Food Tank

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

As the krill fishing industry expands across the aquaculture and pharmaceuticals industry, scientists express concerns that these sectors will decrease krill’s carbon sink capacity and create competition for krill’s natural predators. Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture report.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 22, 2024

It was probably for good reason,” says Chris Sherman, CEO of Island Creek Oysters , an aquaculture business based in Duxbury, Massachusetts. Sherman is no stranger himself to the environmental and economic challenges of running an aquaculture business. The same is true in aquaculture. Photography by Emily Hagen.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 8, 2024

Earthen ponds at Smoke in Chimneys trout farm. This is part of Walker’s annual maintenance routine at Smoke In Chimneys trout farm, which opened in 2019. He’ll spend the day weeding and cleaning, then harvest the remaining fish in the next week or so. Smoke in Chimneys trout farm. The limestone aquifer.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 26, 2024

Alanna Kieffer sautees seaweed on a portable grill just yards from where we had harvested it. Photography by Elena Valeriote Kieffer leads visitors on tours of the Oregon coast, where she harvests and then prepares a meal with wild seaweed and shellfish right on the beach. Harvesting wild mussels.

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Civil Eats

JULY 31, 2024

That day, they’d been out to their four-acre farm and back twice, harvesting a total of 6,300 pounds. Now those bags were ready to be offloaded into a waiting truck and driven 100 miles southwest to their processor, Atlantic Sea Farms (ASF), near Portland, where many of the state’s kelp companies are based. seaweed industry.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

The cattle, which were artificially inseminated by students in the spring, will eventually be harvested at a USDA plant and incorporated into the fine dining menu at the college’s student-run campus restaurant, Capstone Kitchen. million grant for its soon-to-come vertical farming, hydroponics and plant-based culinary arts programs.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 15, 2023

Cruising by on a boat, it’s easy to miss Jake Patryn’s farm, which looks like nothing more than an unassuming row of red and white buoys floating just off the coast of Machias, Maine. A quick taste test proves it true: Their crop is ready to harvest. Seaweed snacks represent just one of the many uses of seaweed.

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NASDA

AUGUST 20, 2024

There are even higher volumes that would be lost during harvest. Agricultural facilities have no viable alternative transportation options to supply Canada’s international customers and the inability to cycle products through the supply chain could limit producers’ ability to deliver harvested crops.

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Food Tank

JUNE 14, 2024

Urban agriculture can take on many different forms including, but not limited to, community gardens, urban farms, greenspaces, bioswales, rain gardens, community composting, beekeeping, and aquaculture. Many utilize regenerative growing and composting to maintain healthy crop life cycles from seed to harvest and foster healthy soils.

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Agritecture Blog

JULY 31, 2023

To develop a farm or to develop a technology, that is the question. As I pondered the topic for this round, I felt drawn to delve into a significant hurdle frequently encountered by vertical farming companies. This time, I aim to offer a fresh perspective on the question: are you a technology company or a farming company? “

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 23, 2023

Credit: Sky Greens Farm. Written by: Dorothy Braun May 23, 2022 Hybrid farms offer a sustainable and innovative approach to agriculture that can help meet the growing demand for food while reducing the environmental impact of farming. Credit: Sky Greens Farm.

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

This program will equip small- and mid-sized farm and food businesses with funding to develop and amplify regional supply chains. Farm and food businesses, including aquaculture and wild-caught fisheries, and qualified nonprofits are eligible to apply. Awards range from $25,000 to $50,000. Awards range from $50,000 to $100,000.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Sprouting deep within the verdant pleats of Oʻahu’s Koʻolau Mountains, Heʻeia stream winds through Kakoʻo ʻOʻiwi , a non-profit organization centered on a six-acre taro farm, before emptying into the wide mouth of Kane‘ohe Bay. mile rock-walled lagoon used for aquaculture.

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Food Tank

JUNE 22, 2024

AlgaeProBANOS wants to help businesses sustainably harvest algae, market it, and sell it to populations. They are planning to sustainably harvest seaweed from the coast of Kvarøy, a Norwegian island to produce a plant-based seafood alternative to other snack foods. One company, Sjy , hopes to sell kelp chips to the public.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 6, 2024

Rather than rely only on farmed fish or wild caught fish that is shipped from ports across the world, Neff tries to work with local food, which can create a bit of uncertainty in the menu. Shellem began foraging five years ago, after many years of harvesting wild shellfish.

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Food Tank

MARCH 8, 2024

Sharma , Center for Health Equity, University of Texas Houston; Patricia Sugui , CJ Selecta; Josh and Rebecca Tickell , filmmakers, Common Ground; Toni Tipton-Martin , best-selling author; Clayton Tucker , rancher; Kate Warren , Devex; Matt Welch , The Farm at Mirasol Springs; and Rick Whitted , U.S.

