Food & Farming Conference has ended

Create Your Own Event

Food & Farming Conference

Schedule will be continuously updated: please check back for more workshops!

10:30am CST

Dicamba Conversation: Exploring What's Needed to Support Organic Farmers Frontier RoomWilla Childress • John Fagan • Ryan Schmid Farming Practices to Support Pollinators and Beneficial Insects Royale RoomKarin Jokela Regional Climate Considerations for Seed Production Embassy BKoby Hagen Stress: How to Know If It Is Affecting Me and Easy Techniques to Deal With It Prairie RoomMaggie Peterson

2:00pm CST

Dig into Data: Who Is on Your Side of the Desk Royale RoomCheryl Landsem Growing Food & Environmental Health: Current Projects at Blue Dasher Farm Prairie RoomRyan Schmid Organic Agriculture Research at NDSU Frontier RoomJesse Puka-Beals • Greta Gramig Should Farmers be Paid as Contractors for Regrowing Healthy Topsoil? Embassy BDidi Pershouse

4:00pm CST

Glyphosate Update: Science, Legal Developments and Market Impacts Royale RoomJohn Fagan Growing Cash Flow Frontier RoomGary Matteson Solar Energy on the Farm Embassy BCharlie Ricketts Weed Control in Organic Systems Prairie RoomCharlie Johnson • Mark Askegaard

10:30am CST

Farmland Transition Workshop Embassy BMary Swander Healing Generation RX: Supporting Our Young People Without Psychiatric Drugs Frontier RoomDidi Pershouse Marketing Grassfed Meat Prairie RoomCindy Tolle Seed Sovereignty: Who Owns the Seeds of the World, Bio-Piracy, Genetic Engineering and Indigenous Peoples Royale RoomWinona LaDuke

2:00pm CST

Faith, Farms and Climate: Finding the Values in Farmer-Led Climate Action Frontier RoomMatt Russell Improved Agroecology Using Perennial Grains Prairie RoomBrian Smart Panel: New Models to Support Beginning Farmers Embassy BRon McFall What's Trending with Deep Winter Greenhouses? Royale RoomCarol Ford

4:00pm CST

Creating Trusted “Communities of Practice”: Ongoing Learning Groups that Support Innovation in Farming and Ranching Embassy BDidi Pershouse Hemp Panel: A Growing Industry Royale RoomWinona LaDuke • Mike Ostlie • 1881 Extractions • Legacy Hemp Regenerative Ag: Meeting Challenges Prairie RoomDon Wyse • Fred Kirschenmann • Ryan Schmid