2009 Shivvers Memorial Lecture

Why Don't We Have Sustainable Agriculture Now?

The Roles Research, Policy, and Market Power Must Play If We Are to Move Forward

Sponsored bythe Leopold Centerfor Sustainable Agriculture, the ISU chapter of Gamma Sigma Delta Honorary Society for Agriculture and the ISU Committee on Lectures (funded by GSB)
March 1, 2009
Ames

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.

Richard Levins, professor emeritus of applied economics at the University of Minnesota, gives the 2009 Shivvers Memorial Lecture on March 1, 2009, at Iowa State's Memorial Union.

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