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CSU Extension’s Brent Young receives educator award

Brent Young, CSU Extension educator and frequent partner with AgrAbility, was honored by the Annie's Project as the recipient of the Annie's Project Women in Ag Educator Award. Brent was instrumental in the initiation and exponential growth of Annie's Project courses in Colorado.

Through his ability to develop a strong team and inspire action, nearly 300 Colorado farm and ranch women have benefited from his team's effort in a little over two years.

Colorado State University / Source (Submitted by Jim Craig, CO AgrAbility)

T-L Irrigation selected for national showcase at White House

The Nebraska AgrAbility crew was very excited to hear that a Nebraska-based business was asked to be at the White House this month! Congratulations to T&L Irrigation of Nebraska for being chosen for the National Showcase on the White House lawn.

NTV-ABC (Submitted by Susan Harris-Broomfield, NE AgrAbility)

A Four-Legged Farmhand

"Alda Owen was 60 years old when she owned her first puppy, a Border Collie she named Sweet Baby Jo...But Sweet Baby Jo isn’t just any farm dog and Owen isn’t just any farmer."
American Farm Bureau Federation News NOTE FROM PHARM DOG'S JACKIE ALLENBRAND: We are having a fundraiser on September 7th at the MU Hundley- Whaley Research Center in Albany, MO. Nationally known speaker Andrew McCrea, with the American Countryside radio show, will be our speaker that evening. www.pharmdog.org

Fighting opioid addiction in rural communities

"Rural communities have the highest death rates nationwide from opioid prescriptions"
Morning Ag Clips

Find farm loans that fit your operation

"USDA has launched the Farm Loan Discovery Tool as the newest feature on farmers.gov"
Morning Ag Clips

First US National Park to Offer Heavy-Duty Wheelchairs for Disabled Visitors to Enjoy the Scenery

"This national park in Michigan has just become the first to implement heavy-duty wheelchairs as a means of allowing disabled visitors to enjoy their trails."
Good News Network

Improved Prosthetic Hand Has A Lighter Touch And Easy Grip

"Keven Walgamott, a real estate agent who lost his left hand and part of his arm in an electrical accident in 2002...got emotional a second time when he was able to grasp his wife's hand and "feel" her touch, this time through a newly designed, experimental prosthetic hand that can be directed with the user's mind."
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USDA opens signup for Market Facilitation Program

"Signup is open for the Market Facilitation Program (MFP), a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) program to assist farmers who continue to suffer from damages because of unjustified trade retaliation from foreign nations."
Morning Ag Clips

Penn State Extension online course aims to educate

"The “Farmers Market Food Safety” course teaches new and established farmers market vendors the basics of food safety and sanitation."
Morning Ag Clips

Woman Who Can’t Walk Teams Up with Blind Man for Hiking Adventures: 'He's the Legs, I'm the Eyes'

"Knecht was born with Spina bifida and uses a wheelchair to get around, and Hahn lost his eyesight due to glaucoma five years ago,"
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