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‘Fueling Our Farmers’ offers help in a stressful time

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AUDUBON, Minn. — Farmers have a lot on their plates during the hectic times of harvest. One small town church and community sought to take something off their plate — with a plate of food.

Off-and-on rain showers have been hindering

some of the harvest that is ready to come off fields in and around west central Minnesota, where First Lutheran Church of Audubon gathers in a town of about 550 people. The church brings together about 45 worshippers each Sunday morning. While there’s not nearly as many farmers attending as there once was, the impact of farmers is not lost here.

“We have a lot of farmers whose family members work diligently to feed them every single day while they are in the field,” according to Pastor Melissa Pickering.

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Notes of appreciation were scattered about the serving area of the event at First Lutheran Church in Audubon, Minnesota.

Michael Johnson / Agweek

That’s why the group came up with an idea to show some appreciation to the farmers who put food on their tables every day, by putting together a lunch Saturday, Oct. 7. It was free to farmers and supported widespread by businesses and community members from Audubon, Hawley and Detroit Lakes, according to Pickering. They call it

“Fueling Our Farmers.”

Brittany Nordick, human resources manager for Team Industries, which has locations in Audubon and Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, was one of those helping during the event.

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“Anything that is around the community, we are all for it,” Nordick said. Nordick’s husband is a farmer, and she is well aware of the importance of showing appreciation to the farming community.

Team Industries donated about 200 servings of potato salad for the event.

Carol Huesman, a member of First Lutheran Church for 56 years, and Jean Alder, a member for about 30 years, both serve on the church council and were at work at the event Saturday. Huesman said the event was a good way for the church to come together and help honor farmers.

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First Lutheran Church members Jean Alder and Carol Huesman talk about why the “Fueling Our Farmers” event was important to them.

Michael Johnson / Agweek

“As a church community we want to reach out to the community of farmers that helps everybody,” Alder said.

So after days of preparation and after a full force of volunteers gathered to assemble the meals, the group spent much of the time in fellowship, awaiting farmers. With an abundance of moisture and no field work at hand, few farmers could be found, unfortunately.

The group was praying that better

weather

was on the way for farmers.

“It’s just been a blessing to all of us to get together and do the planning and do the preparation. It’s just been joyful fellowship for all of us,” Huesman said.

Some 135 meals were still sent out toward Barnesville, Minnesota, for groups of

sugarbeet harvesters.

The volunteers know that their work was not in vain as it spawned other communities to take up the torch, and they plan to host similar events in the future that reach out to farmers or other groups in need, Pickering said.

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“The whole goal is how can we go to them rather than them having to come to us,” Pickering said.

Pickering splits her time between pastoring at the Audubon church and working at the Northwestern Minnesota ELCA Synod in Moorhead, Minnesota.

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Pastor Melissa Pickering of First Lutheran Church in Audubon, Minnesota.

Michael Johnson / Agweek

In her visits with churches throughout the Midwest she tries to find out what needs exist in the communities and what the church could be doing about it. There is monthly focus work on community engagement. In Audubon, the need outside of the church walls was to show appreciation to the farmers that are hard at work.

Pickering planned for the event by sending out a message to the region asking for four things: their presence, their presents, their prayers and help with promotions. The community responded with an abundance.

Pickering was overjoyed that businesses stepped up to donate all the food for the event and many other businesses agreed to come and serve that food. The group not only sought to fuel farmers with food, they even received gas cards to give away for added assistance. Alder said the plan to offer up gas cards from the local gas station was to give back to farmers who have been fueling the community and economy around them.

For farmers that opened their food boxes they found a roast beef sandwich, potato salad, chips and a bar. The group was hopeful that they would feel full and appreciated.

Something unexpected came for some of those farmers when the church members asked if they could pray for them — and their tractors in the field.

A major motivator for having an event that shows appreciation for the farmers came from a funeral service Pickering was a part of this spring. One of the church members that was a farmer had passed away, and his funeral included a procession of tractors from the church to the cemetery. When the church took a moment to pray for the farmers, she felt the impact.

