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CAST will host Resilience and Security: Building the Capacity to Thrive in a Changing World, the third session of The Future of American Agriculture, on Wednesday, Oct. 14, from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. CT, featuring Duane Simpson, National Council of Farmer Cooperatives; Jeremy Jack, Silent Shade Planting Company; and Michaela...
SIVB and CAST host a free webinar Oct. 20 on recent advances in genome editing, with Aaron Hummel of Pairwise on the future of plant breeding and Veerle De Schepper of Rainbow Crops on AI-guided multiplex editing....
CAST releases a new paper, PFAS in Agriculture: Science, Uncertainty, and Risk Communication, with a free live webinar Friday, Oct. 16, noon–1 p.m. CT. Authors Thomas Redick, Jon Entine and Mark McDaniel will explain why detecting PFAS is not the same as finding a risk....
IFPRI research fellow emeritus honored for more than four decades of analysis and communication on agricultural markets, trade and food security...
New webinar series will explore the capabilities, innovations, and partnerships needed to help agriculture thrive in an increasingly complex world....
Peer-reviewed analysis finds AI adoption in agriculture is advancing rapidly to the benefit of farmers and consumers — and that research, infrastructure policy must keep pace....
Session convenes cross-sector leaders to advance strategic thinking for American agriculture's future....
Luke Qian and Martin Wiedmann of Cornell University will introduce FAIR4AG², a framework extending FAIR data principles for the era of AI agents, and offer a practical roadmap for agent-ready research....
Join us for a free webinar on how artificial intelligence is transforming U.S. agriculture — and what policymakers need to do about it....
CAST co-hosts the NCFAR Lunch-N-Learn on Capitol Hill — examining the science and policy behind invasive plant management in fire-prone landscapes. Sept. 22, 2026 | 12:00–1:00 p.m. ET | 1300 Longworth....
Award recognizes scientists who effectively communicate agricultural research to non-technical audiences; ceremony to be held Dec. 10 at the Library of Congress....
The full 2026 CAST OJS Analytics Report covers platform-wide engagement metrics, traffic concentration analysis, per-publication performance, decade-by-decade breakdowns, multilingual publication data, and recommendations for content strategy and catalog stewardship....
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