<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/2017/11/kentucky-state-university-president-served-as-keynote-speaker-for-small-farmers-conference.php" dsn="news"><featured/><pubDate>11/17/2017</pubDate><title>Kentucky State University president served as keynote speaker for Small Farmers Conference</title><author/><summary/><image><img src="https://kysu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/president-brown-small-farm-conference-featured-image.jpg" alt="Kentucky State University president served as keynote speaker for Small Farmers Conference"/></image><caption/><description>Kentucky State University President M. Christopher Brown II delivered a keynote address to hundreds of farmers from 10 states and 41 Kentucky counties Nov. 15 during the 2017 Kentucky Small, Limited Resource, Minority Farmers Conference held at Kentucky State. President Brown said his father was a sharecropper in South Carolina, but he never fully understood the role of small farmers until his presidency at Alcorn State University....</description></item>