NASDA

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Each proposed rulemaking or agency action requires a significant amount of stakeholder engagement and competing timelines and comment periods have not provided NASDA members, nor the agricultural employers and producers in their states, enough time for thorough review and comment. gross domestic product (GDP) in 2021, a 5.4%

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

It also provides an inside look at efforts underway to usher the federal regulation of animal food into the 21st century and steps the industry is taking to better protect animal and human health while producing safer, more sustainable food. The issue has been brought to the national forefront in recent years, as the U.S.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

While their investments and philanthropy tend to float under the radar compared to those of other billionaires, already it’s nearly impossible to turn a corner in the realm of sustainable food and agriculture without running into Walton money. If Walmart does that, it goes against every grain of their corporate culture.”

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NASDA

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Each proposed rulemaking or agency action requires a significant amount of stakeholder engagement and competing timelines and comment periods have not provided NASDA members, nor the agricultural employers and producers in their states, enough time for thorough review and comment. gross domestic product in 2021, a 5.4%

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Transfarmation and Industrial Farm Animal Production, the Environment, and Public Health focus on the experience within the animal agriculture industry. High food prices and supply chain insecurities are only some of the challenges that farmers struggle with every season.

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Agwired

JANUARY 29, 2024

International Dairy Foods Association released the first ever State of Women in Dairy report to provide IDFA members and dairy industry with data-based metrics and recommendations to support gender equality across the entire supply chain. Schreiber Foods Inc. Thousands of cattlemen and women will gather in Orlando, Florida, Jan.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The Good Meat Project , a national nonprofit, is on a mission to catalyze marketplace innovation, connection, and education across the meat supply chain in order to increase the economic viability and ecological impact of livestock farmers who invest in healthy land, animals, and people.

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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 18, 2024

It also ensures a production system that is completely decentralized and much more stable and resilient than industrial animal agriculture with fermentation farms located in or close to towns and cities. This model ensures constant iteration so that products improve rapidly with each version superior and cheaper than the last.

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Agwired

AUGUST 7, 2023

beef industry supply chain expert and cattle rancher Lamar Steiger will join Protect The Harvest ’s advisory committee. Smithfield Foods , in partnership with Kroger, donated nearly 30,000 pounds of protein to Feed More to fight food insecurity in Central Virginia.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 3, 2024

In fact, we chose to use the word conventional specifically because it pointed to the sort of ‘conventional food supply chain,’ which is often what urban agriculture producers are attempting to intervene in.” “We were not necessarily attempting to compare urban and rural food production,” he said. “In The authors.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Smithfield Foods will end contracts with 26 hog farms in Utah to optimize its supply chain for more efficient operations in the face of an industry oversupply of pork, weaker consumer demand and high feed prices. Shuman Distinguished Service Award during the organization’s annual meeting in Chicago, Dec.

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Agwired

APRIL 1, 2024

FSF’s Managing Director Lauren Brey shared program details and answered attendee questions, explaining how farmers can help connect the supply chain by sharing data with downstream partners. Merck Animal Health announced it has received license approval from the U.S.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

As a result, butterfat levels in the national milk supply have risen sharply in response to changing demand patterns and dairy market dynamics. The economic incentives for a supermajority of the nation’s dairy farmers are firmly in place to produce milk with more butterfat.

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Agwired

APRIL 29, 2024

Further, the federal PMO prohibits milk from sick cows from entering the food supply chain. Viral fragments detected after pasteurization are nothing more than evidence that the virus is dead; they have zero impact on human health. Milk and milk products produced and processed in the United States are among the safest in the world.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

We’ve known for a very long time that the overuse of antibiotics in animal agriculture is really problematic for public health. the largest volume of antibiotics are used in animal agriculture. Also, the preventive dosing of animals with medically important drugs—that is, drugs for treating humans— is still routine.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 15, 2024

JBS promised to eliminate Amazon deforestation from its supply chain within a few years and cut its emissions by 30 percent by 2030. Concentrated animal agriculture is high in emissions because of things such as improper manure management and land used to grow feed. And then it got sued for it.

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Civil Eats

MAY 22, 2024

However, the overuse of antibiotics in animal agriculture is one activity that has driven the development of dangerous antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Antibiotics are an easy fix, since preventing disease is more effective than treating it, and regular doses of the same drugs speed up growth. In the U.S.,

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Agwired

MAY 6, 2024

trade policy can strengthen supply chain resiliency and ensure that U.S. The update did include a new limit on the amount of added sugar allowed in the milk, a requirement school milk processors have committed to meeting the limit on added sugar. Tony Rice testified before USTR on how U.S. dairy continues to grow as a global leader.

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NASDA

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Additional funding for depopulation equipment is needed to avoid catastrophic supply chain disruption in the event of a Foot-and-mouth disease outbreak. Foreign Animal Disease i. The National Veterinary Stockpile is a critical component of APHIS emergency response capability. livestock industry.

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Vytelle announced a strategic collaboration with Blocktrust Network, an innovative, API driven platform to enhance transparency and efficiency in the beef supply chain. Bovaer reduces methane emissions by 30 percent on average for dairy cows, and thereby lowers the overall greenhouse gas footprint per liter of milk by 10-15 percent.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

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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Agwired

JULY 1, 2024

Department of Agriculture announced new action to support the Biden-Harris Administration’s plan for a fairer, more competitive, and more resilient meat and poultry supply chain. The funding is available through the Fiscal Year 2023-24 Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) budget.

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Agwired

JULY 23, 2024

Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the Biden-Harris Administration is making investments that will strengthen American food supply chains, increase independent meat and poultry processing capacity, create more, new and better markets for producers, and lower food costs.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

This coincided with Russia’s attack on Ukraine, which disrupted fertilizer supply chains. Going forward, he argued, policy conversations should prioritize transitioning away from industrial animal agriculture, which also depends on fertilized corn for feed. In response, the U.S.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Their work tackles a range of food systems issues including food equity, animal agriculture, urbanization, food waste, seafood, and healthy and sustainable diets. Rainforest Alliance , International The Rainforest Alliance works at the intersection of business, agriculture, and forests to create a new standard for business operations.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Farm Sanctuary has recently expanded to advocate for broader changes across the food system, beyond ending animal agriculture. There has always been a recognition that while the beings that we center are farm animals, the interrelated issues caused by factory farming hurt all of us—animals, people, and the planet.

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Food Politics

AUGUST 15, 2023

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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Civil Eats

AUGUST 9, 2023

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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