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Farmbrite

AUGUST 15, 2024

In this blog post, we'll explore what financing looks like for both lenders and agricultural producers and the steps to help you as a farmer find financing and other funding for your farm. Types of Agricultural Financing for Farmers Farm financing comes in various forms to support agricultural operations.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

When Otto began fishing in the 1960s, there were thousands of independent small-scale fishers harvesting seafood along B.C.’s Imported seafood can either mean it was harvested from global waters, or caught in the US, but exported to other countries for processing and then returned to the US. For decades, independent harvesters in B.C.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 12, 2024

million for equipment and infrastructure projects to Nebraska food and farm businesses and other eligible entities including nonprofits, local government entities, tribal governments, schools, and hospitals. The Nebraska Department of Agriculture will work in partnership with the USDA to award $2.5 million.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In Louisiana, the Recirculating Farms Coalition is building innovative hydroponic and aquaponic farms that can sustainably recycle clean water back into the growing operation. And plenty of inspiring efforts to conserve water are crossing national borders, too.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 1, 2023

Harvesting in a spot that’s accessible fewer than 20 days per year, during negative tides, Welcome pulled a long strand of alaria, a golden ruffled kelp, from the riffles. In a more sheltered part of the bay, the Welcomes farm sugar kelp and oysters. It was slippery, al dente, and tasted a little, but not unpleasantly, like blood.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Farm Foundation , an accelerator of practical solutions for agriculture, is pleased to announce the call for nominations for its 2024 annual suite of awards celebrating significant achievements in the agriculture and food sectors. A modest rebound in U.S. The 26th annual Plains Peanut Festival is scheduled for Saturday, Sept.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 3, 2023

more food secure and our farming practices more environmentally friendly , we expect to see both an increase in and a deepening of these conversations. Regenerative Agriculture and Nature-Based Solutions Coffee crops grow alongside other plants in what is known as an Agroforestry approach to farming. Image sourced from Urban Ag News.

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Agritecture Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

High-tech farming operations like Plenty’s require significant funding, often sourced from investors and venture capitalists. Up to that time, indoor farming companies had generally been cobbling together money from whomever they could. A worker inspects plants in one of Plenty’s vertical farms. Credit: Produce Grower.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Since the arrival of European settlers 400 years ago, not a single season has passed without humans harvesting as much as possible from waters that are now increasingly fouled with pollution. Each Cape Cod town has a shellfish constable, who enforces shellfish bylaws and oversees aquaculture projects.) What do we do tomorrow?

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 21, 2024

and sovereign Indigenous nations, and grant unlimited harvests, even from private property. People of the First Light For thousands of years, the Wampanoag —the “People of the First Light”—have harvested fish for food, trade, art, and fertilizer. In 2022, the tribe was awarded an aquaculture grant of $1.1 Not just food.”

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Civil Eats

JUNE 27, 2024

She points out that most of the shellfish she harvests these days have been seeded manually by the town of Southampton and local universities, “almost like a science project,” she says. Volunteers help to hand-harvest the Shinnecock Kelp Farmers 2023-2024 sugar kelp haul on New York’s Shinnecock Bay. seaweed industry. seaweed industry.

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Civil Eats

JULY 17, 2024

A wiry man in his 60s, Lindell has developed relationships with homeowners and researchers across hundreds of miles of New England’s coast so he can access the kelp integral to his work—and, potentially, to the future of seaweed farming in the United States. kelp farming by helping restore wild seaweeds—but also through reducing costs.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

40 Acres & A Mule Project , United States 40 Acres & A Mule seeks to acquire Black-owned farmland to be used to celebrate and preserve the history, food, and stories of Black culture in food and farming. promoting environmentally sound farming practices, and keeping farmers on their land.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The New Fish: The Truth about Farmed Salmon and the Consequences We Can No Longer Ignore by Simen Sætre and Kjetil Østli The New Fish delves into the origins of salmon farming, tracing its expansion from coastal Norway to the United States and the many countries in between.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 17, 2024

Farinella’s whistleblower account coincides with a three-year investigation, “ Hidden Harvest ,” published in March by the Corporate Accountability Lab (CAL), exposing the human rights abuses rampant across India’s shrimp sector. wild shrimp harvesters have been calling to curb imported shrimp, which undermines their shrinking industry.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 17, 2023

He remembers the first time his oyster farm was hit with a tunicate infestation. “We Bio-fouling tunicates have severely affected mussel harvests. In 2008 , tunicates were found in Lake Tashmoo, a protected marine pond with shellfish aquaculture operations located on Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts. Now, we’re diligent.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 3, 2024

Then, in 2015, they were mandated to put more traps on each buoy to reduce the number of end lines, or individual points of harvest, in the water. Making these changes was costly and time-consuming for lobster harvesters. By 2020, Maine lobsterers had to ensure their gear was labeled in case of a whale entanglement.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

But it wasn’t until he became the beverage director at Farm and Fisherman Tavern in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, that he fully combined his passions for ethnobotany and mixology. Later, he tended bar at a restaurant in Santiago where he used fresh ingredients to create seasonal craft cocktails. In “Do I Have to Give Up Chocolate?:

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Food Tank

MAY 17, 2024

There’s no doubt that, all along the food chain, folks work very hard to get ingredients from the farm to our stomachs. Harvesting, processing, transporting, cooking, and serving food can be hard on people’s bodies—and their mental health and well-being. Farmers, ranchers, and farm managers are 1.5 times more likely.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 17, 2024

For all intents and purposes, the commercial harvest was over. He and Chef Prudhomme had supported banning the offshore commercial redfish harvest. Frank Brigsten: He looked me dead in the eye and said, ‘You better get used to serving farm-raised fish.’ Farm-raised Texas redfish. Just like in Texas.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 15, 2023

Assembled in response to new aquaculture sites planned off the coast of California, the gravestones were brought to the offices of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Long Beach, California, in April by activists keen to register their discontent. established aquaculture as a national policy priority.

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