September 4: Nick Horob of Acre Almanac in Fargo, North Dakota, implements artificial intelligence into his work, particularly with respect to guiding and improving agronomic performance on farms. He was part of a session on AI, Data and Precision Agronomy at the recent ASA/CSSA/SSSA 2026 Sustainable Agronomy Conference. September 3: At the recent SXSW 2026 conference, Katie Collins talked about how she and her husband restored 600 acres of land near Fredericksburg, Texas. Using regenerative practices, Collins and her husband boosted the organic matter and water infiltration capacity of the soils. September 2: The Center for Food as Medicine, Longevity, and Healthspan host a recent online discussion with Dr. Marion Nestle on Food and Living Your Best Life. You can view a recording here. September 1: The USDA’s Feral Swine Eradication Pilot Program is accepting applications through September 21 for direct assistance funding opportunities. August 31: The U.S. Department of Agriculture has extended the application deadline to September 30 for the Supplemental Disaster Relief Program. August 28: The AgriSafe Network talked with Georgia farmer Connie Baptiste as part of a series of interviews with women farmers under the theme “Celebrating Wellness and Women in Ag,” as it happens to be the International Year of the Women Farmer. You can learn more about Baptiste here. August 27: Oren Lesmeister is a farmer and a former South Dakota state legislator. His family has participated in South Dakota Farm Bureau activities for generations and the SDFU podcast, Our Way of Life, had a recent episode interviewing him. August 26: Laurie Isley, a Michigan corn and soybean farmer, participated in a panel discussion titled How Sustainable Production and Economic Vitality Can Coexist. It was put on by Agri-Pulse and the United Soybean Board. You can view a recording here. August 25: I interviewed Melissa Ploeckelman Brown, an outreach specialist with the National Farm Medicine Center in Marshfield, Wisconsin, about being chosen as president-elect of the International Society for Agricultural Safety and Health. You can read more here. August 24: A recent installment of Purdue University’s Commercial AgCast features an interview with Andy Campbell, co-founder and director of insights for TractorZoom in West Des Moines, Iowa. TractorZoom is an online marketplace for farm machinery, heavy trucks, and construction equipment, mostly. The interview audio is available here. August 21: Zia Lyle is a post-doc researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who studies how drinking water systems are impacted by climate change. She maintains that rural water systems are more susceptible than urban systems to damage from natural hazards like floods, high winds, and tornados. There’s an interview with her about that here.