Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

As a small farmer who formerly worked with communities to resist large corporate farms, she knew a lot about how industrial chicken operations could affect a community. Just three years earlier, Kimbirauskas had gotten wind that Foster Farms was planning to move into her own home of Linn County, Oregon and decided to fight back.

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ATTRA

AUGUST 6, 2024

The Tennessee Department of Agriculture is accepting proposals through the Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure (RFSI) program to build resilience in the middle of the food supply chain, to provide more and better markets to small farms and food businesses and to support the development of value-added products for consumers.

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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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Agwired

JULY 10, 2023

Together with PLC affiliate members the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and the American Sheep Industry Association (ASI), as well as partners from the American Farm Bureau Federation, the comments garnered signatures from 55 state organizations and several additional national partners.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 1, 2023

USDA’s RFSI grant program seeks to build resilience in the middle of the food supply chain, provide more and better markets to small farms and food businesses, and support the development of value-added products for consumers, fair prices, fair wages, and new and safe job opportunities.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 16, 2023

If businesses maintained the status quo, the power asymmetry could prevent efforts to build resilience on small farms at the local level, he said, but, “the opportunity is that. A coalition of farm groups are pushing to get the program written into the upcoming farm bill. Read more: Paraquat, the Deadliest Chemical in U.S.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

feed and pet food manufacturers and actions the AFIA is taking to address them. The Joint Poultry Industry Safety & Health Council is currently accepting applications for the Frank Cruice Innovation in Safety & Health Award. Poultry & Egg Association (USPOULTRY), aims to recognize emerging leaders in the industry.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Everybody seems to have a different reason for eating plant-based foods,” says Kayla Beyer, founder of Deeply Rooted Farms. The plant-based protein manufacturer supplies a pea crumble to schools across the country that replaces ground beef “one for one,” without changing recipes. meat consumption , has jumped sevenfold since 2017.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Gary Huddleston, AFIA’s director of feed manufacturing and regulatory affairs, presented the award to plant manager Tommy Flowers at the AFIA’s Liquid Feed Symposium, held in Louisville, Ky. September 23 and 24, alpaca business owners throughout North America will celebrate the 17th annual National Alpaca Farm Days.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

feed and pet food manufacturers and actions the AFIA is taking to address them. The Joint Poultry Industry Safety & Health Council is currently accepting applications for the Frank Cruice Innovation in Safety & Health Award. Poultry & Egg Association (USPOULTRY), aims to recognize emerging leaders in the industry.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Rifrullo Café, a cozy farm-to-table restaurant in Brookline, Massachusetts, hums with customers on a steamy July mid-morning. The entire manufacturing cycle—from oil and gas drilling to petroleum refining to the production of plastics—creates greenhouse gas emissions. Patrons sip coffee on the shady sidewalk patio.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 26, 2023

His first book A Small Farm Future argues for the importance of locally self-reliant, agrarian communities and agroecological food production. They’re also incubators of flu and related diseases, threatening humans with pandemics far less likely to spread from local mixed farming.[1] Their quality of life is poor. over that period).[2]

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Agwired

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Farm Journal Foundation is launching a new effort to help states develop infrastructure to recruit and support veterinarians working in rural areas, with the aim of addressing the national shortage of veterinarians who specialize in treating poultry and livestock. 10, 2025.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Farm Foundation , an accelerator of practical solutions for agriculture, is pleased to announce the call for nominations for its 2024 annual suite of awards celebrating significant achievements in the agriculture and food sectors. The Association of Equipment Manufacturers honored U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-Mich.), million to $370.9

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Agwired

APRIL 8, 2024

Gary Huddleston, AFIA’s director of feed manufacturing and regulatory affairs, presented the award Wednesday to plant manager Brent Weedman during AFIA’s Purchasing and Ingredient Suppliers Conference in San Antonio. GEA Farm Technologies acquires Northern Ireland-based agricultural software company CattleEye Ltd.,

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Agwired

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This session is titled “Telling Hard Stories That Need to Be Told” moderated by Lisa Moser featuring guest speakers Maddison Caldwell and Jennifer Shike of Farm Journal’s PORK. The Livestock Publications Council will hold its October Coffee and Collaboration on Wednesday, October 18, 2023 at 10 a.m.

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The Equation

MAY 14, 2024

Generically called the “farm” bill, it is actually a farm and food bill that supports a wide range of programs, including ones that cover crop insurance, financial credit, and export subsidies for farmers, as well as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps.

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The Equation

MAY 9, 2024

Those lesser-known companies tend to operate up the supply chain, and include Bayer and Syngenta, which sell the seeds farmers need and the pesticides they’ve come to rely on, and Nutrien and CF Industries Holdings, which manufacture synthetic fertilizers.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Collecting that farm-level data is a critical missing piece in the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) five-year plan , launched in 2019, to improve “antimicrobial stewardship” in animal agriculture, advocates say. Poultry & Egg Association. The data is at the feed mills.

