Henry A. Wallace Chair for Sustainable Agriculture

Advisory Committee

Members

George Boody, Executive Director, Land Stewardship Project, White Bear Lake, MN

Robert Fleming, Landscape Architect, Philadelphia, PA

Jerry Peckumn, Farmer and Environmentalist, Jefferson, IA

Peg Petrzelka, Associate Professor, Utah State University, Logan, UT

Richard Schultz, Professor, Iowa State University, Ames, IA

Jennifer Steffen, Farmer and Iowa State Soil Conservation Commission member, Birmingham, IA

Robert P. King, Professor, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota

Craig Cox, Midwest Vice President of Environmental Working Group

Eric Franzenburg, Farmer and member Practical Farmers of Iowa Board of Directors, Van Horne, Iowa

Advisory Committee Selection and Duties

The Advisory Committee members are appointed by the Dean of Agriculture and Life Sciences and serve terms of three to five years on a rotational basis. The Committee includes one representative named by 1) the Wallace Genetic Foundation, 2) Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., 3) the Advisory Board of the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, 4) the Practical Farmers of Iowa, and five additional members representing academic, agricultural, societal, and environmental interest. The Committee assesses the direction and future needs of the Chair and provides timely, recurring advice, guidance, direction, and support to the Chair and the Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

"Freedom in a grown-up world is different from freedom in a pioneer world. As a nation matures, the traffic inevitably gets denser, and you need more traffic lights."

--H. A. Wallace