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<div style="margin: 0px; background-color: white"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: lato-regular; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: white">The USDA is collecting public input on the biggest challenges and opportunities facing food and agriculture
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14pt; line-height: normal">A Listening Session to Help Shape Future Innovation in U.S. Agriculture</span></h1>
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<div style="margin: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box"><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-align: left; background-color: white"><b>When:<span style="margin: 0px"> </span></b></span><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-align: left; background-color: white">Tue,
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<div style="margin: 0px; color: black"><span style="margin: 0px"><b>Register here</b></span><span style="margin: 0px">: </span><a href="https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/6640983569168787472" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px">https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/6640983569168787472</span></a><br>
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<div style="margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box"><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: lato-regular, HelveticaNeueW01-55Roma, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: white">Please join us for a virtual listening to help shape agricultural
research priorities for the next three decades. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss the biggest challenges and opportunities for optimizing agricultural productivity and resilience, strengthening economic viability, and decreasing the environmental
impact of our nation’s farms and ranches. This listening session is co-hosted by the National Center for Appropriate Technology and Organic Seed Alliance in partnership with the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition. Your input will be shared with the
USDA to directly influence the department’s Agricultural Innovation Agenda, including objectives for public- and private-sector research and development. We will also help participants submit their own comments directly to USDA.</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-family: lato-regular, HelveticaNeueW01-55Roma, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> </span>
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