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Letter Dear Prime Minister: Our members represent a broad array of the agricultural supplychain that relies on freight rail transportation from the Canadian National Railway Company (CN) and CPKC, and we write to express concerns regarding a potential significant disruption to the North American supplychains.
Another panel focused on how states and extension are evaluating farms against Subpart E harvest and post-harvest provisions. The attendees experienced the process of tracking tomatoes and lettuce through the supplychain and collecting and sharing data requirements needed for compliance with the rule.
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Harvest Analysis report which shows a combination of heavy early-season rains and late-season droughts has created distinct challenges for crop producers in the United States and indicates an overall moderate to high risk. Global biotech leader Alltech has released its complete 2024 U.S. report, which is available now.
AI and predictive amalytics: Artificial intelligence analyzes historical and real-time data to predict crop health issues, pest outbreaks, or optimal harvest times. Weather integration: Tools with localized weather forecasts and historical data to guide planting and harvesting decisions.
Farmers are having to adjust what they grow and how they grow it, and people all along the food chainfrom the workers who harvest the crops to the consumers who eat themfeel the effects. Droughts, heatwaves, wildfires, hurricanes, and flooding brought on by climate change all have a massive impact on the food system.
soybean growers, with the goal of creating higher value, more diversified and sustainable global soybean supplychain. And in 2022 ZeaKal entered into a multi-year collaborative agreement with Perdue AgriBusiness , agreeing to purchase future PhotoSeed soybean harvest from growers.
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.
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.
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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Bushel , an independently-owned software technology company for the agricultural supplychain, 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.
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.
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?
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 supplychain. Long and complex supplychains lead to a lack of visibility which presents more risks of food-borne illnesses, such as E.
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.
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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Ag Marketing IQ: Signals – whether from the Fed, USDA, harvest, basis or supplychain events – add conflict as traders search for trends in chaotic times.
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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 supplychain issues, consumers may stay away from expensive products, leading to a drop in demand.
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According to the bill , supplychain 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.
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 supplychain. pork harvesting and cold storage facilities eligible to export to China.
American agriculture continues to face a critical shortage of labor that impacts annual harvests, animal agriculture production, and processing facilities throughout the entire supplychain. This damages American competitiveness and overall food and national security. gross domestic product in 2021, a 5.4%
ProducePay, the agtech company on a mission to transform the global agricultural industry into a more predictable, connected and sustainable supplychain, has partnered with MAVRK Capital to fund more Predictable Commerce Programs in fresh produce. Through this partnership, Four Star Fruit, Inc. Read the full press release.
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 supplychain. herding around 50 heads.
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 supplychain collapses.
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.
The Minnesota Department of Agriculture is accepting applications for grants up to $45,000 to develop enterprises, supplychains, 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.
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 supplychains are still getting up to speed. “People who are working in textiles want [linen],” says Barr.
This program will equip small- and mid-sized farm and food businesses with funding to develop and amplify regional supplychains. Track 1 will back the purchase of special-purpose equipment for post-harvest activities, from processing to market.
Anjanette DeCarlo, who serves as chief sustainability scientist at the Aromatic Plant Research Center, where she conducts field research and ecological supplychain analysis on aromatic species. When ingredients are harvested from developing countries, environmental and labor abuses can be myriad.
million in 24 Iowa projects and other supplychain improvement initiatives through USDA’s Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure (RFSI) grant program. The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship is investing more than $5.2 Descriptions of the projects selected for funding are available online.
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 supplychain. Or, in this case, a CSF.
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.
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.
Here, farmers deliver freshly harvested produce to a brick-and-mortar retail shop with a full staff. Photo credit: Paige Hodder) Farm stops operate quite differently from typical mainstream grocery stores like Kroger or Albertson’s, which rely on industrialized food systems and complex supplychains.
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