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Agricultural Outlook Forum Live Stream

Feb 20, 2014

Click to Watch live as Secretary Tom Vilsack presents USDA's first release of preliminary data from the new Census of Agriculture.


WHAT: 
Agricultural Outlook Forum 2014: The Changing Face of Agriculture

Watch live as Secretary Tom Vilsack presents USDA's first release of preliminary data from the new Census of Agriculture.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will moderate two general session panels on the Future of Agriculture and young farmers.

USDA's Chief Economist Joseph Glauber will deliver the 2014 Agricultural & Foreign Trade Outlooks.

WHEN: 
Thursday, February 20, 2014 
8:00 AM ET - 12:15 PM ET

WHO: 
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack 
Deputy Secretary Krysta Harden 
Joseph Glauber, USDA Chief Economist

Morning Plenary Panel Discussions:

Administrator of the U. S. Agency for International Development Rajiv Shah; President of the Produce Marketing Association Cathy Burns; and Kellee James, founder and CEO of Mercaris, a market trading platform for organic agricultural commodities.

Executive Director of the Farmer Veteran Coalition Michael O'Gorman; Joanna Carraway, a young Kentucky farmer who won the 2013 Top Producer Horizon Award; Greg Wegis, who operates a 17,600-acre vegetable and nut farm in California; and the Interim Director of the National Young Farmers Coalition, Emily Oakley.