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"...the happier we'll be" (hums softly). Monica Mathias has submitted an article with excellent examples of how important it is to get together with other members of the community to increase understanding and make collaboration more effective.

The last list of oat descriptors defined by the FAO was published in 1985. Would you be able to help update the list? Then please read on:

Oat Global is requesting help from the larger oat community. Changes to federal funding rules could have a serious impact on oat research in the United States. Please read this document and submit your comments before the July 11th deadline.

While I have your attention, there are more time-sensitive items to share, including:

Tomorrow, June 30th, is the deadline for Early Bird registration for the International Oat Conference in Pucón, Chile. (If the page comes up in Spanish and you need English, just click on the little British flag in the top right corner of the page.)

The program overview can be found here. Other details can be accessed via the home page of the main website.

Hope to see you in Pucón!

Here is more news concerning oat-related events over the next few months:

Firstly, the deadline to register for the Oat Global Field Day in South Dakota on June 29-30 has been extended until Sunday, June 14th!

Secondly, the upcoming Oat Frontiers project meeting will be taking place in Ireland on June 24th, but there will be a hybrid component. The deadline to register for that is June 22nd.

This year, Oat Global will be having their field day in Brookings, South Dakota, USA, from June 29th - 30th. The event is being co-hosted by Pablo Olivera Firpo from Oat Global and Melanie Caffe from SDSU.

Details are in the calendar. The deadline to register is June 5th!

This is just a quick update with a few time-sensitive items. Firstly, Gongshe Hu from USDA-ARS at Aberdeen, Idaho, will be retiring soon, and his position is available to be filled. It is part of a larger effort by the USDA-ARS recruiting Research Geneticists studying plants. The work will continue to focus on developing and releasing pre-breeding germplasm in support of public breeders. June 25th is the closing date for applications.

Registration for OAT2026 (IOC12) is now open! The Early Bird deadline is June 30th.

Information about accommodations is also available now. Please see the main conference website for more about OAT2026, and the newsletter's IOC page for more about the IOC in general.

April 25th is quite a solemn day for those of you in Australia and New Zealand, being Anzac Day. In ancient Rome, however, that was when people celebrated the festival of Robigalia, dedicated to the preservation of cereal crops from rust and other diseases.

It's time to start making arrangements to attend the International Oat Conference in Chile this November! People already on the IOC list recently received an update on the preparations from Claudia Acosta. The information from that update has been posted on the newsletter's IOC page.