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July 2-3: In a webinar hosted by the New York Center for Agricultural Medicine and Health, a panel talked about the Triple Burden on Women in Ag. F2F featured two panelists--Florence Becot of Penn State University and Marylynn Mattison-Collins, a Cornell Extension educator who also raises beef with her husband in New York’s Oneida County. You can view a recording of the webinar here.July 1: The U.S. Meat Export Federation is using “real farmer” testimonials in a beef campaign targeting people in Japan. There’s a transcript here of the expanded story from USMEF.June 29-30: Chad Galer, VP of Product Innovation and Food Safety for Dairy Management, Inc., discussed the terminology around “ultra-processed foods” mainly as it relates to the dairy industry. He appeared courtesy of the Dairy Defined podcast from the National Milk Producers Federation. You can access a recording here.June 26: Extension Specialist Gurpal Toor of the University of Maryland at College Park and others took part in a SciLine media briefing about water quality and water pollution. Toor said farmers need to be part of the conversation about water quality. A video recording and transcript of the briefing is available here.June 25: Companies are getting more selective and practical about their approach to sustainability, according to Meryl Richards of Ceres, a nonprofit working toward a cleaner, more just, and resilient world. Richards was a guest in a recent episode of the Farm+Food+Facts podcast from U.S. Farmers and Ranchers in Action.June 24: Compeer Financial--a member-owned Farm Credit cooperative serving 144 counties in Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota--allocates 1% of its annual net earnings to a fund called Compeer Giving. It supports programs and partners in three areas: inspiring youth, enhancing agriculture and the rural workforce, and empowering rural communities. The fund has allocated more than $39 million since 2018. You can watch a recording of a recent webinar about the program.June 23: The Kansas Health Foundation’s Distinguished Professor of Community Health at Kansas State University, Elaine Johannes, shared information on coping with summer heat from an agricultural perspective in a recent episode of the Sound Living radio program from K-State Extension.June 22: A new report commissioned by U.S. Farmers and Ranchers in Action and authored by S&P Global Energy, Fueling Agriculture: Biofuels as the Catalyst, is an analysis of the future of biofuels. In short, the report projects a substantial economic boost to agriculture in the next couple of decades through biofuels production. You can watch a video recording of the report’s release event in Washington, D.C.June 19: Katie McRobert, executive director of the Australian Farm Institute, was a webinar panelist for Finding Common Ground in a Divided World. The Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute sponsored the event and you can find a recording here. She shared how Australian farmers export a significantly large portion of their production annually.June 18: Even though Wisconsin has only about 1500 acres of sunflowers, University of Wisconsin/Madison did a podcast episode about sunflower production. Guests Sam Bibby--a Wisconsin Extension educator--and Ben Brockmueller--a research technician at UW/Madison--offered observations about the crop.