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SDSU Extension to Host Ag Cybersecurity Workshop

South Dakota State University Extension will host an agriculture cybersecurity workshop and public seminar to highlight results from three collaborative research projects between SDSU and Dakota State University.

Learn how data is secured as it is transferred from monitoring instruments to the cloud and how artificial intelligence is used to detect crop anomalies for precision management. Faculty, graduate students and undergraduate students interested in learning more about agriculture cybersecurity related to precision agriculture are especially encouraged to attend.

The workshop is from noon to 5 p.m. on Nov. 12, 2025, at McCrory Gardens in Brookings, with a mixer and networking dinner from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Registration is required, and tickets are $50 per person. To register, visit the SDSU Extension Events page and search “cybersecurity”.

Source : sdstate.edu

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Alberta Honey: A Day at Molenkamp Honey Farms

Video: Alberta Honey: A Day at Molenkamp Honey Farms

When was the last time you read the label on your honey?

We spent a day at Molenkamp Honey Farms with Michael Molenkamp, who has been keeping bees for 17 seasons and runs three to four thousand hives. In mid-September, he was finishing treatments and getting his bees ready for winter, and he walked us through how Alberta honey gets made.

Alberta has just 150 commercial beekeepers running 300,000 colonies, and together they produce 40% of Canada’s honey. Long summer days and golden canola fields give Alberta honey a light flavour that’s hard to match anywhere else.

Molenkamp calls Alberta beekeepers some of the most resilient farmers he knows. There’s plenty of Alberta honey to go around, but a lot on our shelves isn’t from here, so his ask is simple. Give the label a second look and choose honey made by Alberta beekeepers, or buy straight from a beekeeper near you.