Food Politics

JANUARY 26, 2024

Food systems are all the people, places, and practices that contribute to the production, capture or harvest, processing, distribution, retail, consumption, and disposal of food. For one thing, it defines Food Systems; By definition, food systems are complicated.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 19, 2024

Instead, it’s brimming with in-season fruits and vegetables that were harvested less than 25 miles away. Photography courtesy of Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County. At Harvest Solutions Farm in Irvine, fresh produce is grown specifically to be distributed to Second Harvest’s partners such as the school pantry.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 7, 2025

Seed Savers Exchange , Southern Exposure Seed Exchange , Ujamaa Seeds , and Truelove Seeds are a few high-integrity organizations that distribute nationwide. Harvest food thats already growing, but not getting utilized, and get this nourishing, local produce to the people who need it the most.

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AgWeb Farm Journal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Built to maximize harvest yield potential on terraces or hills, Geringhoff Distribution launches the Folding AFT (Adaptive Flex Technology) corn head.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

In 2020, modern varieties bred by CGIAR or developed by other institutions using CGIAR germplasm were sown on about 190 M ha, about 26% of the total harvested area of these crops in developing countries, and 43% of the total area sown with modern varieties for these crops in developing countries.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 1, 2024

But the discrepancy is by design, says Joshua Stoll, associate professor at the University of Maine and founder of Local Catch Network , a hub of seafood harvesters, businesses, researchers, and organizers that supports the growth of community-based seafood. We also need federal investment in processing and distribution.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 29, 2024

Across the Phoenix metro area, citrus trees sag under the weight of more produce than homeowners can harvest and use. And Chevallier quickly discovered that homeowners are more than happy to let someone take the surplus off their hands , especially when they know it’s being distributed to local residents in need.

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Agricultural Economics Insights

AUGUST 7, 2023

harvested an estimated 340,000 acres of sweet corn – or just 0.5% of the area harvested for feed grain corn. Distribution of U.S. In 2017, 56% of all sweet corn acres harvested were for processed corn, edging out the fresh market production. Distribution of Processed U.S. Declining Acreage In 2022, the U.S.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 26, 2024

Choctaw Tribal Members Choctaw Fresh Tomika Bell (Choctaw Fresh Produce distribution manager): As Native Americans, we live in rural areas, which means we don’t have the ability to be near any kind of grocery stores or farm stands. We started out paying them $8 an hour and have been able to find the funding to increase that to $12.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Despite krill’s remote concentration in the Southern Ocean, the commercial desirability for harvesting krill is high. Yet a study from CCAMLR finds that even with precautionary quota systems and protective zones, harvesting Antarctic krill has an outsized impact on predators further up the food chain.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 26, 2024

Choctaw Tribal Members Choctaw Fresh Tomika Bell (Choctaw Fresh Produce distribution manager): As Native Americans, we live in rural areas, which means we don’t have the ability to be near any kind of grocery stores or farm stands. We started out paying them $8 an hour and have been able to find the funding to increase that to $12.

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Caff

MARCH 11, 2025

Over 20 million dollars spent on fresh food, equaling roughly 18 million meals distributed to people in need across the state. Food is often grown with specific markets and seasons in mind, with harvesting taking place daysor even hoursbefore washing and delivery. the program was restored. The result of this collaboration?

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

In the produce section of the IGA grocery store in Saint-Laurent, Quebec , a TV monitor shows customers, in real time, the roof of the store and farmers harvesting cucumbers that within an hour will be on store shelves. Retail distribution systems are designed to deliver products in as few trips as possible.

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World Agri-Tech

JUNE 13, 2023

Licensing distribution of its liquid nano technology outside of the United States , Nano-Yield™ has signed a technology transfer agreement with Shriram Farm Solutions (A Unit of DCM Shriram Ltd.). There is also an expectation that the product will quickly be used to enhance and improve growing and harvesting of table grapes and bananas too.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 22, 2024

Island Creek is a vertically integrated oyster operation, meaning it both farms and distributes its own oysters. Sherman is no stranger himself to the environmental and economic challenges of running an aquaculture business. But he’s still intent on turning the tides of the canning industry.

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Farmbrite

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

By sharing your harvest, you can strengthen ties with your local community, CSA members, businesses, and local organizations. It's important to know about their specific needs, donation guidelines, and how they distribute donated food. Coordinate Harvest and Collection: Plan for an efficient harvest and collection process.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

“We have a lot of middle class and rich people here, but at the same time, in the same space, we have a lot of poverty,” Hans Christian Temp, son of Hans Dieter Temp and Manager of Investor Relations and Distribution at Cities without Hunger Brazil tells Food Tank. The kids love to plant and harvest,” Christian Temp tells Food Tank. “It

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Caff

MARCH 11, 2025

Over 20 million dollars spent on fresh food, equaling roughly 18 million meals distributed to people in need across the state. Food is often grown with specific markets and seasons in mind, with harvesting taking place daysor even hoursbefore washing and delivery. The result of this collaboration?

