Agricultural Policies

Understanding
Agricultural Policies

How
to wrap your minds around agriculture’s technology and finance policies when
failure to update the Farm Bill causes a required fall back to 1949 rules and
regulations.  Think about it: GMOs,
herbicides, pesticides, agriculture water pollution, aquifer depletion,
antibiotics in livestock, accurate food labeling, consolidation in agriculture
industries, crop subsidies, and the federal agricultural regulatory process.

To
help us make sense of it all, the League of Women Voters Woodbury/Cottage Grove
is hosting Dr. Kent Olson and Dr. Bill Lazarus from the University of Minnesota
Dept. of Applied Economics to address these issues.  Dr. Olson’s expertise includes the
interaction between farming and the environment, and the impact of government
policies.  Dr. Lazarus’s expertise
includes crop and livestock production economics, and agricultural impacts on
water and air quality.  They will help us
understand the current situation in relation to LWVs agriculture policy to “promote
adequate supplies of
food and fiber at reasonable prices to consumers and to support economically
viable farms, environmentally sound farm practices, and increased reliance on
he free market.”

Join
us on Monday, Nov. 18, 7:30 p.m. in the Birch Room at the Woodbury City Hall
Birch Room, 8301 Valley Creek Road.  The
event is free and open to the public.  To
ensure adequate seating, please RSVP to LWVLL@comcast.net

by Nov. 17.