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If you’d like more information about the subjects covered in the show, check the list below for details about recent
programs.
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.
June 12: Back in 2000, Congress passed the Africa Growth and Opportunities Act to incentivize two-way trade between the U.S. and sub-Saharan African countries. But the U.S. Meat
Export Federation put out a statement suggesting that the trade situation is far from reciprocal. You can read what USMEF’s Jim Remcheck had to say here.
June 11: The Purdue University Ag Economy Barometer--a survey of 400 farmers monthly across the U.S.--saw a further drop in farmer sentiment for the economy in May. Michael
Langemeier, head of Purdue’s Center for Commercial Agriculture, says inflation is really lowering farmer expectations. You can watch a short video summary here.
June 9-10: I interviewed Gregg Dowd, CEO of the National Milk Producers Federation, about his position on the use of artificial intelligence in the dairy industry. Dowd put out a column
on the subject a few days ago. In short, he sees potential for AI to have a positive impact across the dairy industry, from farm to consumer.
June 8: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Office of Partnerships and Public Engagement is holding a webinar on Thursday, June 11, at 2:00pm Eastern and its open to anyone looking
to take advantage of the services offered by the OPPE. Director Steve Messeh did a 4-minute video to promote the event. You can register here for the free event.
June 5: The Canadian province of Ontario set aside two million acres in 2005 to protect the land from development. Margaret Zafiriou, a senior research fellow at the Canadian Agri-Food
Policy Institute, shared details in a short video about this Green Belt.