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“It’s pretty powerful to see farmers cry … that was a really big deal,” Pickering said. “It got me thinking about how often we neglect farmers need that support from us and how much they appreciated it when we did it.”

Pickering said the goal in building an event like this is not to build church membership or bring in money, but it is to bring visibility to the church, that they are working to solve issues in their communities and meet needs outside their own walls.

“So that’s the goal, in all of these small and rural town congregations, is, you know, when our membership is declining, what can we do to be more engaged in the community, especially a community that is not getting more people,” Pickering said.

She said the church needs to remain vital in the community. For this church, which is celebrating 150 years in the heart of the community, that vitality remains apparent.

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AUDUBON, Minn. — Farmers have a lot on their plates during the hectic times of harvest. One small town church and community sought to take something off their plate — with a plate of food.

Off-and-on rain showers have been hindering

some of the harvest that is ready to come off fields in and around west central Minnesota, where First Lutheran Church of Audubon gathers in a town of about 550 people. The church brings together about 45 worshippers each Sunday morning. While there’s not nearly as many farmers attending as there once was, the impact of farmers is not lost here.

“We have a lot of farmers whose family members work diligently to feed them every single day while they are in the field,” according to Pastor Melissa Pickering.

That’s why the group came up with an idea to show some appreciation to the farmers who put food on their tables every day, by putting together a lunch Saturday, Oct. 7. It was free to farmers and supported widespread by businesses and community members from Audubon, Hawley and Detroit Lakes, according to Pickering. They call it

“Fueling Our Farmers.”

Brittany Nordick, human resources manager for Team Industries, which has locations in Audubon and Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, was one of those helping during the event.

“Anything that is around the community, we are all for it,” Nordick said. Nordick’s husband is a farmer, and she is well aware of the importance of showing appreciation to the farming community.

Team Industries donated about 200 servings of potato salad for the event.

Carol Huesman, a member of First Lutheran Church for 56 years, and Jean Alder, a member for about 30 years, both serve on the church council and were at work at the event Saturday. Huesman said the event was a good way for the church to come together and help honor farmers.

“As a church community we want to reach out to the community of farmers that helps everybody,” Alder said.

So after days of preparation and after a full force of volunteers gathered to assemble the meals, the group spent much of the time in fellowship, awaiting farmers. With an abundance of moisture and no field work at hand, few farmers could be found, unfortunately.

“It’s just been a blessing to all of us to get together and do the planning and do the preparation. It’s just been joyful fellowship for all of us,” Huesman said.

Some 135 meals were still sent out toward Barnesville, Minnesota, for groups of

sugarbeet harvesters.

The volunteers know that their work was not in vain as it spawned other communities to take up the torch, and they plan to host similar events in the future that reach out to farmers or other groups in need, Pickering said.

“The whole goal is how can we go to them rather than them having to come to us,” Pickering said.

Pickering splits her time between pastoring at the Audubon church and working at the Northwestern Minnesota ELCA Synod in Moorhead, Minnesota.
In her visits with churches throughout the Midwest she tries to find out what needs exist in the communities and what the church could be doing about it. There is monthly focus work on community engagement. In Audubon, the need outside of the church walls was to show appreciation to the farmers that are hard at work.

Pickering planned for the event by sending out a message to the region asking for four things: their presence, their presents, their prayers and help with promotions. The community responded with an abundance.

Pickering was overjoyed that businesses stepped up to donate all the food for the event and many other businesses agreed to come and serve that food. The group not only sought to fuel farmers with food, they even received gas cards to give away for added assistance. Alder said the plan to offer up gas cards from the local gas station was to give back to farmers who have been fueling the community and economy around them.

For farmers that opened their food boxes they found a roast beef sandwich, potato salad, chips and a bar. The group was hopeful that they would feel full and appreciated.

Something unexpected came for some of those farmers when the church members asked if they could pray for them — and their tractors in the field.

