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Animal Ag News 8/7

Agwired

Poultry & Egg Association is now accepting nominations for the 2024 Family Farm Environmental Excellence Award. The award recognizes exemplary environmental stewardship by family farmers engaged in poultry and egg production. We welcome his wealth of experience in, and knowledge of, American beef from farm to fork.

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Animal Ag News 11/25

Agwired

America’s cattle producers need a Secretary of Agriculture who will protect family farms and ranches, roll back crushing regulations, and stand up for rural values—and we look forward to working with Secretary-Designate Rollins to make it happen.” 5 during CattleCon 2025 in San Antonio, Texas.

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Our 2024 Food and Farming Holiday Book Gift Guide

Civil Eats

Through captivating case studies, Thurow’s hopeful book showcases farmers who have boldly gone against the grain of modern agriculture orthodoxy and are instead embracing regenerative practices—like agroecology and permaculture—that restore soil health, enhance biodiversity, and promote resilience against climate change.

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Animal Ag News 12/24

Agwired

The new facility is the result of a partnership between McCarty Family Farms and the Transforming the Farmer to Consumer Supply Chain (Transform F2C) initiative. Department of Agricultures Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities Program. Transform F2C is a $70 million project funded by the U.S.

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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

Local Food: Markets, Supply Chains and Access The farm bill plays an important role in supporting the health and prosperity of our rural and urban communities. It also offers a new flexible financial product for food supply chains by expanding the Food Supply Chain Guaranteed Loans to offer complimentary grants.

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125 Food and Agriculture Organizations to Watch in 2025

Food Tank

They are behind the Fair Food Program , a partnership that seeks to create a more ethical supply chain that benefits workers, growers, retailers, and eaters. Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) , United States EDF leverages science, economics, and advocacy to tackle global environmental challenges, including those in food and agriculture.

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The Upcoming Farm Bill: What’s Needed (Courtesy of Civil Eats)

Food Politics

In the bills, they proposed a wide range of changes, from more support for urban agriculture and small farms to new programs for farmer conservation education to improvements to the nation’s supply chain infrastructure and provisions that would expand SNAP access for college students and Tribes.

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