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January 16: Chris Galen recently retired from his position as senior vice president of member services and governance for the National Milk Producers Federation. He spent 28 years with NMPF and says family farms still make up the majority of dairy producers in the U.S. January 15: Researchers at the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture are working on an experimental microneedle painkiller patch for use on pigs and other livestock. January 14: Congressman Josh Riley (D-NY) has announced he is introducing a bill to reauthorize the National ROPS Rebate Program. It would provide financial assistance to farmers who want to install ROPS (rollover protective structures) to help prevent injuries and deaths from tractor rollovers. January 5-9 & 12-13: Jacob Shapiro, a geopolitical analyst, consultant, and speaker from New Orleans gave a talk about agriculture’s changing future at the South Dakota Farmers Union state convention last month. An audio recording of his presentation is available here. January 2: The National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health did a recent webinar on cybersecurity with an emphasis on rural healthcare operations. It focused on the community of Madison, South Dakota, where the Madison Regional Health System and Dakota State University collaborate to prevent cyberattacks. You can view it here. January 1: The University of Maine Cooperative Extension Program has a communication coaching program for farm teams and farm families to be able to communicate better. The Agri-Safe Network hosted a web event about it and a recording is available here. (If you’re not an Agri-Safe member, you can sign up for a paid or free membership here.) December 31: The University of Missouri Center for Regenerative Agriculture’s Virtual Fence Grazing Program manager, Kaitlyn Dozler, shared how virtual fencing works in a recent episode of the Regenerative Reflections podcast. December 30: The Illinois Soybean Checkoff Program sponsored a webinar on the inconsistent performance of glofosinate control of waterhemp. There’s a recording here. December 29: Dr. Sally Flis, Director of Sustainable Ag Programs at Nutrien, talked about the company’s latest sustainability report in a recent episode of the Farm+Food+Facts podcast from U.S. Farmers and Ranchers in Action. December 23-26: The Farm Foundation held an online panel discussion titled Recasting Morrill, Reclaiming Relevance: The Future of Land-Grant Universities, during which panelists Sonny Ramaswamy (former director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture), Nancy Cox (former dean of the University of Kentucky College of Food and Agriculture), and Marshall Stewart (Executive VP for External Engagement and Chief of Staff at Kansas State University) discussed the history and evolution of the land-grant universities, the challenges facing those institutions, and what can be done to make them better. A video recording of the session is posted on the Farm Foundation’s YouTube channel.

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