"The Long Run" Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton would appreciate today's biotech. Scientific entrepreneurs of the 21st century must be ready for what Shackleton called the “hazardous journey, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful, honor and recognition in case of success.” Today, the men and women who strive to apply science for the betterment of human health have a historic opportunity. They need stamina and resilience to achieve something ...
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Timmerman Report Podcasts
Join Lisa Desmarais and Amy Timmerman as they answer your questions about the appraisal profession. Submit your own questions to [email protected].
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Is it best that our food is Local and Organic or Big and Conventional? Our view is “Both, and..” We don’t come to the table with a bias, except that good farming like good food comes in all shapes and sizes. Farm to Table Talk explores issues and the growing interest in the story of how and where the food on our tables is produced, processed and marketed. The host, Rodger Wasson is a food and agriculture veteran. Although he was the first of his family to leave the grain and livestock farm a ...
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Sacramento Farm To School at Terra Madre – Kelsey Nederveld, Alice Waters
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32:27Sacramento School District’s Central Kitchen is revolutionizing the way to feed over 40,000 students with scratch made, nutritious, local foods. Kelsey Nederveld, is the Director of Nutrition Services at Sacramento City Unified School District, was instrumental in building and designing the district’s own Central Kitchen, a food processing facility…
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Ep185: Dr. Lachelle Weeks on Predicting Leukemia Risk At Scale
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1:05:47Dr. Lachelle Weeks is a physician-scientist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute working on a project to predict leukemia risk based on widely available blood samples.By Timmerman Report
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Episode 201: What is a Professional Standard?
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5:24Lisa and Amy continue their new USPAP Talk series by discussing what constitutes a professional standard.By The Appraisal Foundation
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MAHA Make America Healthy Again Report – Professor Jerold Mande
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37:27The MAHA Commission Report to President Trump, outlines the administration’s strategy to “Make Our Children Healthy Again”. Professor Jerold Mande, CEO of Nourish Science and Rodger Wasson, host of Farm To Table Talk podcast, review the report and discuss what it is in it and what is missing. www.nourishscience.org…
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Lisa and Amy are back with a brand new special series on Appraiser Talk: USPAP Talk! Tune in to hear why they wanted to launch this new special series of episodes.By The Appraisal Foundation
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Farm to Table Talk is about good conversations and no one was better at facilitating conversation than Bill Moyers who has passed away at the age of 91. A journalist, minister, Peace Corps and Great Society leader, Bill Moyers also showed his interest and support of farmers, such as his thoughtful interview with the legendary Wendell Berry. He told…
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Ep184: Jen Adair on Affordable, Accessible Gene & Cell Therapies
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1:50:23Jen Adair, professor and associate director of the Horae Gene Therapy Center at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, on creating more affordable and accessible cell and gene therapies.By Timmerman Report
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When vegan chef Mollie Englehart finally became a farmer, she had the big idea to create a farm where nothing had to die. Animals would live out their days munching grass, with no blood on her hands–straight out of her vegan chef playbook. Mollie built her successful LA Vegan restaurants on that ethical stance: compassionate food, no suffering, all…
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Summer Throwback: What is highest and best use and why does it matter?
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5:05Lisa and Amy round out their summer throwback series by revisiting an episode on highest and best use. Tune in on September 8th when Appraiser Talk returns with an exciting new series!By The Appraisal Foundation
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Summer Throwback: Are there "typical" adjustments that are considered standard in the profession?
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4:52Lisa and Amy talk about adjustments on this week's summer throwback.By The Appraisal Foundation
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More People, Worse Climate, Less Food – Richard Sexton
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1:07:24Climate change, population growth, demand for animal products, pest resistance to traditional treatments and misguided policies lead to food shortages and escalating food prices. In 2023, 733 million people faced hunger and 2.3 billion were moderately or severely food insecure. Policies to support biofuels, organic agriculture, local foods, and sma…
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Summer Throwback: What's the difference between an appraisal and the authentication of fine art?
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5:07Lisa and Amy are revisiting one of their personal property specific episodes in today's Summer Throwback.By The Appraisal Foundation
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Anna Jones is a farmer based in the Welsh uplands who brings a thoughtful and practical perspective on sustainable livestock farming. Although she came into agriculture later in life, Anna grew up on her family’s sheep and beef farm and returned in her mid-20s to help keep it in the family. She now works alongside her father and is gradually introd…
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Ep183: Sabah Oney on CAR-T Cells Against Solid Tumors
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56:23Sabah Oney, CEO of Philadelphia and San Francisco-based Dispatch Biotherapeutics, on engineering CAR-T cells that can kill solid tumors.By Timmerman Report
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Summer Throwback: Can a borrower be an intended user of an appraisal report?
