Can Iowa Agriculture Survive
Dr. Jeremy Jackson and Seth Watkins
Wednesday, 30 Oct 2019 at 3:00 pm – Design 101
Mr. Seth Watkins and Dr. Jeremy Jackson will discuss one of the most popular and critical topics of study at Iowa State University and the rest of the state of Iowa, which is the environmental, socio-cultural and economic effects of Iowa’s current agricultural system within and outside of its borders. Dr. Jackson is emeritus professor of oceanography at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography where he led the Center for Marine Biodiversity. He studies threats and solutions to human impacts on the environment and the ecology and evolution of tropical seas. Seth Watkins is the fourth generation of his family to care for Pinhook Farm, which was established near Clarinda in 1846. Today Pinhook Farm includes both owned and rented acres that support a beef cow calf operation, crop production, and an outfitting business.Cosponsored By:
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
- Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology
- Entomology
- Global Resource Systems
- Graduate Program of Sustainable Agriculture
- Horticulture
- Leopold Center
- Natural Resources Ecology and Management
- Wallace Foundation
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