Mobile Poultry Processing Unit Planning Meeting

Research Services Bldg. Room 130

OARDC Wooster Campus

Work is progressing to develop an ODA approved mobile poultry processing unit. A large working group has met several times to brainstorm how a mobile unit and management system could be implemented. We toured the mobile unit that has just been built in Galion, Ohio, that will be shipped to the state of Vermont.

Jill has done a great job starting to pull together some maps on different aspects of the food & farm sector in Ohio.  I have a few thoughts and questions to further refine the information.

Start with a focus on locations at the state level

Show data on producers by type in the greatest detail possible- can we start to identify the "terroir" of different regions of the state or where our "end users" can access various types of product?

Per the conversation at the last Agricultural Viability task force meeting here are two definitions of agricultural economic development for your consideration.  The first is a sythesis of ideas from this group and the second is from Ohio State University.

Potential Food System Nodes to Map 

Producers, mapped by

• Product
• Organic
• Direct
• Wholesale

Direct farmer outlets

Below are the meeting minutes for the August meeting of the Ohio Food Policy Council's Food System Assessment task force

At the most recent meeting of the Food Systems Assessment Task Force, we discussed some of the options for one or more goals that might be set for Ohio food systems.  Having such a target would give specific direction on long-term assessment of food systems and is very important in evaluating the impact of recommendations made by the Council.  Following is a distillation of the ideas generated in the discussion, so that you can be thinking about what the Council might recommend as one or more goals or targets (if you're reading this in your email, click the link after “Read more”).

One more paper on food system distribution, this is the most detailed study I've found of energy use in food distribution.  It was done with the specific intent of comparing local and global food distibution.  This may be a question we want to address and regardless the methods could be useful to the food systems assessment task force.  I think it may also be useful to the Ag Viability and Market Connections task forces.  If you're reading this as an email, just click the link next to "Read More:" to download the attached paper, if you're already on the OLFSC site, the attachment

Attached (on the website that is) is the narrative information on funding and data sources for food systems assessment that Steven Vickner put together for MORPC.

Here are two more papers, preprints, sent to me by Mike Hamm, the CS Mott Chair at MSU, addressing impacts of local food systems on economic development as well as public health.

Following is the link to the Community Farm Alliance home page, on which you'll find the Lexington food assessment done by Univ. of Kentucky faculty and students:

http://www.communityfarmalliance.org/

Please add information on your datasets to the wiki page posted on this working group (click on the title of the wiki page, then on edit), and please come with ideas for an ideal methodology for assessing food distribution in our meeting on Friday.

See you then,

Casey

The meeting minutes from June and July have been approved by the task force and are available for review.  See attachments at the bottom of this message.

Thank you, Amalie Lipstreu, Ohio Department of Agriculture 

Ohio Dept. of Agriculture, Bromfield Bldg., Reynoldsburg, OH

As requested at the last task force meeting, I've created a wiki page that each of you can use to input information about existing data sets that could contribute to food systems assessment. To add information in the table please click on the title of the wiki page (Food Systems Assessment Metadata Table...) to bring the table up, and then choose "edit". Please let me know if there are additional columns that should be added to the table for a more complete record of the available data. Thanks, and we'll look forward to seeing you friday.

Casey

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Data for assessing Ohio's Food System

Sun, 07/13/2008 - 19:51 — Amalie Lipstreu

At the last meeting of the Food Systems Assessment Task Force, the group agreed to look at the following categories of the food system: Production, Processing and Consumption.

Please remember to bring whatever resources, data sets or studies that would help us get a good handle of these three areas of the food system- or feel free to post those resources right here on the Ohio Local Food Systems Collaborative.

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Food System Assessment Task Force

Thu, 07/03/2008 - 10:52 — Amalie Lipstreu

Start: 07/31/2008 - 13:00

End: 07/31/2008 - 15:00

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

The Food System Assessment Task Force of the Ohio Food Policy Council will be meeting on Thursday, July 31st from 1:00-3:00 pm. in room #308 at the Ohio Department of Agriculture. This is part of the ongoing work of the Food Policy Council to collect and analyze information on the production and processing of food in Ohio as well as the patterns of food consumption.

If you have any questions or would like more information, please contact Amalie Lipstreu, Senior Program Manager for Sustainable Agriculture at the Ohio Department of Agriculture, 614.466.6198.

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Resources for Food System Assessment

Fri, 06/27/2008 - 14:18 — Amalie Lipstreu

In speaking with some of the other State level Food Policy Councils it appears that no one has really done baseline/state level assessments. Here is a link to a much broader (United States Food System) assessment. It may help stimulate ideas about our work.

http://css.snre.umich.edu/css_doc/CSS00-04.pdf

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Modeling food system logistics using ExtendSim

Thu, 06/26/2008 - 20:14 — Casey Hoy

This post is mainly for the Food Systems Modeling, GIS and Data group, but I'm including a few other groups that could be interested as well.

• logistics
• simulation
• supply
• systems analysis

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Food Systems Assessment task force meeting - new date options

Fri, 05/09/2008 - 15:26 — Casey Hoy

Well the first batch of dates didn't show much promise so I've edited and added some additional possibilites.

http://www.doodle.ch/zigym8wue9bkycg9

So far the preference seems to be a face to face meeting at a central location. If you have a preference on meeting venue you can add it in a comment on the site.

Amalie, were you or Greg checking with those who weren't able to attend the last meeting on which groups they wanted to sign up for? thanks, Casey

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Food Systems Assessment task force meeting

Wed, 05/07/2008 - 08:28 — Casey Hoy

Since I've used this tool before I'll get the ball rolling on a meeting of the food systems assessment group. Please click the following link, type in your name, and click all of the times that work for you, then click "participate".

http://www.doodle.ch/zigym8wue9bkycg9

I've favored mid-day in case the preference is to travel to a central location and meet in person. If you have a preference on meeting venue you can add it in a comment on the scheduling site.

Regards, Casey

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Ohio Food Policy Advisory Council Task Forces

Tue, 04/29/2008 - 01:11 — Casey Hoy

Working groups for the Ohio Food Policy Advisory Council Task Forces have been set up and you are subscribed to one or more of them. You'll need to login and then select the task force under the groups or Your Groups menu to post messages to the members of this task force. The description of the task force mission was from the draft and will be updated based on today's meeting. If you have been subscribed to a task force in error or wish to join another task force please let me know

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