Agricultural Policy Links to Farm Households and the Rural Economy A Research and Policy Workshop Sponsored by The National Center for Food and Agricultural Policy The Economic Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture Hart Senate Office Building – Room 902 Friday, May 14, 2004

Agenda (Abstracts are also available)
8:00 - 8:30 am	Welcome and Check-in
8:30 - 9:00 am	Agricultural Policy Links to Farm Households and the Rural Economy: An Introduction
	Susan Offutt, Administrator, Economic Research Service
	Jill Long Thompson, CEO and Senior Fellow, National Center for Food and Agricultural Policy
9:00 - 10:00 am	The “Traditional” Approach to Agricultural Policy and Commodity Markets
	Moderator: Neilson Conklin, Director, Market and Trade Economics Division, ERS
	Ed Young and Paul Westcott, ERS
	Perspectives from outside ERS:
	• Allan Gray, Purdue University
10:00 - 10:15 am	Break
10:15 - 11:15 am	Assessing Farm Policy Effects on Farm Households
	Moderator: Katherine Smith, Director, Resource Economics Division, ERS
	Jim Johnson, Mitch Morehart, and Jeff Hopkins, ERS
	Perspectives from outside ERS:
	• Jill Findeis, Pennsylvania State University
11:15 am - 12:15 pm	Agricultural Policy and Rural Economy Linkages
	Moderator: Leslie Whitener, Chief, Rural Economy Branch, Food & Rural Economics Division, ERS
	David McGranahan and Patrick Sullivan, ERS
	Perspectives from outside ERS:
	• Andrew Isserman, University of Illinois
	• Alton Thompson, North Carolina A&T State University
12:15 - 1:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 - 2:00 pm	Highlighting the Issue
	Dale Moore, Chief of Staff, U.S. Department of Agriculture
2:00 - 2:30 pm	The Next Farm Bill
	Howard (Chip) Conley, Economist for the Minority, U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture
2:30 - 3:30 pm	Where Do We Go From Here?
	Mark Drabenstott, Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

Abstracts are available on the National Center for Food and Agricultural Policy website.

for more information, contact: Leslie Whitener
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