Policy for the 21st Century

The John Pesek Colloquium on Sustainable Agriculture was created to honor the seminal contribution John Pesek made to the field of alternative or sustainable agriculture and to bring issues in sustainable agriculture to both a university and a community forum. Each year, a two-day Colloquium presents a lecture that takes place on the campus of Iowa State University and a public forum off-campus that encourages discussion and community response to points raised in the lecture. The first day features a nationally known speaker with an important link to sustainable agriculture; the second day is organized as a community forum and panel discussion. The purpose of this structure is to recognize and bring out the contributions to sustainable agriculture made at the local, grass-roots level as well as at the national or international level.

The 2004 Pesek Colloquium speaker was Daryll E. Ray, the Blasingame Chair of Excellence in Agricultural Policy, professor of agricultural economics and director of the Agricultural Policy Analysis Center (APAC) at the University of Tennessee.

Listed are links to the 2004 lecture and slide show presentations

Published Lecture
Lecture Slides