Placing the Farm Bill’s Fate in a Rural Economic Perspective
Placing the Farm Bill’s Fate in a Rural Economic Perspective
Co-hosted by Rural Partners
Thursday, April 17 at 12 PM CT
Presented by: Jonathan Coppess, Associate Professor, Agricultural and Consumer Economics; Director of the Gardner Agriculture Policy Program, College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences
Join University of Illinois Extension and Rural Partners for a free webinar presented by Jonathan Coppess, University of Illinois’ lead Farm Bill expert, whose experience in federal policymaking guides his research, extension, and teaching in agricultural policy and law. Participants can expect a discussion around any rural development implications around potential changes in the Farm Bill and related policy, including issues key to rural development leaders and any additional considerations for agricultural communities.
About the speaker:
Jonathan Coppess is the Leonard and Lila Gardner-Illinois Farm Bureau Family of Companies Endowed Associate Professor of Agricultural Policy in the Department of Agricultural & Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of The Fault Lines of Farm Policy: A Legislative and Political History of the Farm Bill, he is a member of the farmdoc project and a frequent contributor to farmdoc daily. He leads the Gardner Agricultural Policy Program and the Policy Design Lab. Jonathan previously served as Chief Counsel for the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, as well as on a temporary, part-time basis as a special counsel. Prior to his service on the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee, Jonathan served as the Administrator of the Farm Service Agency at USDA and Legislative Assistant to Senator Ben Nelson. Prior to his time in Washington, DC, Jonathan was a litigation associate at Freeborn & Peters LLP in Chicago, IL. Jonathan grew up on his family’s farm in Western Ohio, earned his Bachelors’ from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and his Juris Doctor from The George Washington University Law School in Washington, DC.