chain logistics and a vision for the future. The successful expansion of the bioeconomy is limited by the availability of affordable, sustainable, high-performance feedstock. Delivery of this valuable resource starts with production on the farm, where valuable innovations have maximized yield, improved harvest efficiencies, and enhanced biomass quality metrics. Still, the value points along the feedstock supply chain determine the market feasibility of the bioeconomy
4. Agricultural and Rural Energy Economics Symposium American-Made Bioenergy from Field to Refinery
5. Capitol Hill Symposium Water Resources and Policy (2017)
C-FARE, in conjunction with AAEA, hosted a seminar at the Capitol Visitors Center and at the U.S. Department of Agriculture - Economic Research Service. The purpose of this workshop was to inform congressional staff, agency staff, and other research analysts about research on water quantity, water quality, and related policy being conducted by agricultural economists and to engage in an interactive dialogue on research needs and priorities for future research useful for policy development.