How to Protect Yourself From Animal Activism

A Recap of This Summit Session

With warmer weather over the summer months, you may be hosting community events or inviting more people onto your farm. While it’s important to open the barn doors and connect with consumers, how can you protect yourself from threats like animal activists?

During the Pennsylvania Dairy Summit in February, Casey Kinler from the Animal Agriculture Alliance joined Master Trooper Kelly Osborne with the Pennsylvania State Police and Brook Duer, attorney at the Penn State Center for Agricultural and Shale Law, for the “Protecting Yourself from Animal Activism” panel discussion. They shared how farmers can adopt farm security protocols, engage with their local law enforcement, do their due diligence during the hiring process, understand property rights, and more.

Click below to access slides from their presentations to share with your dairy team:

• Casey’s presentation
• Brook’s presentation 

Highlight from their session:

“It doesn’t take advanced and expensive technology or equipment to deter activists – basic farm security can go a long way to making yourself a harder target … Building relationships and having proactive discussions with your local law enforcement have also been shown to make a considerable difference in effectively managing a protest or other activist incident,” Casey said.

Click Here to Read a Recap of the Session

A special thank you to this year’s Summit sponsors. Without their support, we couldn’t bring top-notch speakers with expertise on real-time dairy issues.

Save the Date for Next Year

The 2023 PA Dairy Summit will be held on February 8-9, 2023 at the Penn Stater in State College, PA.

We’ll update www.padairysummit.org with details as they are confirmed. We hope to see you there!

Want to listen back to your favorite keynote sessions from the 2022 Pennsylvania Dairy Summit? The recordings from each keynote session are now available in podcast format! Listen at your convenience and consider sharing them with your dairy farm team.

Click here to listen to the podcast recordings on your phone or computer. They are also available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Amazon Music if you search “PA Dairy Summit.”

If you want to share slides from your favorite sessions with your dairy team, the Summit app is available for six months. All presentations are uploaded there. Simply click on the Schedule, then click on the session you attended that you liked, and the presentation will be listed at the bottom of the session listing.

You can also view the presentations on the Summit website for easy downloading. Click here to view the program webpage. Scroll to the session you attended and click on the slides that are linked there.