Farming Today for Tomorrow A Seminar Series Concerning Issues of Sustainable Agriculture CSS 199 section 001 CSS CRN 22065/ Hort 199 section 001 CRN 28270 Wednesdays Winter Term 4:00-5:00 Kidder Hall room 278
The overriding theme of  most issues in agriculture today is sustainability in all it's various facets - environment, economics, social impacts.  The OSU Departments of Crop and Soil Science and Horticulture will present an undergraduate seminar series entitled Farming Today for Tomorrow that will deal with a specific theme of agricultural sustainability.		Syllabus Links to related web pages and other resources Class Assignments Instructors Archived Lectures

Winter Term 2008 - Value Added Agriculture

This seminar series presents both results from scientific research on sustainable agriculture and from the experience of growers seeking to use sustainable agricultural methods in their operations. The theme of the series during the winter quarter 2008 is "Value Added Agriculture", It will cover food, nursery crop and wine production and marketing, highlighting novel approaches of growers/marketers. We will focus on novel techniques to increase the value of the products and markets.
Speakers will include a variety of grower/marketers as well as extension agent and state regulatory viewpoints.

The seminar is open to the public and all are welcome to attend.

Seminars will be held on Wednesday afternoons at 4 p.m. in Kidder Hall, Room 278, OSU campus. The seminars are videotaped and will be rebroadcast on the local cable services access channel 27 in the Corvallis area at 8 pm on the evening of the seminar. This is the OSU education channel.

The seminar is offered for credit as Crop and Soil Science 199 / Horticulture 199 (one credit, pass/no credit). Those enrolled for credit are to attend the seminars and obtain at least 70 out of 100 points distributed as follows: up to 10 points for attendance (1 point per seminar attended), 50 points for quizzes (1 point each for 5 questions for each of 10 seminars), and 40 points for short essays for review of papers related to subject matter in the class (3 essays due the 3rd, 6th and 9th weeks of class). For more details see the link to "class assignments". If a student is not able to attend a seminar, they may view the seminar on TV the same day or DVD if necessary. DVDs will be on reserve in the OSU Library by Thursday of the week of the seminar.

Tentative Seminar Schedule

Previous years of this course series are offered as CSS 499/599 distance course.