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Food Dialogues – Toledo

The next U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance Food Dialogues event is coming to Ohio.

Following last summer’s water crisis in Toledo, when 500,000 people were without water due to harmful algae blooms in Lake Erie, Food Dialogues – Toledo will feature a discussion on the challenges of balancing food production and water quality.

“Making sure that we understand and the consumers understand how committed agriculture is to clean water, at the same time we’re committed to producing food and those things have to be joined together, they have to be cohesive, there has to be collaboration in regulations, there has to be a clear view of how to solve some of the issues that can arise when food production and water quality cross paths, said Randy Krotz, CEO, U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance (USFRA).

Krotz says to include as many people as possible in the discussion, Food Dialogues – Toledo will be streamed online.

“You can go and stream it from the Ohio Farm Bureau, or you can go to FOOD DIALOGUES dot COM, which is the U.S. Farmers and Ranchers website and it’s right there on our home page and you can watch the event right as it occurs,” Krotz said.

Food Dialogues – Toledo will be held Thursday, May 28^th, beginning at 10 a.m. Links to the live stream are available here and here.

Audio: Randy Krotz, CEO, U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance