Effective communication starts with understanding your audience—who they are, what they know, why they’re listening, and what they need to hear. Learn how this awareness can help you deliver a message your audience will understand, connect with, and remember.
This is an article by Marc Hill, an Article Out Loud from Domestic Preparedness, April 9, 2025. Effective communication starts with understanding your audience—who they are, what they know, why they’re listening, and what they need to hear. Learn how this awareness can help you deliver a message your audience will understand, connect with, and remember.
Coupled with continued staffing challenges, mental health and work-life balance difficulties in emergency call centers are cause for concern. By allowing artificial intelligence (AI) to take some of the burden off from existing staff and leadership, focus can be returned to where it is most needed within each center.
This is an article by Tanya Scherr, an Article Out Loud from Domestic Preparedness, April 2, 2025. Coupled with continued staffing challenges, mental health and work-life balance difficulties in emergency call centers are cause for concern. Learn how AI can take some of the burden from existing staff and leadership, so focus can be returned to where it is most needed within each center. Now to the featured article.
Featured in this issue: Editor’s Note: Protecting Food and Agriculture: Bigger Than Rising Egg Prices, by Catherine L. Feinman; Beyond the Showcase: Strengthening Biosecurity at Livestock Exhibitions, by Joshua Dise; Farm to Power: Introduction of Compressed Natural Gas to Rural Communities, by Russ Kane; Agricultural Supply Chain Vulnerability: A Freight Rail Disruption Case Study, by Michael Sharon and Randy Treadwell; Agroterrorism: A Persistent but Overlooked Threat, by Dan Scherr and Tanya Scherr; Agriculture Security: Systems-Based Preparedness, by Joshua Dise and Adrian Self; The Societal and Economic Dangers of Agroterrorism, by Michael (Mike) Nicholls; Cost Analysis: Protecting the Grid and Electronics from an EMP, by The Foundation for Infrastructure Resilience; The Human Factor in Cybersecurity Events: Critical Education Components, by Dan Scherr & Tanya Scherr; Advisor Spotlight: Interview with Anthony Mangeri
As economies and populations grow, the food and agricultural security is of increasing concern. This demands proactive investment in risk management and security measures to ensure the sustainability of the global food supply.
The authors in the March 2024 edition of the Domestic Preparedness Journal share their expert insights on topics that may be overlooked by nonrural communities and why common agricultural and critical infrastructure operations should be on the minds of any emergency preparedness professional.
In the interest of reducing methane pollution and establishing a revenue stream for a renewable resource, dairy and livestock operators are creating mechanisms to produce compressed natural gas. This new technology reduces greenhouse gases but also introduces new hazards to rural communities.
This is an article by Joshua Dise and Adrian Self, an Article Out Loud from Domestic Preparedness, March 26, 2025. As economies and populations grow, food and agricultural security is of increasing concern. Learn how proactive investment in risk management and security measures can ensure the sustainability of the global food supply.
This is an article by Russ Kane, an Article Out Loud from Domestic Preparedness, March 26, 2025. In the interest of reducing methane pollution and establishing a revenue stream for a renewable resource, dairy and livestock operators are creating mechanisms to produce compressed natural gas. This new technology reduces greenhouse gases but also introduces new hazards to rural communities. Learn how new technology that reduces greenhouse gases also introduces new hazards to rural communities.
Effective communication starts with understanding your audience—who they are, what they know, why they’re listening, and what they need to hear. Learn how this awareness can help you deliver a message your audience will understand, connect with, and remember. 
This is an article by Marc Hill, an Article Out Loud from Domestic Preparedness, April 9, 2025. Effective communication starts with understanding your audience—who they are, what they know, why they’re listening, and what they need to hear. Learn how this awareness can help you deliver a message your audience will understand, connect with, and remember.
Coupled with continued staffing challenges, mental health and work-life balance difficulties in emergency call centers are cause for concern. By allowing artificial intelligence (AI) to take some of the burden off from existing staff and leadership, focus can be returned to where it is most needed within each center. 
Featured in this issue: Editor’s Note: Protecting Food and Agriculture: Bigger Than Rising Egg Prices, by Catherine L. Feinman; Beyond the Showcase: Strengthening Biosecurity at Livestock Exhibitions, by Joshua Dise; Farm to Power: Introduction of Compressed Natural Gas to Rural Communities, by Russ Kane; Agricultural Supply Chain Vulnerability: A Freight Rail Disruption Case Study, by Michael Sharon and Randy Treadwell; Agroterrorism: A Persistent but Overlooked Threat, by Dan Scherr and Tanya Scherr; Agriculture Security: Systems-Based Preparedness, by Joshua Dise and Adrian Self; The Societal and Economic Dangers of Agroterrorism, by Michael (Mike) Nicholls; Cost Analysis: Protecting the Grid and Electronics from an EMP, by The Foundation for Infrastructure Resilience; The Human Factor in Cybersecurity Events: Critical Education Components, by Dan Scherr & Tanya Scherr; Advisor Spotlight: Interview with Anthony Mangeri 
As economies and populations grow, the food and agricultural security is of increasing concern. This demands proactive investment in risk management and security measures to ensure the sustainability of the global food supply. 
The authors in the March 2024 edition of the Domestic Preparedness Journal share their expert insights on topics that may be overlooked by nonrural communities and why common agricultural and critical infrastructure operations should be on the minds of any emergency preparedness professional. 
In the interest of reducing methane pollution and establishing a revenue stream for a renewable resource, dairy and livestock operators are creating mechanisms to produce compressed natural gas. This new technology reduces greenhouse gases but also introduces new hazards to rural communities. 