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Holiday Food and Activity What are your favorite holiday foods? How do your food traditions change over time? This holiday conversation provides a view into food, people, and their holidays.

FoodThanks The Thanksgiving holiday season offers many opportunities to reflect and share. What are your favorite foods? How do you share your thanks with those you work with? What is your favorite turkey moment? This conversation offers suggestions and thoughts this Thanksgiving holiday.

Thanksgiving Are you a turkey or ham family? Prefer Stove Top over your uncle's homemade stuffing? Learn more about how Thanksgiving traditions and activity shape the lives of farmers and ranchers.

Farm Tech What is your favorite technology you use on your farm and why? Do you use technology to elevate your natural ag strengths and/or push you to improve your weaker ag skills? This AgChat conversation on farm technology tackles these and other questions.

Do You Have Food Concerns? Food and agriculture are linked. This FoodChat conversation brings foodies and farmers together to learn more about the other's point of view with respect to food.

AgChat Open Topics How can you turn a negative ag news story into a positive conversation with others? Is portable, electric, tether, or hardwire best for grazing? For which situation/acreage is which most natural? These and other open topics wer part of this Agchat convo.

Farm Disaster Prep In the wake of recent earthquakes, high heat, drought, and Hurricane Irene, this convo focused on being prepared on the farm for disasters and bio-security issues. What resources do you rely on to develop disaster plans? Have any livestock farmers been in a mandatory evacuation situation? What do you do? This convo has resource links and thoughts from several who have had to live the plan.

What is AgVocacy? How can people broaden agvocacy beyond the ag 'choir'? What do you feel are some of the best ways for youth (FFA, 4H) to partake in agvocacy? AgVocacy was the topic of AgChat right on the close of the Agvocacy 2.0 conference in Nashville, TN.

Summer Time Grilling Summer is coming to a close, get that grill out! How do you grill that fresh corn? And what is a good approach to keeping fish from sticking to the grill? This timely FoodChat convo shares some grilling tips.

How can mobile help in ag? How much time do you spend on your mobile devices? Do you ever scan QR codes to access more info from retailers or suppliers in advertising? Mobile technology was the focus of this recent AgChat conversation.