In our ongoing effort to catalyze informed decision making, the Council on Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics (C-FARE) will host a professional development panel from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. EDT July 22. The event will introduce young professionals and graduate students preparing to lead the next wave of research projects, policy changes and innovation to opportunities and professional tracks in a nonprofit industry advocacy group, a large government agency, media and communications, and a private government and regulatory affairs firm. C-FARE Board Chair Gal Hochman (Rutgers University) will be joined by panelists Dr. John Newton (American Farm Bureau Federation), Dr. Cynthia Nickerson (USDA), Philip Brasher (Agri-Pulse.com) and Barbara Patterson (Michael Torrey Associates).
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CESAR ESCALANTE, LILIAN BRISLEN, and BEN FELDMAN
About 280 registered for Local Food Markets, Farm Labor and Metrics in a Time of Covid-19, and dozens responded during and just after the broadcast June 26 with questions and comments for the panelists. During the 50-minute broadcast panelists had a narrow timeframe for audience questions. Here is a collection of unanswered audience questions panelists responded to in the hours and days following the broadcast.
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Covid-19 has devastated the economy, led to spiraling unemployment and increased food insecurity. How will this impact local food systems, and what changes are needed? Farmers markets have restructured to limit the spread of the virus but also witnessed demand spike. The availability and arrival of H2A foreign farm workers has become an urgent farm matter — will managers seek to source replacement workers? Meanwhile, the National Farm to Institution Metrics collaborative sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture aims to establish widely adopted farm impact metrics that serve as a foundation for reporting local food purchasing. The Council on Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics (C-FARE) along with the Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association (NAREA) host this free webinar to discuss the impacts of Covid-19 on local food systems. Support also comes from the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association and the USDA’s Economic Research Service and National Agricultural Statistics Service.
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Despite a steep decline in meat processing and a 92% jump in the price of wholesale boxed beef this spring, the U.S. livestock sector demonstrated resilience and relative supply chain stability throughout the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic. This webinar, June 5, 2020 was co-hosted by the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, and sponsored in part by the AAEA, and USDA's ERS and NASS. C-FARE board member Sean Cash, a Tufts University professor, moderated a panel that included Glynn Tonsor, a professor at Kansas State University; Josh Maples, an assistant professor at Mississippi State University; and Kenny Burdine, an associate extension professor at the University of Kentucky.
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