2009 Shivvers Memorial Lecture: Richard Levins, Why Don't We Have Sustainable Agriculture Now?
Date: Sunday, March 1st, 2009 
Start: 2:30 pm
Location: Ames, Iowa
Richard Levins, professor emeritus of applied economics at the University of Minnesota, has written Market Power for Farmers: What It Is, How to Get It, How to Use It. He has contributed to Hoard's Dairyman, Successful Farming and has appeared on CNN's In the Money program. His book, Willard Cochrane and the American Family Farm, recounts the story of farm policy and family farming in the twentieth century.
This lecture has been presented at ISU since 1969 in memory of John Shivvers, who farmed near Knoxville. The lectures focus on ways in which agriculture can sustain rather than destroy natural resources.
This lecture was sponsored by the Leopold Center, the ISU chapter of the Gamma Sigma Delta Honorary Society for Agricutlure and the ISU Committee on Lectures (funded by GSB).
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