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5:29Building off last week's throwback, Lisa and Amy are sharing another past episode focusing on intended users.By The Appraisal Foundation
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Wolves, Water and Wildfires – Grace Woodmansee
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38:47Natural resources, rural communities and agriculture come together in Siskiyou County where California borders Oregon. Wolves have been reintroduced, wildfires are a continuous concern, dams have been removed and efficient water sharing requires community engagement. Assisting with these needs is Grace Woodmansee University of California Cooperativ…
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Lisa and Amy continue their Summer Throwback series with an episode about intended users from the archives.By The Appraisal Foundation
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Farmers around the world are resisting industrial monoculture in favor of biodiversity and soil-first practices with practical land stewardship rooted in indigenous knowledge, community building and long-term economic resilience. Regenerating Earth: Farmers Working with Nature to Feed Our Future by Kelsey Timmerman (Patagonia Books) provides a glob…
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Ep182: Andy Rachleff & Yung Lie on Creative Ways to Back Science
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1:01:18Andy Rachleff and Yung Lie, board chair and CEO of Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, on creative ways to support science amid budget cuts.By Timmerman Report
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Summer Throwback: Why isn't the federal government in charge of writing these standards?
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5:50Lisa and Amy are sharing their favorite episodes of the podcast this summer. Next up, a closer look at the appraiser regulatory system.By The Appraisal Foundation
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It is 100% true that small farms can be profitable however small farms increasingly need to do further processing. Just selling vegetables to a Farmers Market may no longer be a sufficient business model. Just a single farmer by themselves faces a very hard farm life. To be the best that it can be a single farmer will be better with a group or a co…
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Small farms can be profitable farms, especially if they adapt and grow to include adding value to their production. Michael Kilpatrick is a farmer and educator who is passionate about equipping farmers with the tools and systems they need to thrive! He offers educational resources as host of the Thriving Farmer podcast and through his virtual summi…
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Summer Throwback: What is an appraiser valuing when they do an appraisal on my home?
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8:25Lisa and Amy continue their summer throwback series with a deep dive on this consumer question.By The Appraisal Foundation
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Although it is appealing to go solo, succeeding in the food system today requires working in cooperation with others: family, neighbors, associations, boards, committees, suppliers, or customers. Working out a partnership or agreeing to serve on a board or committee, may not be what you signed up for but good luck trying to go it alone. Blake Hurst…
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Summer Throwback: When do I need to get an appraisal?
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3:40Lisa and Amy continue their Summer Throwback series to another early episode of the show answering a commonly asked consumer question.By The Appraisal Foundation
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Feeding 1.4 Billion – Dr. Sat Kumar Tomer
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36:58With a growing population of 1.4 billion people to feed, farmers in India are under constant pressure to increase productivity despite diminishing resources. Nearly half the population and most rural livelihoods rely on agriculture.. With volatile weather patterns and pest infestations, crop diseases and limited natural resources , Dr. Sat Kumar To…
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Ep181: Claire Mazumdar on a Two-Pronged Attack Against Cancer
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57:18Claire Mazumdar, CEO of Boston-based Bicara Therapeutics, on developing a bifunctional antibody for head and neck cancer.By Timmerman Report
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Appraiser Talk is on summer break, but while Lisa and Amy dream up new episodes, they're sharing some of their old favorite, starting with the very first episode of Appraiser Talk!By The Appraisal Foundation
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DC Central Kitchen combats hunger and poverty through job training and job creation in Washington DC, providing hands-on culinary training for individuals facing high barriers to employment while creating living wage jobs and bringing nutritious, dignified food where it is most needed. Social ventures include serving scratch-cooked farm-to-school m…
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Episode 199: "Do I also comply with USPAP automatically because I comply with standards set forth by the AICPA?"
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6:10Lisa and Amy discuss USPAP and AICPA standards.By The Appraisal Foundation
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Ariane Daguin is the founder of D’Artagnan and the visionary behind the new All For One One For All (AOOA) Farm in New York’s Hudson Valley.Known as the “Mother of Farm-to-Table” in America, Ariane has spent decades shaping how we source, prepare, and think about our food. She introduced organic, humanely raised meat to top chefs across the U.S. an…
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Episode 198: "Is a vacant 60-acre land parcel a residential or non-residential property?"