A major motivator for having an event that shows appreciation for the farmers came from a funeral service Pickering was a part of this spring. One of the church members that was a farmer had passed away, and his funeral included a procession of tractors from the church to the cemetery. When the church took a moment to pray for the farmers, she felt the impact.

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Mitigating Insider Threats: Five Strategies for Critical Infrastructure Entities this Cybersecurity Awareness Month

Power Mag

A New York Times Magazine expose detailed the complicated and shockingly brazen inner workings of international espionage. However, the spies profiled weren’t targeting government secrets. They were interested in corporate intellectual property, or IP, an equally valuable commodity in today’s highly competitive global economy.

Specifically, the publication reported systemic efforts to entice employees at critical infrastructure entities (including power generation facilities) to supply company data, produce product schematics, or install malware on corporate devices. The incident is emblematic of the significant cybersecurity threats experienced by critical infrastructure entities globally, an important topic during the upcoming Cybersecurity Awareness Month, held each October.

COMMENTARY

Cybersecurity experts often talk about their most common cause for concern: people. Even as critical infrastructure entities like power utilities invest heavily to harden their cyber readiness capabilities, many are not accounting for the reality that 82% of data breaches involve the human element.

As the National Counterintelligence and Security Center warned critical infrastructure entities in 2021, “While insider threats come in many forms, foreign adversaries often seek to exploit employees in U.S. and allied critical infrastructure entities to advance their interests.”

Isaac Kohen

These insider threats, including leaders, employees, contractors, and other trusted third parties with access to company data and IT infrastructure, are intentionally or accidentally the weak link and fatal flaw in critical infrastructure’s best-laid cyber-readiness plans.

For example, one compromised password for an outdated virtual private network (VPN) account allowed the costly and incredibly consequential Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack. According to the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center’s annual report, 36% of all ransomware attacks were directed at critical infrastructure, underscoring the connection between people and security capability.

Collectively, insider threats pose a significant cybersecurity risk to power and energy providers as a core critical infrastructure entity. Here are five ways to mitigate that risk now.

Employee Training

While people are increasingly aware of our precarious cybersecurity environment, most employees don’t recognize the important role they play in protecting critical assets.

According to one industry study, 30% of employees don’t think they personally play a role in the company’s cybersecurity posture. Incredibly, just 39% of employees say they are likely to report a security incident, and 42% say they wouldn’t know if they had caused a cybersecurity incident.

Even many intentional cybersecurity violations are predicated on ignorance. As The Harvard Business Review recently explained, “the vast majority of intentional policy breaches stem not from some malicious desire to cause harm, but rather, from the perception that following the rules would impede employees’ ability to get their work done effectively.”

Fortunately, employee training can make an impact, equipping employees with skills and context to actively enhance the company’s cybersecurity capabilities. These trainings might include:

  • Phishing simulations
  • Security quizzes
  • Training materials
  • In-person workshops
  • Security awareness games

At the end of the day, most employees want to keep company and customer data safe, but they need the skills and awareness to do that.

Access Control

When it comes to data availability, access should be tightly restricted and entirely controlled. Rule-based access control policies allow cybersecurity teams and admins to customize access to sensitive systems, company or customer data, and other digital assets.

Additionally, leveraging zero-trust solutions can elevate these efforts. Unlike traditional access control models, zero trust access control solutions default to deny, only providing access to services the user has been explicitly granted.

Ensuring that data is accessed appropriately will help protect data and prevent accidental or malicious misuse.

Monitoring and Detection

User Activity Monitoring (UAM) is an essential tool in the toolbox of insider prevention instruments. This technology observes, analyzes, and records digital activity for insiders operating on a critical infrastructure entity’s network.

Often offering granular controls that personalize monitoring and detection efforts, UAM solutions allow cybersecurity teams to capture live screen and audio records, compile OCR and fingerprinting logs, and other relevant data to maintain accountability across the organizations.

What’s more, UAM solutions can provide real-time notifications for cybersecurity teams, alerting personnel of a potential problem and ensuring that emergency’s a met with the urgency they demand.

