The Germinator Magazine Winter 2025
The Germinator – Winter 2025 Edition
an NPSAS Publication
Included in this issue of the Germinator you’ll find
- Featured articles and information about the educational opportunities available in farming
- 2025 Food & Farming Conference Info
- Innovation: Value of Drones
- Learning from Wwoofing
- Ag Education in Higher Ed
- Inspectors Learn from the Farmers they Inspect
- Member Feature: Miller Feed & Cattle
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Taste of Ag 2025
Taste of Ag 2025
INVITING VENDORS & ATTENDEES: Join us the evening of January 24, 2025 in Aberdeen, SD at the Ramkota Inn Convention Center for the 2025 Taste of Ag. This is an evening of fun, networking, storytelling, and delicious bites, sips, and tastes of local and sustainably and/or organically grown food and drink. The evening also includes live music and a fun auction.
If you’re attending the NPSAS Food and Farming Conference attendance is included in your conference registration. If you’d like to just attend this event, you can buy tickets through the conference registration here.
If you are an interested vendor, booth space is free; in return, you provide samples of your food and share your story with attendees of the 46th annual Food and Farming Sustainable Ag Conference. You are also invited to sell your goods at the Taste of Ag event. More vendor information can be found below. If you’re interested in signing up as a Taste of Ag vendor, you can do so here or click the link below.
Join Us for the 2025 Taste of Ag
The Germinator Magazine Fall 2024
The Germinator – Fall 2024 Edition
Included in this issue of the Germinator you’ll find
- Featured articles and information about the financial side of farming
- Recap of 2024 Field Day Events
- State of NPSAS
- Value-added ideas for your farm or ranch
- Unique organic and regenerative agriculture funding source in Mad Capital
- Health Insurance in Agriculture
- Announcing 2025 Conference Speakers
- Innovation in Ag: Controlling weeds with laser
- Member Feature: The Venner Farm
- Pitchfork and Hoe
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2025 Speakers for NPSAS Food and Farming Sustainable Ag Conference Announced
Introducing our Keynote Speakers for the 2025 Food and Farming Sustainable Ag Conference.
JOLENE BROWN, CSP, CPAE is a farmer, author, and curator of peace working with family farms to create a working plan for generations to work together for an operation that can be passed on for generations. A walking/talking champion for the people of agriculture, she shares her credibility, authenticity, humor, and wisdom with audiences worldwide through her writing, keynotes, and workshops.
With stages ranging from bales of hay to some of the world’s most beautiful venues, Jolene has the unique ability to weave appropriate humor, real-life stories, and hard-won experience into her work.
RAY ARCHULETA is a Certified Professional Soil Scientist with the Soil Science Society of America and has over 30 years’ experience as a Soil Conservationist, Water Quality Specialist, and Conservation Agronomist with the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS).
After his retirement from the NRCS in 2017, Ray founded Understanding Ag, LLC, and Soil Health Academy, LLC, to teach Biomimicry strategies and Agroecology principles for improving soil function on a national scale. Ray also owns and operates a 150-acre farm near Seymour, Missouri that he operates along with his wife and family.
BOB QUINN earned a PhD in plant biochemistry before returning to the family farm in the rich soil of Big Sandy, Montana. Bob embarked on a transformative journey that led him to pioneer Kamut International, a thriving business that turned an ancient grain into a global superfood synonymous with health and community.
Quinn is also the found of The Quinn Institute championing the idea that every grain and every harvest should enhance health. The Quinn Institute as a leader in transforming agriculture into a health-giving enterprise.
WE LOOK FORWARD
TO HEARING
FROM THESE
AMAZING SPEAKERS!
The Germinator Magazine Summer 2024
The Germinator – Summer 2024 Edition
Included in this issue of the Germinator you’ll find
- Articles and information about regenerative ag
- 2024 Field Day Events
- Get your transition to organic production training in North Dakota and South Dakota at the Organic Academy Road Show
- New Support for South Dakota organic farmers
- Grants awarded for developing organic markets
- Prairiesun Organics Chosen as Learning Center
- Innovation: Backbreaker to Breakthrough in Rock Picking
- Pitchfork and Hoe
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