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Rethinking Food Production with an Eye to the Future

12/28/2011 02:15 pm

Tags: KS , Kansas Rural Center , local food , NCR-SARE in the News

The news story below features Dan Nagengast, a speaker at the Kansas Sustainable Agriculture Conference, which was sponsored, in part, by SARE.

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Source: Insurance News

Agriculture is a fast-moving train and no one knows exactly what's up around the bend. For Dan Nagengast, reconnecting food production with food consumption is critical to keeping that train on the track.

Speaking at the Kansas Rural Center's recent Sustainable Agriculture Conference in Emporia, Nagengast laid out compelling concerns about the current industrialized approach to feeding the planet in light of a long list...

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Kansas Rural Center Program Focuses on Opportunities

11/01/2011 01:42 pm

Tags: Kansas , conference , Kansas Rural Center

The story below highlights the Kansas Rural Center's 2011 Sustainable Agriculture Conference. The conference is co-sponsored by the Kansas SARE Professional Development Program.
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Source: Kansas Farmer

The Kansas Rural Center's 2011 Sustainable Agriculture Conference will focus on food and farm opportunities and the optimism for expanding local and regional food and farming in Kansas. The conference, titled "Options, Opportunities and Optimism: Cultivating Our Food and Farm Future," will take place Saturday, Nov. 19, from 9 to 5 p.m. at Flint Hills Technical...

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