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U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) Administrator Elanor Starmer speaks during a panel discussion about farmer advocacy with panel moderator Rural Advancement Foundation International – USA Executive Director Scott Marlow and fellow panelists Federation of Southern Co-op Ben F. Burkett, USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) Administrator Val Dolcini, USDA Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights (OASCR) Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Dr. Joe Leonard, and Farmer’s Legal Action Group Deputy Director and Senior Staff Attorney Stephen Carpenter who participate in a panel discussion and answer questions from farmers and advocates in the audience, on Sept. 15, 2016, in Washington, D.C. This was following a screening of Homeplace Under Fire, a film about the frontline, grassroots work of American farm advocates and their thirty-year efforts to keep family farmers on the land. The film is directed by Charles D. Thompson and produced by Farm Aid in cooperation with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. USDA photo by Lance Cheung.
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U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) Administrator Elanor Starmer speaks during a panel discussion about farmer advocacy with panel moderator Rural Advancement Foundation International – USA Executive Director Scott Marlow and fellow panelists Federation of Southern Co-op Ben F. Burkett, USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) Administrator Val Dolcini, USDA Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights (OASCR) Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Dr. Joe Leonard, and Farmer’s Legal Action Group Deputy Director and Senior Staff Attorney Stephen Carpenter who participate in a panel discussion and answer questions from farmers and advocates in the audience, on Sept. 15, 2016, in Washington, D.C. This was following a screening of Homeplace Under Fire, a film about the frontline, grassroots work of American farm advocates and their thirty-year efforts to keep family farmers on the land. The film is directed by Charles D. Thompson and produced by Farm Aid in cooperation with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. USDA photo by Lance Cheung.