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Animal Ag News 4/1

Agwired

The purpose of the award, which has been presented since 2013, is to recognize outstanding completed research projects, funded by USPOULTRY or the USPOULTRY Foundation, that have had a transformative effect on the poultry industry. Cox Graduate Student Scholarship in Poultry Food Safety in honor of the late Dr. Nelson Cox.

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Walmart’s ‘Regenerative Foodscape’

Civil Eats

His mom, Christy Walton—widow to Sam’s son John—has a net worth of about $11 billion, which she has used to fund restaurants, large ocean aquaculture projects, and a 40,000-acre ranch that offers a “regenerative experience” to tourists and has acted as a site for research on land and livestock management. It won’t be easy.

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Animal Ag News 4/1

Agwired

Many agricultural producers, including Alltech customers, have been devastated by the recent wildfires across Texas and Oklahoma. Last amended in 2004, the meat and poultry ELGs currently apply to about 180 of the estimated 5,300 meat and poultry facilities nationwide. The National Milk Producers Federation , the largest U.S.

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Animal Ag News 3/26

Agwired

poultry and egg product exports, culminating several months of collaborations with the Colombian Institute of Agriculture to resolve this trade barrier. poultry and egg product exports, culminating several months of collaborations with the Colombian Institute of Agriculture to resolve this trade barrier.

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Our 2024 Food and Farming Holiday Book Gift Guide

Civil Eats

The young couple started a 180-acre dairy farm for livelihood to raise their 14 children. In his debut book, Nuggets of Gold , historian Patrick Dixon offers a primer on the history of concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), the poultry industry, and the chicken nugget. agricultural and foreign policy.

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A Deep Dive on the Senate’s Farm Bill Proposal: the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act of 2024

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

As with all programs, NSAC will continue to analyze the RPFSA’s CSP provisions, including a proposed one-time CSP subprogram focused on enrollment of up to 500,000 acres of native or improved pasture land used for livestock grazing in the Lower Mississippi River Valley to address water quality issues leading to hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Animal Ag News 11/11

Agwired

The National Institute for Animal Agriculture (NIAA) will accept nominations and applications for the fourth Cohort of the Advanced Training for Animal Agriculture Leaders through November 17. for USPOULTRY ’s 2024 Poultry Protein & Fat Seminar. Preliminary analysis of corn silage samples in the U.S.