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Session 3 Preview: Resilience and Security With Duane Simpson, Jeremy Jack and Michaela McGinn
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...
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SIVB-CAST Webinar: Gene Editing in In Vitro and In Vivo Systems: Tools, Delivery, and Applications
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....
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CAST Webinar: PFAS in Agriculture: Science, Uncertainty, and Risk Communication
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....
Webinar “Research and Innovation: Accelerating the Path from Discovery to Impact”
Watch the recording of Research and Innovation: Accelerating the Path from Discovery to Impact, the second session of CAST’s public leadership dialogue series The Future of American Agriculture, featuring Elizabeth Stulberg, ClearPath; Karen Ellis Carr, ArentFox Schiff; and Ronnie Green, University of Nebraska-Lincoln....
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CAST Names Former USDA Chief Economist Joseph Glauber 2026 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient
IFPRI research fellow emeritus honored for more than four decades of analysis and communication on agricultural markets, trade and food security...
Webinar “Investment and Competitiveness: Aligning Capital with Agricultural Priorities”
Watch the recording of Investment and Competitiveness: Aligning Capital with Agricultural Priorities, the first session of CAST's public leadership dialogue series The Future of American Agriculture, featuring Paola de Almeida, Natural Systems Capital, Inc., and host Chris Boomsma....
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CAST Launches Public Leadership Dialogue Series on the Future of American Agriculture
New webinar series will explore the capabilities, innovations, and partnerships needed to help agriculture thrive in an increasingly complex world....
Webinar “Can AI Agents Use Our Agricultural Research? A FAIR4AG² Roadmap for Agent-Ready Science”
Researchers hear it from industry all the time: "We love your papers, but when we need to make a decision, we just can't figure out how to use these models quickly enough." This webinar is about closing that gap....
Webinar “AI in Agriculture: Transforming the Food System from Data to Decisions to Action”
A detailed look at how AI is already being deployed across U.S. agriculture — from precision spray systems reducing herbicide use by half, to acoustic sensors detecting disease before symptoms appear — and the policy choices that will determine who benefits from these technologies....
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New CAST Policy Brief Underscores Promise and Policy Stakes of AI in U.S. Food and Agriculture
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....
When a New Pest Arrives: Lessons from Cotton Jassid in the Southeast

By Scott Graham (Auburn University), Phillip Roberts (University of Georgia), and Isaac Esquivel (University of Florida) In the fall of 2024, few, if any, cotton producers in the United States had heard of cotton jassid. By the end of the 2025 growing season, the insect had become a major topic...

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CAST Continues National Listening Tour with University of Arkansas Session
Session convenes cross-sector leaders to advance strategic thinking for American agriculture's future....
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