Modern Farmer

AUGUST 30, 2024

The ASLF approached McPherson this year to include an aquaculture opportunity. He appreciates the opportunity to share knowledge, since farmed aquaculture is still a very young industry and its connection to and overlap with agriculture is not yet well explored. It also added five urban farms to its roster. Bliss Battle.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 15, 2023

There are currently no policies around farm size or native seed collection in British Columbia. Rapid growth of an industry that gets ahead of market demand could lead to significant waste issues, too, said Anoushka Concepcion, who works in marine aquaculture for NOAA’s Sea Grant program in Connecticut.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 29, 2023

Over time, the administrators hope to expand with aquaculture, waste management, raised-bed gardening and more. The school ran an outdoor hydroponics farm this summer to help work out logistics on the soon-to-be-built indoor vertical farm.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Nayak is recognized for her innovative approach to engaging farmers in demand-driven rice seed systems, from testing and deployment to access and adoption of climate-resilient and nutritious rice varieties. American Seed Trade Association is excited to welcome Martha Malapi as Director, Seed Health & Trade. million to $370.9

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Civil Eats

JULY 31, 2024

Atlantic Sea Farms, the largest seaweed aquaculture business in the country, has solved several challenges that seaweed farmers face in Maine and other states. Obtaining the reliably productive, inexpensive kelp seed for the farm is another. Transportation is one. For Lord, trucking kelp to Portland would be cost- and time-prohibitive.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

“Each seed or spore picked is one not being planted,” says Ray. Still, Ray admits that, financially, it doesn’t often make sense for foragers to sell or for chefs to gather independently, as it’s very time-consuming to gather and harvesters aren’t able to sell it for very much.

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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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Agwired

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The American Seed Trade Association (ASTA) welcomes Katrina Bishop as Senior Director, Strategic Communications. Alltech Coppens, which produces industrial feeds for the aquaculture sector, earned gold-medal status, putting it in the top seven percent of sustainable companies globally.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 3, 2023

These pens are seeded with leafy greens that provide food and a hospitable environment for the development of the snails. 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. 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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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Finding the right location to add nutrients in various contexts (gardening, farming, aquaculture, etc.) You can apply a small amount of readily available nutrients near the seed to kickstart germination.You will usually apply with water. Banding: Apply fertilizer in concentrated strips near the seed row, minimizing nutrient loss.

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Civil Eats

JULY 17, 2024

Here, over the next 45 days, the spores will be carefully cultivated into seed for farmers and scientists to outplant in the ocean. A Market Worth Millions If kelp forests disappear, so would wild-harvested seed for farmed kelp. American farmers can expect to pay about $1 a foot for string inoculated with kelp seed.

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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 The men disembarked, water up to their knees.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Through its Seeds for Resilience project, Crop Trust aims to strengthen national gene banks across sub-Saharan Africa, helping local farmers access diverse, climate-resilient crops. Every seed is important. Theres nothing more meaningful than planting a seed and watching it grow, says Waters.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Global Seafood Alliance , United States The Global Seafood Alliance is the nonprofit behind two certifications helping consumers choose more sustainable seafood: Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) and Best Seafood Practices (BSP). The organization operates their Farmer Training Centre and community seed banks. food culture.

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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. When it comes to groundfish especially, all fisheries policy today is based entirely on the kind of policies [Walmart and the Walton family] peddled about 10-12 years ago.”

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Food Tank

JANUARY 16, 2024

What We Sow: On the Personal, Ecological, and Cultural Significance of Seeds by Jennifer Jewell What We Sow comes from gardener, writer, educator, and advocate Jennifer Jewell, who since 2016 has hosted the award winning radio program and podcast Cultivating Place. What if CAFOs Were History?:

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Civil Eats

JUNE 27, 2024

She points out that most of the shellfish she harvests these days have been seeded manually by the town of Southampton and local universities, “almost like a science project,” she says. When it came time for our [oyster seed] orders to come in, the hatchery said, ‘We had a complete crash. That’s not right.” seaweed industry.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

On the impacts of neonics—the chemicals that coat most corn and soy seeds in this country—especially, her experience illuminates so much. Is it inappropriate, indulgent, myopic to contextualize my understanding of seed writ large with my understanding of self and place?” Jewell asks.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JUNE 14, 2024

Price Loss Coverage and Agricultural Risk Coverage The centerpiece of Chairman Glenn “GT” Thompson’s (R-PA-15) farm bill is an increase in the reference price – or price floor below which a government payment is triggered – by 10-20 percent for commodities covered under PLC, including peanuts, rice, seed, cotton, corn, and soybeans.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 19, 2025

Under President Biden, the USDA became a primary funder , expanding a suite of programs that support regional food systems from seed to processing to plate. Students at a Washington, D.C. public school gather around a salad bar.

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