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January 21: Land O’Lakes, the ag cooperative based in Arden Hills, Minnesota, began celebrating its 100th anniversary last year.
January 18-20: My daughter, Katie, lives in New York City. Because of her health, she has a special diet which makes grocery shopping actually faster and less complicated. On the other
hand, “grabbing a bite with friends” is sometimes a chore--or an exercise in creativity.
January 17: Green burials--including composting--are a specialty of Elizabeth Fournier, owner and operator of Cornerstone Funeral Services in Boring, Oregon. She’s also the author of
The Green Burial Guidebook.
January 14: Dr. Rebecca Nelson of Cornell University has been working on the concept of using human waste as fertilizer for crops. She talks about the “Circular Bionutrient Economy” in
an episode of the Field, Lab, Earth podcast, a joint production of the American Society of Agronomy, the Crop Science Society of America, and the Soil Science Society of America.
January 12-13: The rural broadband advocacy group Connected Nation held a recent virtual town hall on the Digital Divide--the gap between rural and urban broadband service. One of
the panelists was Chris Ali of the University of Virginia. He’s written a book on the subject, Farm Fresh Broadband: The Politics of Rural Connectivity.
January 11: The National AgrAbility Project put on a recent webinar titled Strategies for Preventing Farm/Ranch Suicides and for Assisting Those Left Behind. If you have a need to speak
to someone, the National Suicide Prevention Hotline is open 24/7 at 1-800-273-8255.
January 10: A December virtual panel discussion offered by the nonprofit Food Tank organization focused on a new effort in Congress to shore up some liability provisions of the
Emerson Act from 1996.
January 6-7: The Danforth Plant Science Center puts on AgTechNEXT webinars on a regular basis, most recently an enstallment titled The Consequences of Coming Up Short on Climate.
January 5: The USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service is conducting a survey of “new” farmers in preparation for the next Census of Agriculture in 2022. Anyone who has started
farming since the last ag census (2017) is supposed to complete the survey. Details are available from USDA/NASS.
January 4: Farmers for Free Trade hosted a recent roundtable discussion on American ag export competitiveness.
January 3: A recent Farm Foundation Forum presented an economic outlook for agriculture in 2022.
December 31: Meet Trish Thomas, co-founder and CEO of Every Body Eat, the $1 million top prize winner in the 2021 Grow-NY competition.