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8:23Lisa and Amy dive into an interesting question about appraising vacant land.By The Appraisal Foundation
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Fresh Eyes to Fix Farms – John Kempf
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1:00:37What happens when an Amish farmer in the world's 4th largest Amish community, farming with horses, recognizes that overdosing with chemical "solutions "is killing the soil? When that Amish farmer is John Kempf it leads to fresh eyes for actions that can bring soil back to life. In Europe for hundreds of years Amish farmers were known for resuscitat…
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Ep180: John Rinn on Discovering Drugs Based on Long Non-Coding RNA
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1:10:45John Rinn, professor at the University of Colorado and co-founder of Lincswitch Therapeutics, on exploring long non-coding RNA.By Timmerman Report
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Episode 197: "How do appraisers comply with USPAP’s confidentiality rule?"
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7:06Lisa and Amy answer this question from an appraiser: If an appraiser completed an appraisal for one client, and then a new client asks for a 1004D update on that same property, how should the appraiser handle this while complying with USPAP’s confidentiality rule? Listen in to find out more!By The Appraisal Foundation
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There is Organic and there is beyond Organic to regenerative organic, including soil health, animal welfare and social. California Certified Organic Farmers, CCOF, advances organic agriculture for a healthy world: advocating for organic policies, supporting the growth of organic through educationand grants and providing organic certification. A non…
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Episode 196: "Are only the appraisers signing the appraisal required to state whether they inspected the property?"
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6:34Lisa and Amy dive into a question about property inspection and report signatures.By The Appraisal Foundation
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Food System Fights – Stuart Gillespie
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1:00:00Food is life but our food system isn't helping. Designed in a different century for a different purpose—to mass-produce cheap calories to prevent famine—it’s now generating obesity, ill health, and premature death. We need to transform it into one that can nourish all eight billion of us and the planet we live on. That is the story learned in Food …
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Ep179: Ethan Weiss & Josh Lehrer on a New Idea for Cardiovascular Disease & Diabetes
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1:03:25Marea Therapeutics CEO Josh Lehrer and CSO Ethan Weiss on a new angle of attack against cardiovascular disease and diabetes.By Timmerman Report
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MAHA’s Report – Callie Eideberg & Rodger Wasson
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54:32The long-anticipated MAHA Report : “Making our children healthy again” is published. In the preamble it claims “to be a call to action, presenting the stark reality of American Children’s declining health, backed by compelling data and long-term trends.” It unpacks the potential dietary, behavioral, medical and environmental drivers behind the cris…
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Episode 195: "Who controls the assignment conditions?"
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6:28Lisa and Amy do a deep dive on assignment conditions.By The Appraisal Foundation
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Listen For Voice Of Agriculture – Rodger Wasson
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33:02Agriculture, from farms to tables, have voices to be heard. Farm To Table Talk host Rodger Wasson brings his own voice to the table with farmers, chefs, policy makers, innovators and dreamers with conversations that offer ideas and inspiration to the food system . The table turns in this conversation as Rodger is a guest on Capri Cafaro's Eat Your …
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Ep178: Peyton Greenside on ML-Guided Biologics Discovery
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1:02:56Peyton Greenside, co-founder and CEO of BigHat Biosciences, on machine-learning guided biologic drug discovery.By Timmerman Report
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Amy and Lisa do a deep dive on The Appraisal Foundation's Course Approval Program.By The Appraisal Foundation
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Farmers Should Earn More/Work Less – Ari Memar
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55:57Farmers work too hard for what they earn. They need to earn more and work less for their way of life that should be profitable. Small farms are critical to local communities and food systems, but are especially outmatched by the resources available to larger farms — technology, equipment, sales and marketing teams, and back office staff. So in part…
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Episode 193: "How does USPAP define a special purpose property?"
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6:14Lisa fills Amy in on special purpose properties.By The Appraisal Foundation
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The food system is extremely inefficient with 237 million tons going unsold or uneaten.--becomingfood waste, which goes t to landfill, incineration, or down the drain, or simply left in the fields to rot. That’s almost 120 billion meals’ worth of food that goes unsold or uneaten each year, roughly 1.4% of U.S. GDP. The impacts on climate and enviro…
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Episode 192: "Is the appraiser required to sign the appraiser's independence certification?"
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6:44Lisa and Amy clear up confusion around what an appraiser certifies when they sign a report.By The Appraisal Foundation
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Good Farming Good Health – Camilla Petersen
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58:27To be a good Doctor and to do good health you really need to understand farming and agriculture, because good farming also equals good health and overall wellness, once said Wendell Berry. Dr. Camilla Petersen owns her own concierge medical practice in Missoula Montana where creating good health starts with what we are putting into our bodies. Cami…
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Episode 191: "Why cant I use that appraisal report however I want?"
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8:29Lisa and Amy talk about appraisal reports and answer one of the most frequently asked questions appraisers get.By The Appraisal Foundation
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