NORTH MANKATO — Agriculture’s impact and response to outbreaks of food-borne illnesses, pandemics and environmental emergencies will be discussed at the 27th annual Rural Legislative Forum 3:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 3, at South Central College Conference Center.
We live in an era in which the agriculture and food industry is constantly being challenged by high-profile food safety, environmental and ethical issues. This forum will attempt to look at how we keep factual information included in the major media efforts related to these sensitive issues affecting the agriculture and food industry.
The keynote speaker will be Dave Preisler, executive director of the Minnesota Pork Producers Association. The response panel will include Joe Spear, managing editor of The Free Press; Paul Omodt, vice president of Padilla Speer Beardsley; and Randy Doyal, CEO of Al-Corn Clean Fuel. Kent Thiesse, vice president of MinnStar Bank, will moderate the panel discussion.
The highlight of the evening session will be a state legislative panel. Legislators representing south-central Minnesota have been invited to address questions related to the forum’s theme and other key issues. Reggie Edwards, executive director of Region Nine Development, will moderate the legislative panel discussion.
Forum sponsors include Minnesota Agri-Women, Minnesota Farm Bureau, South Central Technical College’s Agri-Business Department and Farm Business Management Program, Region Nine Development Commission and University of Minnesota Extension.
Advance registration is required and costs $10 per person. The fee includes a pork chop dinner.
To register, or for more information about the forum, contact the Blue Earth County Extension Office at 304-4325 or mnext-blueearth@umn.edu .
Local News
Ag forum to focus on food safety
- Local News
-
-
Mankato's civic center strategy: Ask for $14.5 million, but plan for less
The city’s strategy to get state money to expand the Verizon Wireless Center is to ask for the full $14.5 million but show the state it can build the project in phases, City Manager Pat Hentges said.
-
City gives thumbs down to chickens
Chickens won’t be coming home to roost in Mankato anytime soon.
-
Attorney plans mental illness defense for stabbing
Requests for search warrants that have been filed with the case also reveal clues Minnesota Security Hospital staff missed when they let Ewing leave the facility with his mother, Marlys Helen Olson of Coon Rapids.
-
Cooperative baseball complex to be christened Saturday
The fledgling community athletic fields at Rosa Parks Elementary School is a joint venture of the city of Mankato, Mankato Area Public Schools and MAYBA.
- Mankato council to talk gay marriage
- City approves new bus routes
-
Highway 93 near Henderson reopened
Highway 93 reopened.
-
Helicopter pilot hospitalized after crash near Delavan
Pilot remains hospitalized after crash near Delavan Friday.
- Storms prompt flood concerns
-
Suffering in Silence, Part 3: Core services remain, but professionals are spread thin
When Irvin Schaefer left the hospital, the first thing he did was sign up for day treatment. It’s a kind of step down from the hospital for people who aren’t ready to live on their own.
- More Local News Headlines
-
Mankato's civic center strategy: Ask for $14.5 million, but plan for less
Sister Says She Reported Brother in Patz Killing
Patz Suspect's Sister: I Went to Police in 1980s
Diplomatic Expulsions Follow Fresh Syria Report
15 Dead in Northern Italy's 5.8-magnitude Quake
Angry Birds Spreading Their Wings
Witness Describes Fla. Face-chewing Attack
Man Falls Off Crane, Dies After Police Standoff
Russia Condemns Ally Syria Over Massacre of 108
Dairy Farm Uses Chiropractor to Help Cows
Unexpected Smog in Pristine National Parks
Air Canada Plane Makes Emergency Landing
New Ticks Spread Across Southeast, Diseases Rise
Bring Your Own Tech Programs Charge Up Students
Pope's Butler Vows to Help Vatican Investigation
Mother of Allegedly Abused Girl Denies Claims
Raw Video: 19 Dead in Qatar Shopping Mall Fire
Service Dogs Help Wash. Soldiers Battling PTSD
Raw Video: Heckler Bursts in on Blair Testimony
Japan Farmers Plant, Seek Radiation-free Rice
