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programs.
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.
June 17: Minnesota’s Agricultural Utilization and Research Institute (AURI) hosted a pair of webinars on Expanding Alfalfa’s Potential for Feed and Fertilizer. You can access a recording of
Part 1 here, and Part 2 is here.
June 16: Water scarcity and drought issues were covered in a media briefing by SciLine, particularly with respect to the western United States. Dr. Elizabeth Koebele of the University of
Nevada at Reno was featured as part of a panel of experts talking about drought and water resource management.
June 15: K-State and Washburn University Law Professor Roger McEowen issued a warning about a scam involving attempts to sell remote properties to unsuspecting buyers by
individuals who are not the property owners. You can listen to an extended version of the story here.
