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October 31: The Financial Times hosted a recent webinar titled The Race for Global Food Security featuring a panel of experts on the subject. The FT offers a recording of the event by
signing up for a free account.
October 30: Operating safely in confined spaces was the advice given by Dan Neenan, director of the National Education Center for Agricultural Safety in a recent webinar sponsored by
the AgriSafe Network. To view a recording, you can sign up for a free membership (or a paid version, if you’re so inclined).
October 29: County Extension Agent Brian Haller in White County, Arkansas, offers tips for using a household air fryer as a way to measure moisture content of forages.
October 27-28: A group called For The Long Term put out statements from Colorado State Treasurer Dave Young, Minnesota State Auditor Julie Blaha, Rocky Mountain Farmers Union
Board President Chad Franke, and Minnesota Farmers Union President Gary Wertish that were critical of the expected impact on agriculture of President Trump’s tariffs.
October 24: I interviewed Andrea Swenson, director of the National Children’s Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety in Marshfield, Wisconsin, about their funding award
for the next year. The Center is one of 11 such organizations around the country that focus on health and safety in agriculture and other professions with higher than average
occupational safety issues. Their funding support comes from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and was in limbo for several months prior to the award.
October 23: Dr. Horacio Lopez-Nicora, a soybean pathologist at The Ohio State University, joined two other experts on the subject of soybean cyst nematodes and how they can be
better managed to minimize yield losses in a recent episode of the Field Advisor podcast from the Illinois Soybean Association.
October 21-22: Two dairy industry leaders--Darragh Maccabee, CEO of Idaho Milk Products and chairman of the International Dairy Foods Association, and Randy Mooney, chairman of
Dairy Farmers of America--shared their positive outlook for the dairy business in a recent episode of the Dairy Defined podcast from the National Milk Producers Federation.
October 20: Jackie McClaskey, CEO and president of The American Royal Association, talks about the need to address biosecurity in American agriculture. You can here more from her on
Kansas State University’s Agriculture Today radio program.
October 17: A crop pest called melonworm is a persistent issue for growers of cucurbit plants (pumpkins, squash, watermelons, etc.) in the southern U.S. this time of year. The
melonworms can be controlled with pesticides. Farmers who fail to find and treat infestations can lose up to 80% of their crops. That’s a lot of jack-o-lanterns unavailable for Halloween.
October 16: The U.S. Meat Export Federation provides a story about a Korean pizza chain’s decision to offer a menu selection that uses U.S. pork sausage (processed by Johnsonville).
After only a few weeks, the pork sausage pizza was the sixth most popular of the 20 pizza options on the chain’s menu.