Incident Response

When cybersecurity incidents arise, critical infrastructure entities must be able to thoroughly investigate and respond to the breach. Incident response capacity is critical to maintaining internal accountability standards, progressively improving cybersecurity capabilities, and accommodating regulatory or investigative requirements.

For instance, in the aftermath of the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, cybersecurity teams were able to identify the vulnerability and improve their defensive posture moving forward. In fact, these learnings extended beyond the company, impacting critical infrastructure entities across sectors.

As one industry publication explains, “Because of the Colonial Pipeline attack, many CISOs became aware of significant blind spots in their security operations centers (SOCs) because they weren’t monitoring their operational technology (OT) networks.”

In a perfect world, critical infrastructure companies will always be one step ahead of the bad guys. However, if those efforts come up short, incident response capabilities will ensure they aren’t left vulnerable in the same way again.

Agile Leadership

Threat actors are highly motivated to remain agile and elusive, always devising new ways to undermine emerging vulnerabilities. Industry leaders need to remain similarly nimble.

This means that leaders can’t just approve increasingly large cybersecurity budgets and assume they are protecting the company and its customers. Instead, they must stay ahead of the latest threats, developing the skills and adopting the strategies necessary to protect critical infrastructure.

Today, that means accounting for insider threats by appropriately protecting their highly valuable data, IT access, and intellectual property from accidental or malicious insiders. Tomorrow, that risk could change, and leaders will need to adapt and change once again.

—Isaac Kohen is Chief Product Officer & Founder of Teramind, a leading global provider of insider threat management, data loss prevention and productivity optimization solutions powered by user behavior analytics. Teramind has provided more than 10,000 organizations around the world with actionable, data-backed workforce insights that reduce risk, increase productivity, and streamline business operations.

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The power of flowers draws visitors to Oxbow Orchards

AG Week

GRAFTON, N.D. — Trevon and Beth Unruh sell a fall flower rooted in ancient times that they produce with an old-fashioned work ethic and market with contemporary techniques.

The owners of

Oxbow Orchards,

together with their six children, grow chrysanthemums in a rainbow of colors on their farm near Grafton. They direct-market them to individual customers and sell them wholesale to boutiques, specialty stores and grocery stores.

This year the Unruh family produced 10,000 pots of chrysanthemums in colors that include bronze, coral, purple, white and yellow. The Unruhs also sell tri-colored chrysanthemum pots — three chrysanthemums of different colors grown in a single container.

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Energy Is the Most-Targeted Sector for Cyberattacks: Here’s What to Do

Power Mag

The energy sector recorded three times as many operational technology (OT) and/or industrial control system (ICS) cybersecurity incidents as the next closest vertical, according to a study conducted by the Cyentia Institute, a research and data science firm, and sponsored by Rockwell Automation, an industrial automation and information provider.

“Energy, critical manufacturing, water treatment, and nuclear facilities are among the types of critical infrastructure industries under attack in the majority of reported incidents,” Mark Cristiano, commercial director of Global Cybersecurity Services at Rockwell Automation, said in a statement released with the report.

SCADA Systems Commonly Targeted, Phishing a Popular Technique

The report, titled “Anatomy of 100+ Cybersecurity Incidents in Industrial Operations: A Research Study With Recommendations For Strengthening Defenses in OT/ICS,” also found that nearly 60% of cyberattacks against the industrial sector are led by state-affiliated actors. In more than half of OT/ICS incidents, supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems are targeted (53%), with programmable logic controllers (PLCs) as the next-most-common target (22%).

The study was tightly focused on OT/ICS security incidents. Researchers reportedly analyzed 122 OT incidents spread across North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. Cyentia said it collected nearly 100 data points for each incident and built several models to examine relationships around the data, revealing patterns that led to the conclusions in this report.

Phishing was cited as the most-popular attack technique (34%). Other common access vectors include external remote services (19%), replication through removable media (13%), remote services (11%), and supply chain compromise (8%).

