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Iowa Learning Farms’ Webinar Focuses on Farmer Identity
Posted 11 January, 2012
Iowa
Learning Farms is again hosting a series of webinars on the third
Wednesday of each month in 2012, a continuation in the series from
2011. The webinars will begin at 11:30 a.m. and will run approximately
45 minutes. Please note that this is a new time from the 2011 webinars.
They are offered through Adobe Connect; all that is needed to
participate is a computer with Internet access.
The topics
discussed will be beneficial for technical service providers, watershed
project coordinators, extension specialists and anyone else interested
in the topic of the month.
The January webinar will be held
Wednesday, Jan. 18 at 11:30 a.m., and will feature Jacqueline Comito,
an anthropologist with the Sociology Department at Iowa State
University.
Comito’s webinar focuses on the rationalization of
two widely circulated aspects of a farmer’s public identity as
articulated by corn and soybean farmers in Iowa: the farmer as a
steward of the land and the farmer as a shrewd business person. Using
qualitative data from 28 listening sessions conducted in Iowa between
2008-2011, Comito will examine how, through an analysis of “public”
data, farmers maintain their identity as good stewards of the land even
though their business identity has them implementing practices that may
result in soil and water degradation.
"If there is any hope in
resolving this tension between economic and ecological challenges,
farmers will need to take the long view and think about what kind of
legacy they will leave," Comito said.
To connect to the webinars, go to here. The ILF website, contains links for archived webinars from previous months. Please contact ILF with topic ideas for future webinar sessions. |
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