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The organization analyzed regional data and found that post-harvest losses were a major issue in her area. To further improve market access, UFarmX hires AgroDealerslocal partners who either buy goods directly from farmers or assist with transporting and distributing products to other markets.

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Civil Eats

MAY 21, 2024

Underpaid pickers don’t show up, and coffee cherries rot on the ground, wasting the harvest. Some harvests last for six months instead of the standard two, and some are shockingly short. Or harvests are compressed into a two-week period, and the coffee mills can’t handle the tsunami of cherries waiting to be processed.

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Trimble Agriculture

APRIL 23, 2024

Labor Cost and Availability In the field, food may go to waste because farmers often lack access to affordable and reliable farm labor for harvesting. “We This has led to a trend of farmers switching from more labor-intensive crops to crops that can be harvested by machine. We can import labor, or we can import our food.”

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

From planting to harvest, farm machinery such as tractors and combines burn diesel fuel to churn out the raw materials for our food system. The freight trucks, locomotives, and inland barges that transport bulk harvested commodity crops and livestock significantly add to agriculture’s CO2 emissions.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Come autumn harvest after a short growing season of about 58 days, Sakari donates most of the yield to regional tribes with distribution assistance from state agencies. They can learn how to grow and harvest traditional foods, make their own recipes in the incubator kitchen, and market and sell their products.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 12, 2023

From breeding and cultivation to testing and delivery, the cannabis blockchain captures a digital snapshot of every major step of production, distribution and sale, locking them into an immutable digital ledger. Legacy growers tend to “really care about the land,” relying on the sun and rich soil to cultivate a single annual harvest.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Image 3: The global distribution of soil acidity and alkalinity is largely related to annual rainfall and its excess over evapotranspiration. Except for the frozen artic regions, the distribution of acid soils (red areas on the map) corresponds quite closely to the distribution of forest vegetation. Urea 46-0-0 1.8

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World Agri-Tech

MAY 30, 2023

Tevel’s autonomous harvesting system was deployed in Unifrutti Chile’s apple orchards from March to May, harvesting several varieties of apples and picking the highest-quality fruit with unparalleled efficiency. Tevel’s robots are powered by A.I, computer vision and machine learning algorithms.

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AGRIVI

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

This data serves as the foundation for calculating the irrigation Return on Investment (ROI) for specific crops, factoring in harvest returns and resource inputs.  AGRIVI also extends its water management capabilities by enabling farmers to manage and automate water distribution across their fields using our Internet of Things (IoT) hardware together (..)

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Food Tank

JANUARY 31, 2024

Once the order window closes on Sunday evening, farmers have until Tuesday afternoon to harvest and collect order requests on their farms before dropping off their product at a local church in Clinton. Their online store is open from Wednesday morning through Sunday evening, allowing consumers to shop across categories or farms.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 26, 2025

It provides detailed information about the bee life cycle, beekeeping tools and equipment, and how bees make honey, with instructions on how to establish a hive, feed your bees, handle harmful Varroa mites , and harvest honey. They send them produce bags every weekright now, I think they distribute to around 1,000 kids.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

APRIL 12, 2024

Purchase Local AZ” program farmer, Mozette Humphreys, poses with a delivery of fresh-harvested produce delivered to a nonprofit partner, with LFPA support. To date, $104 million has been spent strengthening local and regional markets, including the following investments: $9,000,000 in OhioCAN distributed among 164 growers.

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Food Tank

JUNE 14, 2024

As a result, NYC gardeners have been addressing food apartheid themselves for years by turning vacant lots into food production and distribution sites. Many utilize regenerative growing and composting to maintain healthy crop life cycles from seed to harvest and foster healthy soils.

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Agritecture Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Are they distributing into the right market segments?” I've seen several instances where a company will be growing a product for a very small distribution channel. It's challenging to distribute a niche product that doesn't have a strong market demand. Niche products need to be paired with niche market offtake opportunities.

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Food Tank

JANUARY 18, 2024

One hundred and fifty organizations, such as the SEED , the Second Harvest Food Rescue App , and Community FEWD , collected food waste and distributed food. They also worked with the municipality’s health organization to prescribe produce to patients.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 19, 2024

AGCO Corporation , a global leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of agricultural machinery and precision ag technology, celebrated the grand opening of the AGCO Technician Training Center at Parkland College in Champaign, Illinois. Connect with the ag tech and retailer community in Des Moines, the heart of agriculture, for 2.5

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Caff

MAY 25, 2022

Donald owns and operates Sherman Produce, a year-round diversified vegetable farm and produce market distributing throughout Fresno County. Then, we dig into food safety topics like maintaining food safety across multiple farm locations and reducing risks during post-harvest processing.

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Civil Eats

JULY 29, 2024

At the end of May, Samantha Figueroa sat at her desk counting the number of sites where Caroline County Public Schools would distribute free food to children this summer. The team of women who unload boxes, prep meals, preserve vegetables, and package bags of meals to be distributed all summer long in Caroline County.

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

In the first funding round, the Center anticipates distributing around $10 million and making between 180 and 350 awards. 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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