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| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:center; font-size:12pt;"><strong><u><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Iowa 2020: Farmers, Soil and Climate – Solutions for America</span></u></strong></p> | |
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| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:center; font-size:12pt;"><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Campaign Surrogates and Speakers</span></strong></p> | |
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| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><strong><u><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">5 Campaign Surrogates </span></u></strong></p> | |
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| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">1. </span><strong><u><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Steyer's surrogate</span></u></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> is Wendy Millet - Ranch Director</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> </span></p> | |
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| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">2. </span><strong><u><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Warren's surrogate</span></u></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> John Russell is an Ohio family farmer & </span><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Warren’</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">s Iowa Rural Political Coordinator. </span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">& former Democratic candidate for Congress from Galena, Ohio. </span></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> </span></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Russell currently serves as the Rural Political Coordinator for presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren in Iowa. He has travelled extensively across the state and worked with dozens of Iowa farmers to help draft Senator Warren’s progressive Plan for Rural America and New Farm Economy platform.</span></p> | |
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| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">3. </span></strong><strong><u><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Biden's surrogate</span></u></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> is </span><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">John Whitaker,</span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> an Iowa farmer and former Iowa State House of Representatives. </span></p> | |
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| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">John served 7 years in the Iowa House of Representatives and 10 years on the Van Buren County Board of Supervisors, chairing the Board during a portion of that time. </span></p> | |
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| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">In 2009, John was appointed the Iowa State Executive Director of USDA’s Farm Service Agency in the Obama Administration, where he oversaw the delivery of Federal farm programs. </span></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> </span></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">These programs included disaster assistance, conservation, commodity and price support programs and farm loans and are designed to improve the economic stability of the agricultural industry and to help farmers adjust production to meet demand. These programs are delivered by 100 local county offices throughout Iowa. </span></p> | |
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| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">His affiliations have included the Iowa Farmers Union, serving as Vice President and later President. He also enjoys membership in the Hillsboro Baptist Church, Pheasants Forever and Ducks Unlimited. </span></p> | |
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| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">4. </span><strong><u><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Klobuchar's surrogate</span></u></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> is </span><strong><u><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Dave Frederickson</span></u></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">, former Minnesota Agriculture Commissioner - former President of National Farmers Union 2002 to 2006</span></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> </span></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Served as the Minnesota Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Agriculture from January, 2011 to 2019, and previously as a member of the Minnesota Senate from West Central Minnesota from 1987 to 1993.</span></p> | |
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| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">After Frederickson's service in the legislature concluded, he was elected president of the Minnesota Farmers Union, serving from 1991 to 2002. In 2002, he was elected president of the National Farmers Union the second largest general farm organization in the country.</span></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> </span></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">5. </span><strong><u><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Sander</span></u></strong><strong><u><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">’s surrogate</span></u></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> is </span><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Chris Neubert</span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> – </span><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Bernie Rural Political Coordinator in Iowa</span></strong></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Fullbright Scholar, University of North Carolina PhD candidate and former CCI organizer. </span></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Speaker Bios</span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">:</span></p> | |
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| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">1. </span><strong><u><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Finian Makepeace</span></u></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">: </span><u><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Kiss the Ground</span></u><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> – Co-Founder – Soil Health Advocate</span></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> </span></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Title</span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">: “Rebuilding Healthy Soil: The Opportunities and Solutions”</span></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> </span></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Finian Makepeace is the </span><strong><u><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">co-founder of Kiss the Ground</span></u></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> and a </span><strong><u><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">renowned presenter, media creator, and thought leader</span></u></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> in the field of </span><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">regenerative agriculture and soil health</span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">. </span></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> </span></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">His dedication to Kiss the Ground’s mission of “inspiring participation in global regeneration, starting with soil”, has motivated him to develop training programs, workshops, and talks designed to empower people around the world to become confident advocates for this growing movement.</span></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> </span></p> | |
