Farmbrite

DECEMBER 12, 2024

This shift to a data-driven approach not only enhances farm operations but can significantly improve harvest outcomes, turning a good year into an exceptional one. They can use climate gauges and weather information for more accurate planting and harvesting insights.

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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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Agwired

APRIL 2, 2025

ACRPC is launching a nationwide campaign highlighting AF36s success and urgency during the critical pre-harvest period to further extend the reach of this vital information. ACRPC Director Mark Killian, former head of the Arizona Department of Agriculture, emphasized the significance of AF36 in protecting Arizonas food supply and economy.

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DTN

JULY 9, 2024

As harvest season approaches, grain traders face unique challenges. Ever-evolving global markets, unpredictable weather patterns, and fluctuating supply chains have created a complex environment that demands expertise and adaptability. Resilient Supply Chains A key challenge facing grain traders involves supply chains.

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Agwired

JULY 12, 2023

soybean growers, with the goal of creating higher value, more diversified and sustainable global soybean supply chain. And in 2022 ZeaKal entered into a multi-year collaborative agreement with Perdue AgriBusiness , agreeing to purchase future PhotoSeed soybean harvest from growers.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Bushel , an independently-owned software technology company for the agricultural supply chain, announced a new feature in Bushel Wallet that allows verified farmers and agribusinesses to invite their trusted partners into Bushel’s digital payment network for fast and secure payments.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Isaiah White harvests kale at his familys fifth-generation farm in Warren County, where the U.S. When he was nine, he started trucking the tobacco, or driving the loaded tractor from the fields where the hands were harvesting the leaves up to the barns where they were flue cured. Across the road, peacocks shriek. They must be pets?

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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. A healthier system more reflective of the diversity of U.S.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Sampling Kava Safely The Hawaii Department of Health recommends these guidelines when trying kava: Choose Noble Strains: Always look for kava harvested from noble cultivarsHawaiian kava is inherently nobleas these are the only strains designated as GRAS. Harvesting awa requires leaving the corm and lateral roots intact. Still, U.H,s

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Far Eastern Agriculture

APRIL 23, 2024

The tool—which can be used for all crops, particularly fruits, vegetables and tree nuts—is capable of estimating the surplus left behind in-field post-harvest and at further stages across a farm’s operations. and aims to halve global food loss and waste by 2030.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The small, invasive shore crabs are easy to find—they like to hang out in tidal marshes, alongside rocky shores, and on sand flats, but finding fishermen and seafood harvesters willing to catch the crabs for human consumption is a challenge. “The demand is huge; the problem is a consistent supply,” says Hale.

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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. We can harvest 100 units of fresh produce on a Wednesday and, by Saturday, it is gone,” says Ebbs.

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AGRIVI

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The food traceability technology market is fundamental to improving food safety, providing a method of tracking, tracing, and documenting the journey of food items through the supply chain. Long and complex supply chains lead to a lack of visibility which presents more risks of food-borne illnesses, such as E.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

In 1944, International Harvester tested the first mechanical cotton picker on a plantation just south of Clarksdale, Mississippi. Over the next two decades, tractors, mechanical harvesters, and chemical herbicides made sharecropping obsoleteyou no longer needed much labor to farm cotton or grains. I could sell peas all day, he said.

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Western FarmPress

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Ag Marketing IQ: Signals – whether from the Fed, USDA, harvest, basis or supply chain events – add conflict as traders search for trends in chaotic times.

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NASDA

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The nature of agricultural employment often includes narrow windows for things like fresh produce harvest or other labor-intensive work. American agriculture continues to face a critical shortage of labor that impacts annual harvests, animal agriculture production, and processing facilities throughout the entire supply chain.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Dispensaries may charge a premium for heritage strains or sun-grown, organic weed, but a hazy supply chain can obscure a lot between seed and sale. An open ledger With supply chains becoming ever more complex, tracking the source and path of agricultural products is essential to food safety and quality.

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The Equation

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Food and farm workers touch every part of our food system: they plant and harvest crops, process meat and poultry, conduct food safety inspections, stock shelves in warehouses and grocery stores, and cook and serve food in restaurants. There are more than 21 million of these workers, and they make up 10.4 percent of the US workforce.

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Modern Farmer

JUNE 21, 2024

A new report from the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization, or FAO, has found that more fish were farmed worldwide in 2022 than harvested from the wild, an apparent first. For example, poorly managed fisheries can harvest fish more quickly than wild populations can breed, a phenomenon known as overfishing.

