Public Sector and University Response to the Needs of the Sustainable Agriculture Community
Thursday, February 14, 2008 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
A longtime leader in national and international sustainable agriculture, Kirschenmann holds a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Chicago, and has written extensively about ethics and
agriculture. He has served on several national and international boards, including the USDA's National organic Standards Board. He is a distinguished fellow of the Leopold Center for Sustainable
Agriculture at Iowa State University. Kirschenmann is from south central North Dakota where he manages his family's 3,000 acre certified organic farm. He assumed management of the family farm in 1976
when his father became ill. By 1980k the farm was certified organic, one of the early operations to make the transition. The farm is a natural prairie livestock grazing system that combines a
none-crop rotation of cereal grains, forages, and green manure. Kirschenmann Family Farms has been featured in national publications including National Geographic, the Smithsonian, Audubon, Business
Week, the LA Times and Gourmet magazine. In 1995, Kirschenmann was profiled in an award winning video, "My Father's Garden," by Miranda Productions, Inc. Kirschenmann will be giving the keynote
presentation for the 2008 OSU Extension Small Farm and Farm Direct Marketing Conference being held on Saturday, Feb. 16 at the Alumni Center. The title of his conference address is Small Farms:
Agriculture of the Past, or Agriculture of the Future?
