American Farmland Trust: Farm Policy and Protection Discussions Podcasts

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AFT leadership and experts regularly speak at events to discuss farm policy, farmland protection and more. Primary Format : News and Politics Language : English Also Listed as: City : Unknown State/Province : Unknown Country : USA Region : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of American Farmland Trust: Farm Policy and Protection Discussions Podcasts Methings.com listings of American Farmland Trust: Farm Policy and Protection Discussions Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

Farm Bill Subsidy Reform: 20% Reduction in Direct Payments, 30% Reduction in Loan Rates? AFT's Ralph Grossi and Ron Litterer from the National Corn Growers Association take a careful look at the benefits of the new Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) program and how it provides a better safety net for farmers. Recent criticism of the program overlooks the realities of the savings its market-oriented approach will provide. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Farmcast: Smart Growth Meets Smart Food Local Food Tour 2008 Join us as we follow the trail of local food as it winds its way through rural/urban edge farmland in Virginia, to restaurants and customers in Washington DC metro area. The tour highlights the network of relationships and issues that support or threaten the continuing food community connection. Along the way meet up with the people whose forethought and persistence have enabled this local food network to grow. Part of the 2008 New Partners for Smart Growth Conference. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Farmcast: What Do Farmers Want Out of the Farm Bill? Varel Bailey IA, Ernie Avert NC, and  Jim AndrewsIA talk about their recent trips to Washington, DC to speak with lawmakers. Each of them left their farms behind to tell Congress what they were looking for from the new farm bill. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Farmcast: Staff Resolutions for the New Year Making the same resolutions as last year? Watch some American Farmland Trust staff resolutions for 2008 and resolve to turn over a new leaf yourself this year - like trying a new variety of fresh leafy greens from your own garden or a local grower. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Special Video: American Farmland Trust Responds to Senate Farm Bill AFT has worked hard over the last few years to make commodity subsidy reform, conservation programs and healthy, local food a priority in the 2007 Farm Bill. Hear what AFT President Ralph Grossi thinks about the Senate’s Farm Bill and what he sees in the future for the 2007 Farm Bill. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Farmcast: Cooking Up Local Find out more about what it means to cook with locally grown, organic ingredients from Airlie’s Executive Chef Jeff Whitte. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Farmcast: Kids Learn to Farm and Get Healthy In the Edible Schoolyard program at Martin Luther King Junior Middle School in Berkeley, California, students learn how to grow, harvest and prepare nutritious seasonal produce. Watch the Edible Schoolyard’s Kelsey Siegel as he talks about the importance of teaching children about their food, where it comes from and how to be good stewards of the land. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Farmcast: - Episode 3: "Keeping it Brief: Conservation, Local Food & Ending Hunger" The stage has been set for the 2007 Farm Bill, and it’s time to turn priorities into programs—protecting working farms and ranches from sprawl, making local foods more available, encouraging healthy diets and ending hunger in America. Listen to Ralph Grossi and representatives from anti-hunger, nutrition and local food groups talk about the 2007 Farm Bill. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Farmcast: - Episode 2: "Congress Is Talking About Your Food" Think farm policy will never change? Think again. The comprehensive Farm, Nutrition, Community Investment Act promises to strengthen U.S. agriculture and ensure fresh, healthy food supplies while better protecting our environment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Farmcast: "Calling on Congress To Fund Conservation" AFT President Ralph Grossi and others appearing before Congress speak to the importance of funding conservation programs in the upcoming 2007 Farm Bill (debut episode of AFT's Farmcast). [MP3,i2.1 MB, 4:35] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ralph Grossi Gets to the Baseline of Matters AFT President Ralph Grossi discusses the Baseline and the importance of funding conservation programs [MP3, 3 MB, 3:17]. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Next Chapter for Smart Growth: Capacity Building to Institutionalization AFT's CA State Director Ed Thompson, Jr. joins the NPSG keynote plenary and speaks of farmland protection priorities as they relate to smart growth. [MP3, 36.1 MB, 1:18:59] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Implementing the Next Generation of Smart Growth & Farmland Protection AFT's John Miller discusses how sustainable development leads to sustainable agriculture. [MP3, 36.2 MB, 1:19:11] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Opportunities to Redirect Farm Policy: Interview with AFT President Ralph Grossi Ralph Grossi speaks about the 2007 Farm Bill and AFT's recommendations for this once-in-a-generation opportunity to redirect farm policy during an interview with Colleen Callahan of WGFA, Watseka, IL. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Important Time for Congress to "Step-Up" AFT President Ralph Grossi says it's a critical time to increase support for conservation programs in the 2007 Farm Bill. [MP3, 3 MB, 3:18] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Clock is Ticking Ralph Grossi speaks out for an increased budget authority for the 2007 Farm Bill to meet critical needs and increase public benefits [MP3, 2 MB. 4:29]. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tune in to Farm Policy AFT President Ralph Grossi speaks with well-respected farm policy journalist Keith Good, of FarmPolicy.com on the future of the farm bill and AFT’s vision for change. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Safety Net for Producers AFT President Ralph Grossi speaks about the need for a new kind of safety net for producers, and some broader themes that will be important in a redesign of farm policy in 2007. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AFT President Joined by Former U.S. Agriculture Secretaries to Endorse New American Farmland Trust Policies for the 2007 Farm Bill Just four days before the 73rd anniversary of the first farm bill (May 12, 1933), American Farmland Trust (AFT) released Agenda 2007: A New Framework and Direction for U.S. Farm Policy, its policy recommendations to make U.S. agriculture competitive in the 21st Century. This policy framework is the product of more than a year of consultation with hundreds of farmers, ranchers, economists and policy experts. Unlike the 2002 Farm Bill or any proposed short-term extensions, AFT's policy recomm ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Farm Bill Shapes the Food System The Farm and Food Policy Project's Allen Hance discusses this important project [MP3, 4 MB, 4:20]. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Professor Testifies for Conservation Kathleen Merrigan, Ph.D., assistant professor of agriculture, food and environment at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, discusses the need for more funding for conservation [MP3, 3.6 MB, 3:54]. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Good Is A Country Without Farmland? Michael Ableman is a farmer, educator, photographer and writer. He is the Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Urban Agriculture in California and in this special broadcast he shares his photographs and the stories they tell. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ralph Grossi & Farming on the Edge AFT President Ralph Grossi speaks about a new direction for farm policy at AFT's National Farming on the Edge Conference. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "We Are In The Business to Change The World" Gary Hirshberg is chairman, president and CE-Yo of Stonyfield Farm, the world’s largest manufacturer of organic yogurt. Hirshberg was a keynote speaker at AFT's 2006 National Conference. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website