Agric4profits

MARCH 12, 2025

The decision as to whether an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is required, and at what level of detail, is often formalized in a process referred to as Screening. This process ensures that EIA is only applied where necessary, and is typically based on some form of environmental risk assessment.

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Food Tank

JUNE 14, 2024

Urban agriculture can take on many different forms including, but not limited to, community gardens, urban farms, greenspaces, bioswales, rain gardens, community composting, beekeeping, and aquaculture. And they’re regularly left out of the decision-making processes that impact the gardens in which they grow.

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Farm and food businesses, including aquaculture and wild-caught fisheries, and qualified nonprofits are eligible to apply. Track 1 will back the purchase of special-purpose equipment for post-harvest activities, from processing to market. Awards range from $25,000 to $50,000.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 1, 2024

By avoiding middlemen like distributors and processors, direct sales allow harvesters to build relationships with the people eating their fish, mitigate shipping-related climate impacts and costs by keeping what they catch closer to home, and, typically, make more money in the process. Also,] it starts in the water. Who has access to fishing?

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Agwired

JULY 1, 2024

Our customers, whether you’re in pork production, or beef or poultry or aquaculture, we all have the two most important jobs in the world, nourishing the people on our planet and preserving that planet in the process.” The panel was moderated by Hulsebus, and he was joined by Dr. Mark Lyons, president and CEO at Alltech; Dr.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 30, 2024

Learning the art of affinage (the process of aging cheese), herd management like Maffie, or how to properly prune plants to encourage stem growth are experiences that students will “never get by learning in a classroom,” she says. “We The ASLF approached McPherson this year to include an aquaculture opportunity. Charlotte Maffie.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2024

LFPP supports broader infrastructure for regional food systems such as facilities for aggregating, storage, or processing. In encouraging news, the number of farms reporting processed or value-added goods sold increased by 13% from 2017 to 2022 and the value of those goods increased by 42%.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 26, 2024

Regenerative aquaculture is giving back to the environment, rather than just taking from or having a neutral effect on it, and requires no or very minimal inputs to grow food,” explains Kieffer. “Being that seaweed is a less popular food in our culture, a lot of my work with seaweed is teaching people how and why to use it,” says Kieffer.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The paucity of both private and government funding makes it harder for seaweed companies to handle the high cost of farming and processing. California has no permitting process for seaweed farms in state waters , which extend anywhere from 3 to 12 nautical miles from land—an unsurmountable distance for most farmers.

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The purpose of the RFSI Program is to expand capacity and infrastructure 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 value-added food products.

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ATTRA

AUGUST 6, 2024

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 and other row crops for human consumption, aquaculture, and other food products, excluding meat and poultry.

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ATTRA

MAY 24, 2024

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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Civil Eats

JULY 17, 2024

now approaching millions of tons—begins with this process. I don’t know any other agricultural or aquaculture industry where the cost of seed can be as much as 50 percent of the farmer’s revenue.” Scott Lindell checks a seaweed bioreactor in his lab at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. According to the U.N.’s produces less than.01

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Those involved in the aggregation, processing, manufacturing, storing, transporting, wholesaling and distribution of locally and regionally produced food products, including specialty crops, dairy and dairy products, grains for consumption, aquaculture, and other food products, excluding meat and poultry, are eligible to apply for funding.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 12, 2024

This includes activities like gathering, processing, manufacturing, storing, transporting, wholesaling, and distributing locally and regionally produced food, including specialty crops, dairy, grains for eating, aquaculture, and other food products.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 25, 2023

Szeliga says there is simply not enough information on the stock status of cuttlefish, meaning whether they were overfished or not, and consumers will see the country of origin labeling as where it was processed, not where it is actually from. Szeliga has a critical eye for sourcing and wants consumers to be skeptical of labels.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 21, 2024

When he isn’t raking for wild quahog, Pocknett manages the tribe’s shellfish farm, using modern aquaculture practices that are a footnote in the Wampanoags’ millennia-old relationship to the waterways of the Cape. In 2022, the tribe was awarded an aquaculture grant of $1.1

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Civil Eats

APRIL 17, 2024

The report documents how India’s shrimp is farmed and processed by a highly exploited workforce, rife with horrific abuses, including child labor, sexual harassment, debt bondage, and forced labor—to then be sold to many of the largest U.S. grocery retailers , often with a sustainability promise.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 23, 2024

“Depending on how strict the USDA inspector is, it can require the farm and the processing facility to update their HACCP plan just to capture something for us.” It isn’t hard to get something going, but [it] does require investment in the machinery to accomplish the process,” says Arnold.

