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Letter to the President on shipping disruptions due to the East and Gulf Coast port strike

NASDA

Grains Council U.S. Apple Association USA Rice U.S. Dairy Export Council US Dry Bean Council U.S. Meat Export Federation U.S.

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Rail Canada Supply Chain Letter

NASDA

Agriculture is particularly exposed to rail stoppages due to robust fertilizer and other agricultural input trade and a sizable livestock industry that depends on rail for the timely delivery of feed grains, dried distillers grains, and further feed ingredients. Canola Association U.S.

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On The Ground: Your Dog’s Food Probably Comes From a Factory Farm. Meet Some Folks Who Want to Change That

Modern Farmer

. “Dog food” is regulated loosely compared to human fare, allowing even meat deemed unfit for human consumption due to things such as disease and contamination and moldy grains , a recipe for endless pet food recalls. Their excrement, frass, is a rich fertilizer for agriculture.

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5 Critical Agriculture Topics to Incorporate Into Any Climate-Related Event

Agritecture Blog

This approach is gaining popularity due to increasing fertilizer and pesticide costs, fragile ecosystems that provide essential water and air quality services, and increased attention for local and regional food systems. However, the long-term potential and total quantity of carbon storage is still very much up for debate.

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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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Ag Transportation Working Group Letter

NASDA

For grain, roughly two-thirds of U.S. The situation has been periodically exacerbated by migrants stopping trains, but the insufficient rail capacity to meet demand has been a persistent issue since late 2023 and seems to be the bigger issue impacting rail service for U.S. agricultural goods in Mexico. agricultural products.

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Letter Urging the Opening of Mexico International Rail Crossings

NASDA

Each day the crossings are closed we estimate almost 1 million bushels of grain exports are potentially lost along with export potential for many other agricultural products. We are aware of grain trains sitting at origin in at least six states that are unable to move, and we expect this number to grow. Dairy Export Council U.S.