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Holy Ground, Right Under Our Feet

Agriculture and Climate

Saturday, December 5, 2015

8:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Alphonse J. Schwartze Memorial

Catholic Center 2207 West Main

Jefferson City, Missouri

For more information contact: bross@cccnmo.org 573-635-7719

Registration Form 2015 Rural Life Day

Name: Address: City: State/Zip: Phone: Email: Mail this form and pre-registration fee of $25 per person to: Rural Life Day/CCCNM P.O. Box 104626 Jefferson City, MO 65110 Make checks payable to: Rural Life Day/CCCNMO

Schedule 8:00 Registration

8:45 Opening Prayer – Rev. Dr. John Bennett

Welcome - Barbara Ross

9:00 Laudato Si, Pope Francis Speaks of Earth and Spirit – Sr. Paulette Zim-

merman SSND

10:15 Break

10:30 Sr. Paulette con’t

11:30 Integrated Pest Management the Key to Agricultural Sustainability -

Jamie Piñero, PhD

12:00 Locally grown and prepared lunch

12:45 Dr. Jamie Piñero con’t.

1:15 Impacts of Weather Dynamics: Onset, Spread, and Management of Vege-

table Diseases – Zelalem Mersha, Ph.D.

2:15 Break

2:30 Missouri Climate Trends: Past, Present and Future – Pat Guinan, Ph.D.

4:00 Closing Prayer– Rev. Dr. John Bennett

Meals provided for

prepayments only

Rural Life Day 2015 Keynote Presentations Keynote Presentations

Sr. Paulette Zimmerman

Sr. Paulette Zimmerman has been a School Sister of Notre Dame for 48 years. For eight-years she had a ministry as co-ordinator for justice, peace, and the integ-rity of creation in her own Midwest prov-ince of the SSND’s. Most recently, she is beginning new efforts to open up the hid-den treasures in the 40,000 words of Pope Francis’ new encyclical Laudato Si’, how we can engage with it, and work to-ward preservation of our shared planet and each other.

Holy Ground,

Right Under Our Feet

Agriculture and Climate

Sometimes a sad reality becomes so all pervasive to so many people that it cannot be ignored, in fact, they literally feel it. To ignore such a reality would only cause the problems to deepen, perhaps ending in widespread catastrophe. Such is the current state of climate change. Rapid changes in the climate are having devastating impacts on the nat-ural world around the globe, and as always the poorest and the weakest disproportionately suffer the ill effects. This year’s Rural Life Day, Holy Ground, Right Under Our Feet: Agricul-ture and Climate, seeks to explore the consequences of a rapidly chang-ing climate on people and the whole of the natural world and what might be done to stop or mitigate the negative impacts. We will look at the moral and theological underpinnings that call us to strengthen our resolve to act and make us more attune to and under-standing of the interconnectedness of all creation. Sr. Paulette Zimmerman, SSND will lead us through the big ideas and highlights of Pope Francis’ highly-regarded recent encyclical on the envi-ronment Laudato Si-Praise Be, and guide us through group discussions. As well, we will look at over 120 years of climate data with state clima-tologist, Dr. Pat Guinan. Agricultural researchers from Lincoln Universi-ty, Dr. Jaime Piñero and Dr. Zelalem Mersha, will look at the agricultural science and practices that can help us mitigate negative impacts of rapid climate change on food and agriculture. There will be opportunities for participants to discuss the personal choices they might make to reflect concern for the health and wellbeing of our planet and future generations. And, we will look for strategies that move us toward engagements that would create public policies focused on saving the Earth and all that it holds for the good of “one human family” and all Creation. Please join us on Saturday, December 5th.

Dr. Jaime Piñero, is a State Extension Special-ist working on Integrated Pest Management (IPM) at Lincoln University. His research fo-cuses on the development of effective and affordable ecologically-based pest manage-ment strategies that are compatible with sus-tainable /organic agriculture.

Dr. Zelalem Mersha

Dr. Mersha is a State Extension Specialist in Plant Pathology, at Lincoln University. His research is in Plant Pathology and Epide-miology with a major focus on weather/plant/pathogen inter-action.

Dr. Pat Guinan

Dr. Pat Guinan is the State Climatolo-gist for Missouri, Director of the Mis-souri Climate Center, and is co-coordinator of the Community Col-laborative Rain, Hail and Snow net-work in Missouri. He operates a statewide network of 31 automated weather stations.

Dr. Jaime Piñero