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Sunday, February 1 –
OPENING PROGRAM
Alternative Energy and Agriculture: Spotlight or Stoplight?
Alternative Energy and Agriculture: Perspectives on Cellulosic Feedstock
and Cellulosic Biorefineries
Francis Epplin,
Department of Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University
Alternative Energy and Agriculture: Spotlight or Stoplight?
Harry S. Baumes,
Ph. D., Associate Director, USDA Office of Energy Policy and New Uses
Biodiesel Research at The University of Georgia
Daniel Geller,
Engineering Outreach, University of Georgia
Monday,
February 2 – CONCURRENT SESSIONS
10:00 am Session
Ag Renewable Energy Papers: Where Has All the Money Gone?
USDA Update: A Systems Approach…Opportunities for Renewable Energy and
Biobased Products
William Goldner,
Ph.D., Chair, Biobased
Product and Bioenergy Coordination Council and National Program Leader,
Competitive Programs, CSREES; and Harry Baumes, Ph.D., Associate
Director, Office of Energy Policy and New
Uses, Office of the Chief Economist
1:00 pm Session
Biofuels: Prospects and Challenges in Development and Policy
Conflicting Environmental
Claims: Analysis of the Discourse Surrounding Biofuels Development in
Russell, KS
Albert Iaroi, Theresa Selfa, and Gerad Middendorf,
Kansas State University
Renewable Energy and the Financial Crisis -- Weathering the Storm
Tony
Crooks,
USDA Rural Development
Cooperative Approaches to Facilitate the Use of Anaerobic Digesters on
Dairy Farms
Biofuels: Prospects and Challenges in Development and Policy
Carolyn Liebrand,
USDA Rural Development
Biofueling Rural Development?
Prospects and challenges at local and global scales
Theresa Selfa and Uma Sarmistha,
Kansas State University, Department of Sociology
Leveraging Farm Policy History to Understand Biofuels and Trade Dynamics
in the 2008 Farm Bill
Nadine Lehrer,
Washington State University
3:00 pm Session
Alternative Fuels: Taking Your Stories to Market(s)
eXtension – more mind reach
Bioenergy – Energy, Fuels and Chemicals from Agriculture
Agricultural Communications, The University
of Georgia
Taking your story to the market
Frankie Gould, LSU AgCenter Communications
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