Aug 3, 2023Farm Medicine scientist honored for farm household challenges studies
A Farm Medicine scientist has received recognition for her studies on the social and economic challenges faced by farm households.
A Sept. 13 webinar is also scheduled to increase awareness about those difficulties facing farm families.
Florence Becot, Ph.D., an associate research scientist with the National Farm Medicine Center, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, is part of a team that received the Excellence in Scholarship award from the Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society for the team’s integrated research and Extension work.
Becot and colleagues Shoshanah Inwood, Ph.D., of Ohio State University, and Andrea Rissing, Ph.D., of Arizona State University, received the award June 3 during the society’s annual conference at Boston University.
The conference is supported by the Farm Foundation. Co-organizers include the National Farm Medicine Center, Ohio State University, the USDA Economic Research Service and Colorado State University. Selected papers from the conference will be published in a special issue of the journal Agriculture and Human Values.
Photo at top: Andrea Rissing, Arizona State, from left, Florence Becot, National Farm Medicine Center, and Shoshanah Inwood, Ohio State, have been honored for their studies of the challenges facing farm families by the Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society.