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Census of Agriculture Reveals the Promise of Regional Food Systems

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

The largest proportion of farms with direct sales to consumers are producing animal products , including beef cattle ranching, cattle feedlots, dairy and milk, hog and pig, poultry and egg, sheep and goat, and aquaculture farms.

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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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USDA Announces Finalists for Twelve New USDA Regional Food Business Centers and $420 Million in Funding to Strengthen Food Supply Chain Infrastructure

Agritecture Blog

This program is funded through the American Rescue Plan and is intended to provide similar support to that provided in other USDA funding for meat and poultry processing, but for the non-meat and poultry sectors. Interested subaward applicants will apply directly through their state agency.