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| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">2. </span><strong><u><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Dennis Todey</span></u></strong><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> – </span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Director of the Midwest Climate Hub in </span><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Ames </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">– Iowa</span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> </span></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> </span></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Title</span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">: “Changing Climate and Impacts on Midwest Agriculture”</span></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> </span></strong></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Dennis Todey</span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> is the Director of the Midwest Climate Hub in Ames. He is </span><strong><u><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">a native Iowan</span></u></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> with his </span><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">BS and PhD from Iowa State in Meteorology and Agricultural Meteorology</span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">. </span></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> </span></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">He has spent two stints in South Dakota, first completing his MS at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology and most recently as Associate Professor and State Climatologist for South Dakota at South Dakota State University. He is well known regionally as a speaker and media source on various climate issues and is the former president of the American Association of State Climatologists. </span></p> | |
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| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">3. </span><strong><u><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Francis Thicke</span></u></strong><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">: Iowa Organic Dairy Farmer – Owner of Radiance Dairy in Fairfield Iowa.</span></strong></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> </span></strong></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Title</span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">: “How Regenerative Agriculture Can Work at the Farm Level”</span></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> </span></strong></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Francis Thicke</span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">, with his wife Susan, is the owner and operator of an organic dairy and crop farm near Fairfield, Iowa. They process their milk on the farm and market organic dairy products through local grocery stores and restaurants. </span></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> </span></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">They are also experimenting with regenerative grazing and cropping practices on their farm. </span><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Francis has a Ph.D. in agronomy/soil fertility</span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> and has in the past served as the </span><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">National Program Leader for Soil Science</span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> for the USDA-Extension Service.</span></p> | |
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| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><strong><u><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">11:30 AM</span></u></strong><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> --- Keynote Speaker</span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">: </span></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> </span></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">4. </span><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Francis Moore Lapp</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">é</span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> - International bestselling author Diet for a Small Planet</span></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> </span></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Title</span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">: "The Erosion of Democracy: Digging to the Roots of the Farm Crisis" </span></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> </span></strong></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Frances Moore Lappé</span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> is the author or coauthor of </span><strong><u><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">nineteen books</span></u></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">, including the three-million copy </span><strong><u><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Diet for a Small Planet</span></u></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">. Her latest work is </span><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Daring Democracy: Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want</span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">, coauthored with </span><u><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Adam Eichen</span></u><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">, focusing on the roots of the U.S. democracy crisis and how Americans are creatively responding to the challenge. </span></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> </span></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Frances is </span><u><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">co-founder of Oakland-based Food First and the </span></u><strong><u><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Cambridge-based Small Planet Institute</span></u></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">, which she leads with </span><strong><u><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">her daughter Anna Lapp</span></u></strong><strong><u><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">é</span></u></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">. The recipient of nineteen honorary degrees, Frances has been a visiting scholar at MIT and U.C. Berkeley and in 1987 received the Right Livelihood Award, often called the “</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Alternative Nobel.</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">”</span></p> | |
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| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">12:00 PM</span></strong></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">5. </span><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Joe Walsh</span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> – former Republican Congressman – current Republican Presidential Candidate</span></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> </span></strong></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Joe Walsh is a former Illinois congressman elected to Congress in the Tea Party wave of 2010</span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">. From day one, Joe went to Washington hellbent on shaking up the political establishment, and that he did. He was one of the most outspoken members of Congress, advocating for a balanced budget amendment, term limits, common-sense tax cuts, and a range of free-market conservative principles.</span></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> </span></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">His time in office was just one chapter in a life devoted to public service and advocacy for limited government policies. Following his service in Congress, Walsh became one of the most popular conservative talk radio hosts in the country, syndicated in major markets throughout the U.S.</span></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> </span></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">A native of Illinois, Joe grew up the middle of nine children in an Irish Catholic family with deep midwestern roots. He attended Grinnell College, the University of Iowa, and the University of Chicago, where he earned a master's degree in public policy. </span></p> | |
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| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">LUNCH </span></strong></p> | |
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| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">1:00 PM</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">---- Tom Steyer Campaign</span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> representative: </span></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> </span></strong></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">6.</span><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> Kelly Webster</span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> - Food Advocacy Manager – TomKat Ranch – </span></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> </span></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">TomKat Ranch is an 1,800 acre grassfed cattle ranch</span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our team of ranchers, scientists, and advocates look to nature to guide our landscape management in support of our values. Over the next five years, we want to have inspired the transition of one million acres of California rangeland to regenerative management.</span></p> | |
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| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Our mission is to provide healthy food on working lands in a way that regenerates the planet and inspires others to action.</span></p> | |
