<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/2022/11/ksu-annual-conference-reaches-new-audiences.php" dsn="news"><featured/><pubDate>11/18/2022</pubDate><title>Kentucky State University’s annual conference reaches new audiences, attracts beginning farmers</title><author/><summary/><image><img src="https://www.kysu.edu/brand-identity-approved-images/news-images/Beginning%20Farmers.jpg" alt="Kentucky State University’s annual conference reaches new audiences, attracts beginning farmers"/></image><caption/><description>Thirty-five percent of participants at the 2022 Small, Limited-Resource, Minority Farmers Conference attended for the first time. Kentucky State University Land Grant Program personnel are always looking for ways to expand their reach and interact with more stakeholders across Kentucky and beyond. The Land Grant Program also prioritizes reaching beginning farmers, defined by the U.S. Department of Agriculture as anyone who has oper...</description></item>