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the list below for details about recent programs.
June 27: Beth Singer, Director of IT Compliance at CHS, was a guest on a recent AgriSafe Network podcast offering advice on Keeping Your Farm Parents Active and Happy.
June 26: South Dakota State University is honoring the work of Edgar McFadden, a South Dakota farm boy who attended the college and later became a notable wheat breeder. I
interviewed a current wheat breeder at SDSU, Sunish Seghal, who talked about McFadden’s legacy.
June 24-25: Another in a series of webinars under the heading Potential for U.S. Agriculture to Be Greenhouse Gas Negative, U.S. Farmers and Ranchers in Action covered the topic
Challenges and Opportunities in Soil Carbon Sequestration. Featured presenters were Elizabeth Ellis (Colorado State Univ.), Alyssa Cho (Bayer Crop Science), and Terry Quam
(Cattlemen’s Beef Board). You can view a recording here.
June 23: Pivot Bio and Taranis are partnering on a project to expand access to federal conservation practices funding for corn growers.
June 20: Kim Lewers, a research geneticist at the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service, talks about the advancement of strawberry production and supply chain improvements over the
last century.
June 19: A recent episode of the Food Talk podcast (from the nonprofit Food Tank) included an interview with Shawna Nelson, the new CEO at Organic Valley.
June 18: Mike Popp, a farm management professor at the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture was interviewed by Farm to Fork about the use of agricultural land for
solar power installations. Popp co-authored a report on the subject.
June 17: Today’s show is compiled from clips and commentary from two reports put out by the USDA’s radio news service featuring David Brown of Iowa State University Extension
discussing stress on the farm--one on techniques to reduce stress, and the other on methods of self-care in the event of stress.
June 16: You can (hopefully) watch an Agri-Pulse video clip of pork notables from the recent World Pork Expo.
June 13: The Arkansas Food Innovation Center at the Market Center of the Ozarks is now open in Springdale, Arkansas. The center is designed to assist and support local farmers and
food entrepreneurs in northwest Arkansas.
June 12: Ag safety and health practitioners in the U.S. are examining a program in France that provides “replacement farmers” to give some respite to French farmers who need it.
Farmers enroll in the program for a modest annual fee. It was discussed in a recent AgriSafe Network webinar. A recording is available here (sign up for a free membership to access it).