The report notes that there was a 2,000% increase last year in “adversarial reconnaissance targeting Modbus/TCP port 502,” a commonly used industrial protocol, which could allow hackers to control physical devices and disrupt OT operations. In fact, the report says 60% of the OT/ICS incidents analyzed resulted in operational disruption, and 40% resulted in unauthorized access or data exposure.

How to Reduce Cyberattack Risks

“The dramatic spike in OT and ICS cybersecurity incidents calls for organizations to take immediate action to improve their cybersecurity posture or they risk becoming the next victim of a breach,” said Sid Snitkin, vice president of Cybersecurity Advisory Services with ARC Advisory Group, a technology research and advisory firm for the industrial, energy, and infrastructure markets.

“Having a strong, modern OT/ICS security program in place must be a part of every industrial organization’s responsibility to maintain safe, secure operations and ongoing availability,” the report says. To get started, it recommends the following:

  • Focus on defense-in-depth, including pulling from structures such as Zero Trust and the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Cybersecurity Framework.
  • Secure remote access through stronger passwords and multifactor authentication.
  • Monitor for threats 24/7.
  • Segment information technology (IT) and OT to make the most of firewall configurations that will help keep IT attacks from bleeding into OT environments.
  • Continuously train internal staff to keep up with the latest phishing scams and how to avoid them.

“Anticipating that stricter regulations and standards for reporting cybersecurity attacks will become commonplace, the market can expect to gain invaluable insights regarding the nature and severity of attacks and the defenses necessary to prevent them in the future,” said Cristiano. To download the full 34-page report, visit: rockwellautomation.com.

—Aaron Larson is POWER’s executive editor (@POWERmagazine).

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In Defense of Wasps 

Farm, Insects, Modern Farmer, Personal Essay

When I am talking to folks about wasps, I usually have to stop a couple of times and explain that when I say I love wasps, I truly do mean wasps. Yes, the stinging ones. Yes, the ones that stung you/your brother/your great-uncle Patrick and that you hate/despise/abhor. Yes, I promise.

Wasps are an incredibly diverse species, spanning from yellowjackets to bullet ants (despite the name, they are wasps), which provide countless ecological services—including protection for agriculture via pest prevention and pollination. As wasps are predators, they hunt prey, such as flies, caterpillars and spiders. Wasps, both the ones that live and work together (social wasps) and the ones that live and work on their own (solitary wasps) are constantly working in ways that benefit the environment and humanity as a whole, maintaining an important ecological balance.

Solitary wasps, as they specialize on one specific organism, are being introduced to farms as a method of biological pest control and to great success. Some states have begun to integrate wasps into their farming procedures and recommendations. In Oregon, for example, a parasitic wasp that preys upon a highly damaging fruit fly has been released by Oregon State University to assist with control of the pest, protecting one of Oregon’s most profitable crops, blueberries, which brings in approximately $183 million per year.

Wasps … are constantly working in ways that benefit the environment and humanity as a whole, maintaining an important ecological balance.

Parasitic wasps, a division of solitary wasps, have specific insects they parasitize, including notorious pests such as tomato worms and aphids. The wasps lay their eggs inside the host, often paralyzing them with venom and viruses. Their eggs will grow and eventually hatch out of the host, killing it. Social wasps such as hornets, paper wasps and yellowjackets also provide pest control on a large scale. In the United Kingdom, social wasps were estimated to capture 14 million kilograms (30,864,717 pounds) of prey. Wasps of all species and sizes play a vital and often unrecognized role in the ecosystem.

About 75 percent of the crops we grow depend to some extent on pollination. And wasps, like bees, are pollinators. While their most commonly recognized pollination role lies in commercial fig production and orchid pollination, many other wasp species are also pollinators. Pollen wasps, which feed only on nectar and pollen, are key pollinators in their range around the world. Social wasps are generalist pollinators, bringing pollen with them as they fly from flower to flower. In certain cases, both yellowjackets and paper wasps have been found to outperform honey bees in pollen transfers. Other solitary wasps, such as the European beewolf and hairy flower wasp, have more hair than a typical wasp, transferring a lot of pollen between various plants. 

