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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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Coalition Letter Regarding Opportunities for Fairness in Farming Act

NASDA

Specifically, we wish to raise concerns with Amendment #1097 as submitted by Sen. Mike Lee of Utah. The proposed amendment attempts to attach the so-called Opportunities for Fairness in Farming Act (or “OFF Act”), to the spending bill.

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Letter Opposing Spartz Amendment on “Checkoff” Programs

NASDA

4368, the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024. Letter RE: Coalition Urges Opposition to Spartz Amendment (Submitted #113; Rules Print #76) to H.R.

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Industry Ag News 9/22

Agwired

The Association of Equipment Manufacturers honored U.S. is proud to announce the selection of Kirbe Schnoor and Janie Johnson as its new television hosts for FarmHer and RanchHer, two shows returning to primetime on Rural America’s Most Important Network in 2024. Senator Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Senator John Thune (R-S.D.),

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The Shrimp on Your Table Has a Dark History

Civil Eats

He didn’t travel to the rural area for any of his job responsibilities; he was there to document injustice. 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.

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Letter regarding the Spartz Amendment on Checkoff Programs

NASDA

4368, the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024. Chairman, Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, FDA The Honorable Sanford Bishop, Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, FDA The Honorable Glenn “G.T.”

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20 Books Shaping Our View of Food Systems to Read this Winter

Food Tank

Essays touch on the rural communities that have adapted to the growing industry, the role of women in the sector, and how Indonesia fits into the global seaweed market. Good Eats: 32 Writers on Eating Ethically edited by Jennifer Cognard-Black and Melissa A.

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