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NASDA

MAY 21, 2024

Dairy Export Council USA Poultry & Egg Export Council USA Rice Wine Institute Wine America Cc: The Honorable Kay Granger, Chair, U.S. Thank you for your consideration of this matter and for supporting the USCO and other critical U.S. government agencies. Apple Association U.S.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 17, 2024

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. It’s the first time that the virus—which has been circulating in wild birds and poultry the U.S. The Bankrollers of Methane.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The front bucket was half full as he drove the tractor forward on a gentle slope of his 10-acre produce and poultry farm in Greensboro, Georgia. The tractor, the most ubiquitous tool on America’s farms, is also the most dangerous. Suddenly, the 53-year-old felt a tire slip under him. “I Rollovers can happen anywhere.

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Agwired

JUNE 11, 2024

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) condemned a Department of Defense (DOD) sponsored research grant that will fund the development of lab-grown meat products by manufacturing company BioMADE. pork, and protecting herd health are the key priorities that NPPC has successfully advocated for within the farm bill.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Over 60 industry professionals gathered for the American Feed Industry Association ’s (AFIA) annual Equipment Manufacturers Conference (EMC), held in Bonita Springs, Fla. The Good Meat® Finder is made possible with support from the ASPCA Fund to End Factory Farming. It’s open to members and non-members.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

To ring in the first day of summer, we at Civil Eats want to offer you a list of food and farming books we think are worth your time and attention. Brazil’s national requirement that 30 percent of school food ingredients be sourced from local and regional family farms helps empower and fund women agroecological producers.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MARCH 20, 2024

Investments made through the 2018 Farm Bill and pandemic aid tested concepts, vetted business viability, and equipped organizations with the knowledge and capacity to effectively manage regional supply chains. However, many of these programs have already spent their allotted funds or will expire by 2025.

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Daily Yonder

JULY 22, 2024

manufacturers of agricultural machinery — and Tyson, the world’s second-largest processor and marketer of poultry, beef and pork products. (Photo by Eric Benson / Investigate Midwest) In Waterloo, a rural city with just under 67,000 residents, 7% of whom are Latino, the main industries include John Deere — one of the leading U.S.

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Agritecture Blog

MAY 4, 2023

“The Biden-Harris Administration is committed to transforming our food system to one that offers new market opportunities to small and mid-sized farming operations through a strengthened local and regional food system,” said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. Interested subaward applicants will apply directly through their state agency.

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Blessings, joel HILLSDALE COLLEGE PARALLEL ECONOMIES—AGRICULTURE Joel Salatin This spring when Russia invaded Ukraine, fertilizer prices increased in some cases 400 percent and global grain shipments sputtered, our farm didn’t feel anything because we don’t buy fertilizer and we don’t buy foreign grain. CHEAP FOOD VERSUS PRECIOUS FOOD.

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NASDA

JANUARY 16, 2025

Rollins spent summers working on her familys farm in Minnesota and participated in all levels of 4-H and FFA. Archery Trade Association Arizona Dairy Producers Trade Association Arkansas Farm Bureau Arkansas Rice Arkansas Soybean Association Associated Milk Producers Inc. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Ralco is proud to announce the acquisition of Sow Magic, a pioneering product developed to address the pressing issue of sow mortality, from O’Bryan Farms in Owensboro, Kentucky. Legacy Feed was created in 2022 as a partnership between Signature Farms, LP and Keystone Cooperative.

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Agwired

AUGUST 20, 2024

The Harris campaign rhetoric unfairly targets the meat and poultry industry and does not match the facts. The 2024 Truterra dairy soils carbon programs reward pre-qualified dairy producers who adopt sustainable farming practices on the crops they use for dairy feed – including silage and alfalfa.

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The Equation

MARCH 6, 2025

And Mexico is also our biggest customer when it comes to agricultural exports , buying billions of dollars of corn, dairy, meat, and poultry. This essential input for the US farming system could be hit the hardest in this trade war. Nitrogen is mainly manufactured in the United States. billion.

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The Equation

MARCH 6, 2025

And Mexico is also our biggest customer when it comes to agricultural exports , buying billions of dollars of corn, dairy, meat, and poultry. This essential input for the US farming system could be hit the hardest in this trade war. Nitrogen is mainly manufactured in the United States. billion.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Often, one member of a farm couple takes an off-farm job primarily for the benefits it provides for the family. The HHS data builds on findings from a report released earlier this year that sliced and diced enrollment data differently, but also pointed to significant positive impacts on farm communities. Kennedy, Jr.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 23, 2025

food system is propped up by low-wage immigrant workers from farm to table. In our meatpacking plants, nearly half of the people who slaughter, cut and package beef, pork and poultry were born elsewhere. In food manufacturing, the number of meatpacking plants that received H-2B workers has also skyrocketed in recent years.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 13, 2025

And many of them find work in hard manufacturing jobs . Read more Farms and Labor Read more Nutrition and Food Access Tchelly Moise is one of those Haitians. In the last four years, President Biden used this executive power to welcome about a million people refugees from Afghanistan, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba, and Haiti.

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