The Upstate Institute at Colgate University will hold a panel discussion on “The Past, Present, and Future of the Dairy Industry in Central NY” on Friday, September 27 at 3:00 pm in Persson Auditorium at Colgate University. The event is free and open to the public.
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Panelists include Kirk Kardashian ‘00, journalist and author of Milk Money: Cash, Cows and the Death of the American Dairy Farm (read more in the Colgate Scene); Douglas Harper, professor at the McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts at Duquesne University and author of Changing Works: Visions of a Lost Agriculture; Sheila Marshman, professor of agricultural business at Morrisville State College and a recognized agricultural advocate; Bruce Rivington, owner of Red Gate Farm and Kriemhild Dairy Farms, LLC; and a representative from Chobani.
This event is organized by Christopher Henke, Associate Professor of Sociology and the Gretchen Hoadley Burke ’81 Endowed Chair in Regional Studies. Henke is currently teaching an environmental studies and sociology course at Colgate called “Food” which looks at where food comes from, how it is produced, and how it is embedded in our economic, political, and cultural institutions.
