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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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The Shrimp on Your Table Has a Dark History

Civil Eats

Choice Canning, one of Walmart’s suppliers, misrepresented its practices to receive a Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification, as the Ocean Outlaw Project reported. It’s the first time that the virus—which has been circulating in wild birds and poultry the U.S. This is obscured to even a discerning reader of food labels.

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Alltech Releases 2024 Agri-Food Outlook

Agwired

The survey also found a decrease in feed production for 2023 in pigs, dairy, beef, aquaculture and equine feed, with pet and broiler feed higher and feed for layers nearly steady. Nearly half of the world’s global feed production is concentrated in China, the U.S., Brazil and India. Read more from Alltech.

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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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Letter Urging the Opening of Mexico International Rail Crossings

NASDA

Regrettably, we must inform you that Mexico’s livestock and poultry industry is already running low on feed. If the crossings are not immediately reopened, Mexican livestock and poultry producers will need to begin making decisions that could include depopulating animals for humanitarian reasons.

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CFAP 3 Details

Agribusiness Blog

Aid for Livestock and Dairy Producers Contract producers of poultry were mostly left out of the CFAP 1 and 2 since these growers did not own the birds. This bill remedies this by allocating $1 billion of direct aid for any contract grower of livestock (primarily poultry) and will cover up to 80% of losses.

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Op-ed: Pacific Seafood Controls the Dungeness Crab Market, but Small Fishermen Are Fighting Back

Civil Eats

It operates 41 facilities across 11 states and exerts control over every part of the supply chain, from fleets of boats and aquaculture farms, to export shipping and distribution. Where it has truly thrived, however, is in fish, shrimp, and crab processing, and its facilities dominate along the West Coast. The list goes on.