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Trimble Agriculture

APRIL 23, 2024

Price Volatility Agricultural commodities do not have stable prices and often fluctuate as supply and demand changes. When prices soar due to factors like high transportation costs, drought, or supply chain issues, consumers may stay away from expensive products, leading to a drop in demand.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 17, 2024

Farinella’s whistleblower account coincides with a three-year investigation, “ Hidden Harvest ,” published in March by the Corporate Accountability Lab (CAL), exposing the human rights abuses rampant across India’s shrimp sector. wild shrimp harvesters have been calling to curb imported shrimp, which undermines their shrinking industry.

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AGRIVI

JULY 13, 2023

Given the industry’s dependence on agriculture, it is crucial for F&B companies to actively support farmers within their supply chain in their transition towards more sustainable practices.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 29, 2023

His vision has gotten a jump start through a partnership with Carbon Harvest. As part of a $20 million project led by the Kentucky-based nonprofit Accelerating Appalachia , Carbon Harvest will receive roughly $200,000 over two years to conduct research on the potential for a regional offset market.

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Agwired

MARCH 27, 2025

New data from the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service is beginning to shed light on the impact of beef and dairy crossbred cattle on the beef supply chain. pork harvesting and cold storage facilities eligible to export to China.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 4, 2024

According to the bill , supply chain disruptions, extreme weather, pests and disease, labor shortages, and inflationary pressures are threatening the U.S. domestic fresh food supply. Innovative farming technologies have the potential to increase U.S.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

When Otto began fishing in the 1960s, there were thousands of independent small-scale fishers harvesting seafood along B.C.’s Over time, changes in government regulations have allowed massive factory ships owned by large corporations to gobble up fish, which increased the length of the supply chain. Or, in this case, a CSF.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Heidi Barr and Emma De Long, the co-founders of the PA Flax Project, harvest flax at Kneehigh Farm in 2020. Photo: Zoe Schaeffer) Yet truly sustainable linen will be expensive, at least early on, when the supply chains are still getting up to speed. “People who are working in textiles want [linen],” says Barr.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

But it is no longer simply a proposal: This shift is already underway among many of the communities that catch, grow, and harvest the worlds food supply, from Brazil to India to the United States. That means that when harvests decline with nighttime fishing, their margins are even smaller. Photography via Shutterstock.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 3, 2024

Then, in 2015, they were mandated to put more traps on each buoy to reduce the number of end lines, or individual points of harvest, in the water. Making these changes was costly and time-consuming for lobster harvesters. By 2020, Maine lobsterers had to ensure their gear was labeled in case of a whale entanglement.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Recently harvested cacao pods collected in a sack, ready to be carried to the village for fermenting. If their supply chain and production processes check off all the above boxes, shouldn’t they, too, have the right to slap the “ceremonial” sticker onto their bars? A local farmer carrying his cacao harvest home on a local road.

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ATTRA

JUNE 10, 2024

The Minnesota Department of Agriculture is accepting applications for grants up to $45,000 to develop enterprises, supply chains, and markets for continuous living cover crops and cropping systems in the early stage of commercial development. Applications must be received by July 15, 2024.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 4, 2024

By ensuring reliable demand for regeneratively raised meat, proponents of the system’s new procurement pledge see the sizable volume giving the state’s independent ranchers and rural economy a huge boost, and bolstering the local and regional meat supply chain. herding around 50 heads.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 18, 2023

We will harvest them every week until the growth picks back up in February.” “After COVID, there was a big push for more super high-tech greenhouses where they grow tomatoes, peppers, and even strawberries, but no one was talking about lower-tech greenhouses growing greens that are super hardy.” But is it economically viable?

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

This program will equip small- and mid-sized farm and food businesses with funding to develop and amplify regional supply chains. Track 1 will back the purchase of special-purpose equipment for post-harvest activities, from processing to market.

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NASDA

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

American agriculture continues to face a critical shortage of labor that impacts annual harvests, animal agriculture production, and processing facilities throughout the entire supply chain. This damages American competitiveness and overall food and national security. gross domestic product in 2021, a 5.4%

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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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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 31, 2023

Most eastern farmers’ fields were obliterated ; the storm came right before peak harvest season for tobacco, corn and cotton. She explains that, particularly in states that are responsible for producing large amounts of a staple crop, flooding can result in supply chain collapses.

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