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| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">7.</span><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> Patty Edelburg</span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> – </span><strong><u><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Vice President NFU</span></u></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> – Wisconsin dairy farmer</span></p> | |
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| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><strong><u><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Title</span></u></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">: “Surviving the Current Farm Crisis and How it is Changing Rural America”</span></p> | |
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| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Patty Edelburg has been serving as the Vice President of the National Farmers Union in March of 2018. The National Farmers Union is the second largest general farm organization representing 200,000 farm families.</span> | |
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| <br><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Edelburg was appointed by the Obama Administration to serve as the Wisconsin Farm Service Agency (FSA) State Executive Director in April 2016 and played an instrumental role in the implementation of programs across the Wisconsin as a result of the 2014 Farm Bill.</span> | |
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| <br><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Patty and her husband Gary own and operate a dairy farm milking 130 registered Holsteins</span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">. 150 youngstock and </span><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">farm 350 acres of corn and alfalfa</span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> in Amherst Junction, Wisconsin. </span></p> | |
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| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">8.</span><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> George Naylor</span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> –- Iowa farmer, past president National Family Farm Coalition -- “Parity or Disparity?</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> </span><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">A Question for Our Whole Society”</span></p> | |
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| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><strong><u><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">George Naylor has been farming his family’s farm since 1976</span></u></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> choosing to never raise GMO crops. George and his wife Patti began 6 years ago transitioning the farm to organic. Last year George, </span><strong><u><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Patti, and his sons Dylan and Jackson celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Naylor farm</span></u></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">. Their </span><strong><u><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">new farm project is an organic cider apple orchard</span></u></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">. George was a member of the </span><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">first Iowa Corn Promotion Board</span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> and was active in the </span><strong><u><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">1980’s Iowa Farm Unity Coalition</span></u></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">. In the early 2000’s he served as president of the National Family Farm Coalition and was a lead plaintiff in a national lawsuit against Monsanto. He currently serves on the boards of the Center for Food Safety and Family Farm Defenders.</span></p> | |
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| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">9.</span><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> Chris Petersen </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">– Iowa Family Hog Farmer – raises Berkshire Pork </span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">and active in the Democratic Party politics</span></p> | |
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| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">A native Iowan, Chris Petersen has been a traditional, independent, family farmer in Iowa for over 45 years. He and his wife currently raise sustainable Berkshire hogs and organic hay on their farm near Clear Lake, Iowa He has been a local, state and national leader and vocal advocate for independent family farm agriculture in politics and through organizations such as past president of Iowa Farmers Union, OCM (Organization for Competitive Markets) Board member, Cofounder of the Iowa Alliance for Responsible Agriculture, SRAP (Socially Responsible Agricultural Project), and many other Boards, Commissions, and grassroots advocacy groups.</span></p> | |
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| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">10.</span><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> John Ikerd, Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Economics – University of Missouri – </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Columbia </span></strong></p> | |
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| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Title: </span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">“Rethinking Farm Policy: A Green New Deal for Family Farmers.”</span></p> | |
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| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">John Ikerd, Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Economics</span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">, was raised on a small dairy farm in southwest Missouri and received his BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees in agricultural economics from the University of Missouri. He worked in private industry for a time and spent thirty years in various professorial positions at four different state universities before retiring in early 2000. Since retiring, he spends most of his time writing and speaking on issues related to sustainability with an emphasis on agriculture and economics. He is the author of six books.</span></p> | |
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| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">11.</span><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> Aaron Lehman</span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> – is President Iowa Farmers Union and a 5</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:8pt;"><sup>th</sup></span><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> generation Iowa family farmer</span></p> | |
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| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Title</span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">: “Farmers Making a Difference”</span></p> | |
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| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Aaron is a fifth-generation family farmer from rural Polk County</span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">, where he and his family raise corn, soybeans, oats, and hay in both organic and conventional rotations. Aaron was elected to serve as the IFU president in 2016 and had served as the IFU vice president immediately prior to his election. He also has served as the executive director and legislative director for IFU and on the National Farmers Union Policy Committee. Aaron is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University.</span></p> | |
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| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">He is a member of Practical Farmers of Iowa and the Iowa chapter of the National Farmers Organization. Aaron and his wife Nicole have two children, Jordan and Benjamin.</span></p> | |
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| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">12.</span><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> Ethan Vorhes</span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">:</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> </span><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Vorhes Farms, Hemp Feed Coalition</span></p> | |
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| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Title</span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">: “Hemp and the Regenerative Farm”</span></p> | |
