The Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) Outreach and its national partners have announced they will temporarily suspend the SARE Fellows program and will not by accepting Fellows applications this year. SARE Fellows, which began in 2007, has been utilized by agricultural professionals for professional development opportunities through national study tours focused on sustainable agriculture. In a statement, SARE says the Fellows program has not changed since it began and program updates are necessary to meet the current needs of the nation’s sustainable agricultural communities and partners. Pausing the program will allow them time to focus on improvements. They plan to relaunch a new SARE Outreach program in the future that is similar in its intention to the SARE Fellows program. They say the new program will still provide professional development opportunities to agricultural professionals and will continue to keep sustainable agriculture and farmers at the center of its mission.