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Cleaner, Greener, Tastier: The Future of Shrimp Farming?

Food Tank

ShrimpVet is a research company working to develop sustainable shrimp farming practices inVietnam. The approach seeks to tackle the industrys environmental, food safety, and economic challenges while providing a replicable model for global shrimp aquaculture. According to the U.N. “We dont gamble, says Tran.

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Coalition Letter Regarding Opportunities for Fairness in Farming Act

NASDA

The proposed amendment attempts to attach the so-called Opportunities for Fairness in Farming Act (or “OFF Act”), to the spending bill. Specifically, we wish to raise concerns with Amendment #1097 as submitted by Sen. Mike Lee of Utah. If enacted, this amendment would substantially undermine our members’ ability to promote U.S.

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Letter Opposing Spartz Amendment on “Checkoff” Programs

NASDA

4368, the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024. Letter RE: Coalition Urges Opposition to Spartz Amendment (Submitted #113; Rules Print #76) to H.R.

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Letter Supporting Rural Veterinary Workforce Act

NASDA

Passage of the bill will also help each state address its needs for public practice veterinarians (food safety, public health, epidemiology, pathology, molecular diagnostics, virology, toxicology, immunology, bacteriology, serology, foreign animal disease preparedness, and livestock infectious diseases).

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Michigan Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure Program

ATTRA

Funds will support expanded capacity for the aggregation, processing, manufacturing, storing, transporting, wholesaling, and distribution of locally and regionally produced food products, including specialty crops, dairy, grains for human consumption, aquaculture, and other food products, excluding meat and poultry.

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Letter regarding the Spartz Amendment on Checkoff Programs

NASDA

4368, the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024. Chairman, Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, FDA The Honorable Sanford Bishop, Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, FDA The Honorable Glenn “G.T.”

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125 Food and Agriculture Organizations to Watch in 2025

Food Tank

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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