Session: Symposium --Meeting the Demand for Food, Feed, Fiber, and Biofuels: Impacts and Production Practices

Tuesday, 7 October 2008: 8:20 AM

George R. Brown Convention Center, 371B

Presiding:

John Shanahan

8:20 AM

8:30 AM

Advances in Crop Genetics Will Help to Meet the Raw Material Quantity and Quality Demands of the Biofuels Industry.
Doug Haefele, Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.

9:00 AM

627-2

Responding to Future Biofuel/Grain Needs - The Role of Geospatial Technologies.
Paul E. Fixen, International Plant Nutrition Institute

9:30 AM

627-3

Soil Carbon Sequestration/storage: Will Agricultural Production Systems Will Meet Production and Environmental Goals?.
David Clay, South Dakota State University; W. W. Wilhelm, USDA-ARS; Francis J. Pierce, Washington State University

10:00 AM

Break

10:15 AM

627-4

Biofuel Feedstock Production: Economic and Environmental Implications.
T. Randall Fortenbery, Univ of Wisc - Madison

10:45 AM

627-5

Landscape and Species Diversity: Optimizing the Use of Land and Species for Biofuel Feedstock Production Systems.
Gregg Johnson, University of Minnesota; Ryan Thelemann, University of Minnesota; Craig Sheaffer, University of Minnesota; Hans-Joachim Jung, USDA-ARS; Ulrike Tschirner, University of Minnesota; Sudipto Banerjee, University of Minnesota; Katie Petersen, University of Minnesota; Donald L. Wyse, University of Minnesota

11:15 AM

Panel Discussion

11:45 AM

Adjourn

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