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Letter Supporting Rural Veterinary Workforce Act

NASDA

Removing the current tax treatment of these awards will allow more ranchers and farmers in rural America to gain better access to a wide array of veterinary services needed for their livestock and poultry. In that time, NIFA received 2,061 applications from 1,451 unique applicants.

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The Shrimp on Your Table Has a Dark History

Civil Eats

Choice Canning, one of Walmart’s suppliers, misrepresented its practices to receive a Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification, as the Ocean Outlaw Project reported. Some Lawmakers Want to Clean Up the Market Diving—and Dying—for Red Gold: The Human Cost of Honduran Lobster Avian Flu Spreads to Cattle. The Bankrollers of Methane.

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Census of Agriculture Reveals the Promise of Regional Food Systems

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

The largest proportion of farms with direct sales to consumers are producing animal products , including beef cattle ranching, cattle feedlots, dairy and milk, hog and pig, poultry and egg, sheep and goat, and aquaculture farms.

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Animal Ag News 12/9

Agwired

Department of Agricultures (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is announcing the start of its National Milk Testing Strategy (NMTS) , which builds on measures taken by USDA and federal and state partners since the outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 in dairy cattle was first detected in March 2024.

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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.

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CFAP 3 Details

Agribusiness Blog

Aid for Livestock and Dairy Producers Contract producers of poultry were mostly left out of the CFAP 1 and 2 since these growers did not own the birds. This bill remedies this by allocating $1 billion of direct aid for any contract grower of livestock (primarily poultry) and will cover up to 80% of losses. All other cattle – $17.25

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