Demonstration Tour
Samy Watson, Deputy Minister, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Dr. Bruce Archibald, Assistant Deputy Minister, AAFC
Ken McCready, Regional Director, AAFC
Workshop Participants
Carl Neggers - Chair
Alan Cessna and Bruce Junkins (speakers) - Session A: How do we measure and monitor the impacts of agriculture on water quality?
Rick Butts (speaker) - Session B: What are the impacts of agriculture on water quality?
Glen Shaw (speaker) - Session C: What are the on-farm practices that we use to reduce the impacts of agriculture on water quality?
Michele Brenning (speaker) - Session D: What can governments do to help reduce the impacts of agriculture on water quality?
Louise Bissonnette (organizer/observer)
Tim Marta (organizer/observer)
Patrick Cherneski (observer/rapporteur)
Patricia Story (observer/rapporteur)
Peggy Burleigh (administrative help)
Canadian Producer Organization Representatives
Noreen Ambrose (Cows and Fish) and Dixon Hammon (Farmer/Producer) - Session E: What can our farmer organizations do to help reduce the impacts of agriculture on water quality?
Doug McKell - Soil Conservation Council of Canada (observer)
Demonstration Tour
Jim Moseley, Deputy Secretary of Agriculture, United States Department of Agriculture
Dawn Riley, Executive Assistant
James Holst, Security for Deputy Secretary Moseley
Felicia Lowe, Security for Deputy Secretary Moseley
Workshop Participants
Jean-Marie Peltier, Environmental Protection Agency (speaker) - Session A: How do we measure and monitor the impacts of agriculture on water quality?
Mike O'Neill, USDA, Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service (speaker) - Session B: What are the impacts of agriculture on water quality?
Tom Christensen, USDA, Natural Resource Conservation Service and(speakers) - Session C: What are the on-farm practices that we use to reduce the impacts of agriculture on water quality?
Marc Ribaudo, USDA, Economic Research Service (speaker) - Session D: What can governments do to help reduce the impacts of agriculture on water quality?
Bill Richards, Farmer - Session E: What can our farmer organizations do to help reduce the impacts of agriculture on water quality?
Adela Backiel, USDA, Office of the Chief Economist - (observer)
Ken Hinga, USDA, Foreign Agricultural Service - (observer/rapporteur)
Ms. Lisette Lopez Gonzalez, Agricultural Minister of Mexico to Canada, Embassy of Mexico to Canada
North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation
Tim Whitehouse
Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture
Dr. Gertjam Beekman
Invited Speaker
Roberto Pieretti, President, Confederation of American Associations for the Production of Sustainable Agriculture (CAAPAS)