Food Tank

MARCH 8, 2024

A version of this piece was featured in Food Tank’s newsletter, released weekly on Thursdays. We’re reaching out to keep you in the loop on the amazing All Things Food Summit next week in Austin, Texas, as part of the SXSW festival. All day, we’ll serve amazing food—breakfast, lunch, and dinner!—including

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NASDA

AUGUST 20, 2024

A lockout or strike would lead to shutdowns or slowdowns of rail-dependent facilities resulting in harmful consequences for Canadian and American agricultural producers, the agricultural industry, and both domestic and global food security. There are even higher volumes that would be lost during harvest. Canola Association U.S.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Several years of steady investment and scientific breakthroughs have helped it advance, but since 2023, funding has dropped precipitously, and so have retail prices for seaweed-based foods. Seaweed naturally absorbs carbon as it grows, but unless it is harvested, it decomposes and releases carbon back.

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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. Maine is the heart of America’s farmed seaweed industry, supplying half its harvest— well over a million pounds —last season. Then they sell the harvest to ASF, which picks up the kelp on the dock. Transportation is one.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 17, 2024

According to the company’s website , Choice Canning sells shrimp in more than 48,000 retail and food-service locations in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and flew back to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, he was told to “ship it” to the U.S. This is obscured to even a discerning reader of food labels.

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Civil Eats

JULY 17, 2024

Many growers see it as a bottleneck: Propagation from wild-harvested seaweed is costly, lengthy, and ties rural coastal communities to laboratories that are often hours, if not days, away. It also shortens the seaweed growing season, as sorus tissue can only be harvested for a few months of the year. million, a slice of the larger $5.6

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The Northeast Regional Food Business Center is accepting applications for Business Builder sub-awards. 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 with $350,000 or less in annual sales are eligible to apply.

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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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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The small, invasive shore crabs are easy to find—they like to hang out in tidal marshes, alongside rocky shores, and on sand flats, but finding fishermen and seafood harvesters willing to catch the crabs for human consumption is a challenge. That is when his quest to find food-grade green crabs began. And it’s not just crabs.

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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. Shellfish are a traditional food source for the Shinnecock; they were also once the backbone of Long Island’s robust commercial fishing industry.

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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. But here’s where it gets tricky.

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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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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 15, 2023

mile rock-walled lagoon used for aquaculture. Heavy, angry water As a primary food source, kalo holds a reverent place in Native Hawaiian culture, playing a prominent role in its origin story. million—a striking finding for an archipelago that now imports nearly 90 percent of its food while exporting 80 percent of its crops.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Our removal from this primal origin of our food is pushing consumption rates to their limits. These authentic salmon cells are harvested and combined with several plant-based ingredients in order to lend them the flavor, texture and appearance of a traditional salmon filet. A salmon farm in Norway. percent by 2030.

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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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Modern Farmer

JULY 25, 2023

Food systems are so extractive, to use [the term]) ‘ sustainability’ is really complicated,” says Bryan Szeliga, owner of Fishtown Seafood in Philadelphia. For others, it’s about recognizing the labor of the fishermen or utilizing bycatch, fish caught unintentionally when fishing for specific species or sizes of fish. “

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The World Food Prize Foundation announced the selection of Dr. Swati Nayak as the 2023 Recipient of the Norman E. Futures market carries have improved for all three major classes of wheat and the buy basis is widening following a bigger harvest. Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application, Endowed by The Rockefeller Foundation.

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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. Alternative Proteins Mattia Marinello, farm owner and operator, collects snails for harvest. With the passing of the Inflation Reduction Act and the added $20 billion to make the U.S.

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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. Fueling this rise is a surging appetite for seaweed as a food and an ingredient, and the hope that it could play an important role in mitigating climate change.

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Farmbrite

AUGUST 15, 2024

Equipment Loans These loans can be used to purchase new or used farm equipment, such as tractors, harvesters, and irrigation systems Farm Improvement Loans This type of farm loan is for improving or upgrading existing farm structures or systems. They can be less scrutinized by lenders.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

When you harvest oysters, you have to make sure you aren’t crossing over into restricted territory. Shellfish are both culturally and economically significant in coastal communities across the continent, but knowing which waters are legal and safe to harvest can present a significant obstacle. Screenshot of the ShellCast web app.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 15, 2023

A quick taste test proves it true: Their crop is ready to harvest. It may seem quaint compared to the industrial operations that grow most of the world’s food, but outfits like Patryn’s Nautical Farms are poised to skyrocket in number over the next few years. The World Bank said raising this versatile crop in just 5 percent of U.S.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 3, 2023

This fall, Food Tank is recommending 23 books that can broaden and deepen everyone’s understanding of food systems and the power of storytelling. We’ve also included a dystopian novel, Land of Milk and Honey , to imagine a world after food systems collapse and spark motivation to avert such a future.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 11, 2024

If the plan succeeds, it will help rebuild wetlands and traditional food sources for the tribe, once largely excluded from environmental decision-making. Each Cape Cod town has a shellfish constable, who enforces shellfish bylaws and oversees aquaculture projects.) Whats going to happen, four generations from us right here?

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 13, 2023

A version of this piece was featured in Food Tank’s newsletter, released weekly on Thursdays. Next Monday, October 16, is World Food Day. World Food Day occurs annually to celebrate the founding of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). This year’s theme is: Water is Life, Water is Food.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 19, 2023

During the North America World Food Day celebration, food systems advocates gathered to emphasize that water is central to discussions of food and agriculture. The event was co-hosted by Food Tank, the U.N. The speakers say that this has concerning implications for human health and food security.

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Food Tank

JUNE 22, 2024

AlgaeProBANOS wants to help businesses sustainably harvest algae, market it, and sell it to populations. But a study published by European researchers in the journal Foods, suggests that consumers may need to be exposed to algae-based foods to embrace them fully. One company, Sjy , hopes to sell kelp chips to the public.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 23, 2023

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. I am an engineer by training, but also very interested in the problem of food security,” says Ng.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In 2006, NASA scientists said warming sea surface temperatures were also causing a global decline in phytoplankton productivity, a main food source for tunicates and shellfish. Bio-fouling tunicates have severely affected mussel harvests.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Contributing authors: Abigail Buta ,and Jessica Levy , and Elena Seeley The momentum to transform food and agriculture systems has never been more urgentor more inspiring. It connects expertise across disciplines to enhance food security, improve distribution, and position Canada as a leader in agricultural innovation.

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Food Tank

MAY 17, 2024

A version of this piece was featured in Food Tank’s newsletter, released weekly on Thursdays. There’s no doubt that, all along the food chain, folks work very hard to get ingredients from the farm to our stomachs. For some folks, the mental health challenges of working in the food system are life-or-death. times more likely.

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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.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 17, 2024

Today on Sea Change, we dive into these redfish blues with Boyce Upholt, a reporter for the Food & Environment Reporting Network based in New Orleans. Frank Brigsten: The great thing is that it popularized Louisiana food, Boyce: In the wake of Prudhomme’s rising celebrity, the hottest new restaurants, from New York to L.A.

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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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Agribusiness Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

billion to allow USDA to purchase food products and donate it to food banks, etc. Offshore aquaculture producers will receive an additional $300 million of aid. Timber harvesters and hauling businesses will qualify for $200 million of aid.

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