Agenda

Wyndham Buttes Resort
2000 Westcourt Way, Tempe, AZ  85282

Saturday, January 21

7:15 am - 8:00 am Kachina Foyer	Breakfast Buffet
8:00 am – 8:15 am Kachina Ballroom	Introduction and Welcome  Doug Jones, Hawaii and Senator Mac Middleton, Maryland
8:15 am – 11:30 am Kachina Ballroom	Rural Development
8:15 am – 9:00 am	Regionalism:  Why is it Important?  How Do You Get It and Maintain It? Mark Drabenstott, Center for the Study of Rural America, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
9:00 am – 9:45 am	State Rural Development Initiatives:  Where Does the Money Come From? Maxine Moul, Director Emeritus, Nebraska Community Foundation
9:45 am – 10:00 am	Break
10:00 am – 11:15 am	Renewable Energy as an Engine of Economic Development Ernest Shea,  Project Coordinator, 25 X ’25 Ag Energy Work Group Otto Doering, Professor, Ag Economics, Purdue University
11:15 am – 11:45 am  Kachina Ballroom	State Agriculture and Rural Leaders Introduction Doug Jones, Hawaii and Roger Thomas, Kentucky
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Top of the Rock Restaurant	Lunch
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Kachina Ballroom	Ag Profitability
1:00 pm – 1:45 pm	Meeting Consumer Demand for Healthier Food Marc Belton, Vice President, General Mills
1:45 pm – 2:00 pm	Break
2:00 pm – 2:20 pm	How Can States Help Producers Compete Globally? Dale Miller, Foreign Agricultural Service, USDA
2:20 pm - 3:00 pm	Panel Discussion—The role of Foreign Offices, Trade Missions and Agricultural Trade Assistance Representative Nancy Smith, Maine William Loughmiller, Loughmiller Inc. Stan Garbacz, Nebraska Department. of Agriculture
3:00 pm – 3:15 pm Kachina Foyer	Break
3:15 pm – 4:15 pm  Room to be assigned	Concurrent Sessions/Roundtables How Do We Help Livestock Managers Deal with Regulations and Environmental Issues?  Aaron Putze, Executive Director, Coalition to Support Iowa’s Farmers Key Factors Influencing Public Opinion on Agriculture Jay Byrne, President, V-Fluence Interactive Water Rights;  Ensuring Adequate Water for Agriculture and Rural Communities Clive Strong, Deputy Attorney General, Idaho How Can States Bring Internet to Rural Communities? Fred Ziari, CEO, EZ Wireless Sharon Strover, Professor, University of Texas Local Food Systems—A New Crop of Ideas Christine Pardee, Iowa
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm Room to be assigned	Concurrent Sessions/Roundtables Can Agritourism Really Invigorate Rural Communities? Susan Ryan, Assistant Professor of Travel and Tourism, California University of Pennsylvania Where is the Animal Rights Movement Headed?  How Can States Respond to Animal Rights Activists? Kay Johnson, President, Animal Agriculture Alliance WTO, Trade Policy and the Farm Bill Robert Stumberg, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center Property Rights and Farmland.  What is Next?  How Do States Respond to Sprawl? Jimmy Daukus, Manager, Farm Policy Reform, American Farmland Trust State Approaches to Methamphetamine Marvin Van Haaften, Director, Iowa Office of Drug Control Policy
6:00 pm – 6:30 pm Hopi Ballroom	State Wine Tasting
6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Hopi Ballroom	Dinner How Agriculture and Rural Communities Respond to Natural Disasters Bob Odom, Commissioner, Department of Agriculture and Forestry, Louisiana
8:00 pm – 9:00 pm	Ancillary Group time Time for attendees to gather to discuss additional issues Speak to staff before dinner Saturday if you wish to host a group
9:00 pm – 11:00 pm Presidential Suite, 4th Floor, Guest Rooms Building	Hospitality Suite

Sunday, January 22

7:15 am – 8:00 am  Kachina Foyer	Breakfast Buffet
8:00 am – 8:30 am       Kachina Ballroom	SARL Elections and Questions Doug Jones and Roger Thomas
8:45 am – 9:15 am	2007 Farm Bill Context Overview Otto Doering, Professor, Purdue University
9:15 am – 10:15 am	View from DC regarding the Farm Bill Bryan Dierlam, Congressional House Agricultural Committee, Majority Office Chip Conley, Congressional House Agricultural Committee, Minority Office
10:15 am – 12:00 pm	State Responses—Open Discussion Facilitator:  Otto Doering
12:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm	Adjourn Optional Post-Summit Review Session