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Nebraska Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure Program

ATTRA

Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure (RFSI) funds will support expanded capacity for food crops for activities that happen post-harvest and prior to the arrival at a retail market. RFSI “Equipment Only” applications will be accepted for purchases between $10,000 and $100,000.

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Industry Ag News 9/22

Agwired

Futures market carries have improved for all three major classes of wheat and the buy basis is widening following a bigger harvest. The larger harvest follows two years of poor production and a historic run of inverted futures markets that sapped profitability for storing wheat. The Association of Equipment Manufacturers honored U.S.

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The Shrimp on Your Table Has a Dark History

Civil Eats

But four months into the job, he decided to come forward as whistleblower, exposing what he says are the deplorable and unsanitary conditions in one of India’s largest shrimp manufacturers. wild shrimp harvesters have been calling to curb imported shrimp, which undermines their shrinking industry. billion shrimp industry.

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Climate savior or ‘Monsanto of the sea’?

Food Environment and Reporting Network

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. A variety of seaweed harvested from the Gulf of Maine, including sugar kelp, sea lettuce, dulse, bladderwrack, and Irish moss.

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Striking a Balance: Are You a Technology Company or a Farming Company?

Agritecture Blog

These companies shoulder less risk, as the system manufacturers bear the development costs. Example: Vertical Harvest, which develops urban vertical farms focused on employing vulnerable communities and integrating proven Dutch CEA technology. These relationships can be especially valuable when VF companies in this camp scale up.