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Aug 12, 2024 | belfercenter.org | Margaret Williams |Doug Gavel |Syra S. Madad |Sarah BRown |Sarah Brown

How is the U.S. military strategizing around climate change? Join us for an Energy Policy Seminar featuring Sherri Goodman, senior fellow at the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program and Polar Institute and former Chief Environmental Officer at the Pentagon.

Feb 15, 2024 | agupdate.com | Sarah Brown

BROADVIEW, Mont. – Harvest time at Auer Farms means all systems go. “We switch the combine on and we never stop,” said farmer Mitch Auer. “We’re going by 9 or 9:30 (a.m.), eat lunch on the go, dump grain on the go, eat supper out in the field, keep going and get it out.”Halfway through the winter wheat harvest on July 22, Mitch predicted they’d wrap up in another week. A fast and safe harvest is what he and his family have been preparing for – for weeks.

Feb 15, 2024 | agupdate.com | Sarah Brown

THE NORTHERN CHEYENNE INDIAN RESERVATION – Kaycee Sherrard called her boss to tell her she had a crisis on the home front: a cow in her neighbor’s pasture. With her boyfriend Sterling Small out of commission because of his recent knee surgery, the job fell to Kaycee. Her boss told her to take the time she needed. “In my day job they do help me in terms of having a ranch life on the side,” said Kaycee, 29.

Feb 15, 2024 | agupdate.com | Sarah Brown

BUTTE, Mont. – Anyone who’s been in the Armed Forces knows things rarely happen quickly. With nearly 20 years in the Army, Mystery Harris says she’s pretty sure that hurry-up-and-wait attitude helps with her newest venture: farming. “Nothing happens really fast, especially when you’re dealing with a yak that doesn’t want to come or horses with minds of their own,” Harris said. Harris, 47, was one of two dozen participants in last year’s debut Armed to Farm training program in Montana.

Feb 15, 2024 | agupdate.com | Sarah Brown

MANDAN, N.D. – For the highest yields and fewest weeds, the best method of converting perennials – mainly grasses – to annual crops is no-till, according to research by John Hendrickson, research rangeland management specialist at the Northern Great Plains Research Laboratory. “There are still people who think about using minimum till when converting from perennials to annuals,” Hendrickson said.