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Census of Agriculture Reveals the Promise of Regional Food Systems

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

Photo credit: USDA The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has promoted the sale of foods locally for over two decades via business and community investments made by Value-Added Producer Grants , Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Grants , and most recently Regional Food System Partnership grants.

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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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Sustainable marine-based poultry feed alternative receives IUK funding

AgriEpiCenter

A consortium led by sustainable aquaculture innovators Aquanzo Ltd has received funding to investigate the feasibility of farming artemia, a small marine shrimp similar to krill, as an alternative circular […] The post Sustainable marine-based poultry feed alternative receives IUK funding appeared first on Agri-EPI Centre.

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The Shrimp on Your Table Has a Dark History

Civil Eats

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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Tennessee Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure Program

ATTRA

The Tennessee Department of Agriculture is accepting proposals through the Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure (RFSI) program to build resilience in the middle of the food supply chain, to provide more and better markets to small farms and food businesses and to support the development of value-added products for consumers.

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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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Aquanzo explores sustainable marine-based poultry feed alternative

AgriEpiCenter

During this […] The post Aquanzo explores sustainable marine-based poultry feed alternative appeared first on Agri-EPI Centre. Agri-EPI and Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) visited Rastech Research CIC at the University of St Andrews in Scotland for a partner site visit to Aquanzo Production System facilities.

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