Thank you to all who participated in this event, led sessions, hosted field trips, facilitated sessions, provided scholarship funds, donated door prizes, displayed posters, and exhibited in the trade show. Thank you, also, to those who coordinated these activities!

Our keynote was by Dr. Laura Lengnick, Climate Change, Resilience and the Future of Food. As a farmer, you have to be so nimble these days. Consider these “Below the Headlines” climate impacts: More variable temperatures and rainfall, warmer winters, hot summer nights, more pests and disease pressures, and interference in crop fertilization. Lengnick’s keynote address offered resilient thinking ideas to move us and the U.S. food system forward.

Poster authors had the chance to win a cash award for best poster presentation. (See poster abstracts.) And there was a People’s Choice award for the first time this year..