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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). June 11: Bish Enterprises in Giltner, Nebraska, is taking orders now for delivery before the fall harvest season of a new type of combine header that picks up two crops beds at a time. Company CEO Andrew Bish says the header doubles the efficiency of combining a crop and pays for itself after 1600-2000 acres of use. June 9-10: U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-VT) was a guest in a recent episode of the Dairy Defined podcast from the National Milk Producers Federation. He talked at length about the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids act and it’s progress toward enactment, about the impact immigration law enforcement is having on dairy farms, and about trade issues. June 6: Soil scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are working to collect and analyze soil samples from across the state in order to compare them with samples that were taken back in the late 1800s and early 1900s. It’s called the Illinois Centennial Soil Archive Project and you can hear more about it here. June 5: All you may ever want to know about dry beans is covered in this presentation from North Dakota State University.

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