Wasps, like bees, are pollinators. (Photo courtesy of Anna Lovat)

And yet, despite all this, they aren’t exactly popular creatures, and sometimes advocating for them seems like yelling into a void. (Well, a void that likes to yell back.) Most are confused as to why a hated insect could be loved, especially by a teen, and a girl at that. When this happens, I like to go back to the beginning. 

You see, my epic love story—the one we all have, the one that fundamentally changes our lives, the one that shifts how we see the world—began out of spite. In my love story, there’s no boy meets girl or girl meets girl. Instead, I met a wasp.

In the summer of 2021, I was 15 years old and had secured a paid internship at the University of Minnesota’s bee lab. We’d meet via Zoom, discuss pollinators and learn about the natural world around us. I saw the word “paid” and was immediately on board. It seemed like an easy way to spend a summer and, best of all, I was going to make some money out of it. 

Once a week, we got together and learned about pollinators and the threats they face to their health. We spent evenings learning about different types of grass and soil, roadside pollination and the dependence of humans on the often unnoticed work of insects. Throughout the summer, wasps had been mentioned sporadically, as they are important pollinators but not nearly as well known as bees. Like clockwork, every time wasps were brought up, several of the boys in my group would describe their hatred of wasps, calling them “the devil’s spawn,” “nature’s mistake” and so on. Perhaps I had heard myself described similarly one too many times because I was filled with peevish determination to prove those boys wrong—to find something within wasps that was beneficial, that would make people care. 

The only problem was that I didn’t know anything about wasps. I’d seen a couple of them but from a safe distance. I began to furiously devote myself to learning everything I could about wasps. I read Wikipedia articles, research papers, kids’ books, biology textbooks, books on the classifications of Hymenoptera—anything and everything I could get my hands on, which turned out to be not much. Insects are a group with poor publicity and public response, and within that, most of the research and funding is given to the prettier insects. Wasps, known for their warning colors and stings, don’t quite fit that bill.

“When I say I love wasps, I truly do mean wasps.” (Photo courtesy of Anna Lovat)

The day I fell in love for the first time is the same day to which I credit my first kiss. Sitting on my porch in the sticky Minnesota summer, I was reading a children’s book about frightening insects. Absorbed in the illustrations of paper wasps, I at first did not notice the one that alighted upon my palm. She began to crawl across my hands and then up my arm and, gradually, as I, at first terrified, began to calm, she alighted on my face and began to explore, nibbling my lips with her mouth. It is hard to explain what I felt in those moments—certainly fear but also a keen sense of wonder. Here was this magnificent creature, vastly misunderstood and greatly feared, and yet she had been gentle with me. How could I look at her and not love her? 

When I first began talking to people about wasps, I found myself frequently alone. I was standing on my soapbox and trying to convince people that what they thought they knew was wrong. It didn’t help that I was a woman, and thus, every time I spoke, I was challenged. Online, where I tried my best to keep my comments polite and informative, I was called names, and once, memorably, I was told I’d be “lit on fire, along with all the wasp nests.” I was dismayed. You see, I had (perhaps naively) believed that when I showed up (so excited!) ready to teach and learn along with others, I would be welcomed with open arms. And for a long time, I didn’t find that. Yet, my love for wasps persisted. 

Throughout the years since, where I have found hatred thrown in my face, I have also experienced the kindness of strangers. I have taught children how to hold wasps and bees alike, in some small way showing them the power of questioning what you are taught. None of them have been stung. I have met older women who watched me leaning into bushes, often holding a net and asking me what in the world I was doing. 

I have learned to look for people who, like me, have been pushed to the side for their oddities and those who have been boxed into categories simply because of how they were born. 

Wasps have taught me to open my heart, and I am a better person for it.

Born and raised in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Anna (@annalouise014) spends her days poking various insects and doing her math homework. She is also the designated spider relocator of her family.

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