The Upstate Institute at Colgate University will co-host a series with the Cornell Cooperative Extension called MAD Ideas.

The third spring event is Helping Rural Farmers in the 21st Century featuring Chris Scalzo. Dr. Scalzo has over 16 years of professional experience in finance, accounting, credit, banking, and management.

He has traveled to:

• Honduras to help dairy farmers with financial analysis and a cooperative with data collection for the dairy industry
• Kenya to help with strategy and upgrading an accounting system from QuickBooks to SAGE Rainbow
• Lebanon to help organic food producers with strategy and financial analysis knowledge

Most recently, he has traveled back to Kenya to work on value chain analysis and has completed two remote assignment in data analytics and value chain analysis.

MAD Ideas brings top thinkers to Madison County from universities and colleges around Central New York to share their “Mad Ideas” and research topics. The lecture series spans a wide variety of topics, including agriculture, youth development, health & ecological sustainability.

Register here.