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| Mr. Hill addresses professionals and producers at field day event |
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Rouge, La – Mr. Odis Hill, Extension Assistant Area Agent – Agriculture and
Natural Resources in Morehouse and Union Parishes will represent the Southern
University Ag Center as speaker in the lecture series honoring George
Washington Carver. Hill will join other distinguished speakers at the second
installment of the George Washington Carver Lecture Series to be held at Tuskegee
University, April 8, 2015. The lecture is themed "Promoting Global Food
Security and Sustainability Through Scientific Innovation in
Agriculture."
The event
which comes on the heels of the inaugural GWC Lecture series in 2014 to
celebrate the 150th birth anniversary of George Washington Carver will be
hosted by the Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. In
continued celebration of Dr. Carver's legacy and the 125th Celebration
of 1890 land grant universities, this second installment will focus on global
food security and sustainable agriculture. The lecture series is expected
to host over 300 agricultural professionals, students, faculty, community
members and other stakeholders.
Other speakers for this event
include Walter
A. Hill, Kokoasse Kpomblekou, and
CS Prakash
(Tuskegee University), Sonny Ramaswamy (USDA), Sherri Brown (Monsanto), Oliver Wilson (Elanco),
Gary
Oppenheimer (Ampleharvest.org), Terrence Williams (Nationwide
Agribusiness), Cameron Bruett (JBS), Mark A. Rasmussen (ISU), Alison Van Eenennaam (UC-Davis), Steven McNulty (USDA
Forest Service), Harry Baumes (USDA), David Isenhour (Dow
AgroSciences).
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