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Caff

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Originally launched in October 2020, CFAP-2 included new payment options and expanded eligible crops to include row crops, wool, livestock, specialty livestock, dairy, specialty crops, floriculture, nursery crops, aquaculture, broilers, eggs, and tobacco. Since last October, CFAP-2 went through two more changes.

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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 19, 2024

To be thorough and have the best growing season, it's a good idea to take all this into account during the crop planning process. This can slow down the composting process, or in some cases, stop it altogether. (If Finding the right location to add nutrients in various contexts (gardening, farming, aquaculture, etc.)

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Civil Eats

JUNE 27, 2024

At UConn, Yarish established an internationally known Seaweed Marine Biotechnology Laboratory, and tapped to advise the Department of Energy’s current MARINER Program, which has invested $66 million in seaweed aquaculture since 2018. Charles Yarish looks over recently collected kelp with a student in a lab at the Stamford campus in 2013.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 6, 2024

Ordering 50 pounds of swordfish from a distributor is a fairly straightforward process. Rather than rely only on farmed fish or wild caught fish that is shipped from ports across the world, Neff tries to work with local food, which can create a bit of uncertainty in the menu. You’re also limited by the seasonality of the food.

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Farmbrite

AUGUST 15, 2024

Fisheries Finance Program The Fisheries Finance Program (FFP) is a direct government loan program that provides long-term financing for the cost of construction or reconstruction of fishing vessels, fisheries facilities, aquacultural facilities, and individual fishing quota in the Northwest Halibut/Sablefish and Alaskan Crab Fisheries.

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Agritecture Blog

JULY 31, 2023

The complexity of the decision-making process in vertical farming regarding technology development holds considerable impact on budgeting, equipment choices, operational efficacy, and investment opportunities. I can think of some examples in aquaculture, but I am curious if you have any other examples of this in other areas of agriculture.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Imported seafood can either mean it was harvested from global waters, or caught in the US, but exported to other countries for processing and then returned to the US. The fish is processed, frozen and available to Skipper Otto members. It’s also risky relying on imported seafood.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

They have made engagement on “restorative aquaculture” one of their philanthropic planks, funding numerous ventures on both sides of the notebook. That would be a very difficult process to do if we had to investigate the funding of every source, unless it becomes a question or an issue,” she said.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The International Rendering Symposium, held in conjunction with the 2025 International Production & Processing Expo (IPPE) in Atlanta, will discuss the use of rendered products in aquaculture and global trade flows and initiatives of the circular bioeconomy. Updated research, supported by the U.S.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Yesterday, discussions centered on the role of youth in driving climate action in the Global South; how financial, scientific, and policy progress can enable aquaculture and blue food systems; and the need to put farmers first.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 3, 2023

Furthermore, any change to a farmer’s process costs time, money, and carries a level of risk. Some of these solutions include aquaculture to help reduce the amount of wild-captured fish, as well as mushrooms , insects , and algae grown in controlled environments.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 1, 2023

While the North American seaweed industry remains tiny by global standards — 95 percent of farmed seaweed comes from Asia — it is the fastest-growing type of aquaculture in the United States. But the industry is at an inflection point. The credits sell for roughly $250 per ton, said Running Tide. Welcome is excited about seaweed’s potential.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

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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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The towns Harbor Management Committee , with support from the Urban Harbors Institute at the University of Massachusetts Boston, is compiling its second draft of hundreds of pages detailing everything from dock compliance to potential new aquaculture sites, which can help improve water quality over time. What do we do tomorrow?

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 15, 2023

Now, they’re managing a 5-acre sea farm in Englishman Bay and cultivating thousands of pounds of kelp in the process. million to help build a new farm and processing facility. When Patryn and Fogg started Nautical Farms back in 2017, they were lucky to grow a few hundred pounds in a season. Since most U.S.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

But in modern industrial fishing, 20 to 80 percent of fish harvested worldwide is wasted during the harvesting process. Fishing boats throw bycatch fish overboard, but they often do not survive, and processing plants sometimes discard everything besides the filets—from skin and bones to blood and guts.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 27, 2023

[Read more] To Reverse a Troubling Trend, Farmers Are Adding Rocks to Their Fields Across the country, farmers are taking a chance on a new method: adding crushed volcanic rock to fields to improve soil health (and sequester carbon in the process).

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 23, 2023

Their most recent venture into hybridized farming was in 2021 with the launch of the new micro-farming system that combines aquaculture with vertical farming. Developed by Ng, the multi-layer troughs rotate through an A-frame structure via hydraulic and gravitational processes. Credit: Hudson Valley Fisheries.

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