U.S.-German Forum Future Agriculture 2024 Project Cohort
The U.S.-German Forum Future Agriculture’s second cohort will focus on northern Germany (Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein) and the U.S. Northeast (Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont). In addition to the fundamental social, economic, and political importance of agriculture for rural regions, the second cohort will focus in particular on the core issue of the digital transformation of dairy and beef farming. The project will involve eleven online workshops and a five-day in-person meeting of 16 U.S. and German farmers and other agricultural stakeholders in Kiel, Germany, from May 13 to May 17.
The Aspen Institute Germany this years participants of the 2024 cohort include: Courtney Banach (Daona Farm); Daniel Barnes (Barnes Black & Whiteface Ranch); Jan Brokering (Bokering Family Farms); Heather Donahue (Balfour Farm); Agnes Greggersen (Ferienhof Greggersen); Bethany Hodge (Echo Farm, Inc); Patrick Honcoop (AgTech-Pro LLC); Caroline Smit (Rieder Milch KG); Julie Ann Smith (Maine Farmers Coalition); Annika Stange (State Office for Agriculture and Sustainable Rural Development for the State of Schleswig-Holstein); Shep Stearns (Mountain Dairy); Annika Thies (Thünen Institute of Market Analysis); Jens Wester (Wester GbR; Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V.); Stephan Westrup (Westrup-Koch Milch GbR); Kirsten Wosnitza (Owner/Self-employed Dairy Farmer); Daniel Wunderlich (New Jersey Department of Agriculture).
The publication “Recommendations for the Digital Transformation of Agriculture for the National Level and Transatlantic Cooperation” is available online.
Forum Future Agriculture Meeting – Kiel, Germany (May 13th-17th, 2024)
The project is supported by the Transatlantic Program of the Federal Republic of Germany, funded by the European Recovery Program (ERP) of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection (BMWK).