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| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Ethan Vorhes and </span><strong><u><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">his family raise beef, pork, and poultry on a non-GMO grain farm in Northern Iowa</span></u></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">. Ethan worked the last 2 years to transplant his farming operation to a hemp-legal state. He sees an opportunity to produce natural hemp-feed livestock to produce non-commodity meat with an advantageous flavor profile and a unique nutritional story. This aggressive pivot from traditional agriculture led Ethan to be a stakeholder in Colorado’s hemp fed feasibility study group. </span> | |
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| <br><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Ethan is a steering committee member of the HIA-led hemp feed coalition. </span><u><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Ethan believes that hemp can help struggling family farms with a high market value product that simultaneously advances restorative land management</span></u><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">. Federal approval of hemp grain as livestock feed is a vital part of regenerating our environment, economy, rural communities, and society.</span></p> | |
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| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">13.</span><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> Suzan Erem</span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">: </span><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Executive Director and co-founder</span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> of the Sustainable Iowa Land Trust</span></p> | |
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| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Title</span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">: “Mapping our</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> </span><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Values to our Landscape: What Does Iowa's Land Use say about Us?”</span></p> | |
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| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Suzan Erem</span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> is the </span><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Executive Director and co-founder of the Sustainable Iowa Land Trust</span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">. Suzan graduated from the University of Iowa in the mid-1980s and cut her activist teeth on the Farm Crisis of the 1980s when she joined a much larger effort to organize family farmers. </span></p> | |
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| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Returning to Iowa in 2010, she and her husband saw the result of that crisis and the new one in full force - massive monocrop commodity farms, "hog barns" and just a few small farms left. Land had quadrupled in value and no one but large landowners could afford to buy more. After 2 years of catching up with Iowa leaders and researching solutions, she helped organize the Sustainable Iowa Land Trust, which now permanently protects 935 acres across 9 farms in Iowa for natural-friendly table food farming. </span></p> | |
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| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">14.</span><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> Diane Rosenberg</span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> – Co-founder Iowa Alliance for Responsible Agriculture, President & Executive Director – Jefferson County Farmers & Neighbors</span></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:5pt; margin-bottom:5pt; font-size:12pt;"><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Title: </span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">“Factory Farms: It’s Time for a Moratorium”</span></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Diane Rosenberg is co-founder of the Iowa Alliance for Responsible Agriculture, a coalition of community, state, and national organizations advocating for a factory farm moratorium until there are fewer than 100 polluted waters. She is also President and Executive Director of Jefferson County Farmers & Neighbors, Inc. and an Iowa Consultant with the Socially Responsible Agricultural Project. Rosenberg has worked to protect communities and the environment from the impacts of factory farms since 2007.</span></p> | |
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| <p style="margin-top:5pt; margin-bottom:5pt; font-size:12pt;"><strong><u><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">4:00 PM – 2020 Farm Crisis Panel – Moderator Patti Naylor</span></u></strong></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:5pt; margin-bottom:5pt; font-size:12pt;"><strong><u><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">All-Star Family Farmers</span></u></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">: Patty Edelburg, Barb Kalbach, Chris Petersen and Aaron Lehman</span></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Moderator</span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">: </span><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Patti Naylor</span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> – Iowa family farmer – board member of Iowa Organic Association, Family Farm Defenders</span></p> | |
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| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Patti Naylor farms with her husband George Naylor - near Churdan, Iowa</span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> where they grow organic crops and cider apples. She is a </span><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">former board member of Women, Food, and Agriculture Network and served on the Leopold Center Task Force</span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">. In 2018, she ran for Greene County Supervisor. Currently, she is on the </span><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">boards of Iowa Organic Association and Family Farm Defenders</span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">, and on the executive committee of the Sierra Club – Iowa Chapter. In the fall of 2019, Patti traveled to Rome, Italy and Washington, DC as a representative of National Family Farm Coalition, US Food Sovereignty Alliance, and La Via Campesina in meetings of the United Nation’s Committee on World Food Security.</span></p> | |
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| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">15.</span><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> Barb Kalbach: </span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">is a </span><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">4th generation family farmer</span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> – </span><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">past board chair of the Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement Action Fund, CCI Board member</span></strong></p> | |
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| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Barb Kalbach is a 4th generation family farmer from Adair County, Iowa. Barb is a registered nurse and has worked most of her career at one of Iowa’s Critical Access Hospitals in rural Iowa. Most recently, Barb served as board chair of the Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement Action Fund for the past 8 years and now serves as a board member for CCI where she has been an active member of that organization for 18 years. She also serves on the Adair County Memorial Hospital Board, the board of the Henry A. Wallace Foundation and is active in the Adair County Democrats. Barb and her husband Jim Kalbach raise corn and soybeans on their family farm near Dexter in southwestern Iowa. </span></p> | |
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| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Patty Edelberg</span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> – </span><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Vice President of National Farmers Union</span></strong></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Chris Petersen</span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> – Iowa hog farmer</span></p> | |
| <p style="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt;"><strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;">Aaron Lehman</span></strong><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> – 5</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:8pt;"><sup>th</sup></span><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"> generation Iowa family farmer</span></p> | |
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