NASDA

APRIL 24, 2024

Recommitting to an aggressive trade agenda, holding parties accountable to commitments, and improving trade enforcement mechanisms are critical steps that need to be taken. Export markets are essential for our survival, and comprehensive trade agreements and elimination of tariff and non-tariff barriers help ensure that U.S.

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Global Agtech Initiative

JUNE 27, 2024

The initiative empowers farmers to integrate microbial fertilizers, organic matter, biological pest control, mechanized harvesting, and efficient water use to enhance soil health. The post Biome Makers Partners in Groundbreaking Sugarcane Sustainability Initiative appeared first on Global Ag Tech Initiative.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In fact, some of these immigrants are already among the 30,000 small farmers currently managing agroforestry system on private and public lands in our country, but their operations often lack sufficient capital to mechanize, package and market their crops with sufficient ease.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Among this year’s accomplishments, DWFI launched its new USAID-funded Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Irrigation and Mechanization Systems (ILIMS) providing $40 million over the next five years to support the growth of vibrant irrigation and mechanization markets in the Global South.

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Global Agtech Initiative

AUGUST 21, 2023

A local AgTech start-up is revolutionizing the South Australian agriculture industry by reducing the reliance on pesticides, reports […] The post Australian AgTech Start Up Flux Robotics Developing Precision Sprayer and Mechanical Weeder appeared first on Global Ag Tech Initiative.

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NASDA

OCTOBER 15, 2024

-Mexico-Canada Agreement offers significant opportunities for expanded trade in agricultural products throughout the North American Market, as well as the potential for leveraging North American competitiveness in the global market. Our trade agreements require constant vigilance to secure these promised benefits.

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Food Politics

JULY 21, 2023

Supply-side factors, including globalized technology in food production, transportation and marketing, coupled with an increase in demand for readily available foods, have contributed to a substantial expansion of supermarkets, hypermarkets, food deliveries and other convenience retailers. What is to be done?

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World Agri-Tech

DECEMBER 18, 2024

December 19, 2025 The agri-food technology market is showing signs of recovery after a turbulent period. Products that deliver incremental benefits are most vulnerable, but truly groundbreaking innovations will find a way to market, she explained. VC funding fell 49% in 2024, but the sector is adapting. Pitchbook data revealed that $1.6

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DTN

DECEMBER 2, 2024

As utilities integrate renewable energy sources and adapt to deregulated energy markets, the importance of accurate and actionable weather forecasts has never been greater. Thriving in Deregulated Energy Markets The deregulation of energy markets across Europe has introduced new complexities for utilities.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

flatland of small, half-abandoned towns surrounded by large, mechanized farms. In 1944, International Harvester tested the first mechanical cotton picker on a plantation just south of Clarksdale, Mississippi. As mechanization was driving Black sharecroppers to leave the Delta, Black farmers who owned land were losing it.

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Food Politics

AUGUST 16, 2024

Part of the reason for that is that refrigeration was implemented, for the most part, in order to optimize markets rather than human and environmental health. Those big expensive machines are not expected to last more than a few years, not because of the refrigeration mechanisms but because of the electronics. Well, they used to.

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The Equation

APRIL 18, 2023

Known by many names including Double Up Food Bucks or Market Match , these programs match SNAP funding with additional incentives that double SNAP purchasing power for fruits and vegetables. In other words, SNAP users can get $20 worth of produce at a local market for half the price.

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ATTRA

MARCH 26, 2025

However, mechanization and technology like tractors offer women the chance to broaden their opportunities in agriculture. Mechanizing tasks like bed shaping, planting, and cultivation is game-changing. Mechanizing tasks like bed shaping, planting, and cultivation is game-changing.

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NASDA

JUNE 6, 2024

If USDA APHIS has a mechanism for “clearing” herds, or confirming they are no longer infected with the virus, we request the APHIS website and map be updated to reflect the current number of infected herds, not the overall infected herds over the course of the outbreak.

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Global Agtech Initiative

JUNE 14, 2024

under the Joint Crediting Mechanism of Japan. Boomitra partners with the Mongolian Ministry of Environment and Tourism and Mitsubishi Corp. The post Boomitra and Mongolian Government Sign Agreement to Introduce Regenerative Agriculture and Carbon Finance in Mongolia appeared first on Global Ag Tech Initiative.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 27, 2024

Cadbury chocolate bars come in a wrapper marketed as 30 percent recycled “soft plastic packaging.” Most is recycled mechanically, by sorting, washing, grinding, and re-compounding the material into pellets. FDA’s Lax Approach The FDA must authorize all materials that contact food before they reach the market. The Coca-Cola Co.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The Markets Institute at World Wildlife Fund (WWF) proposed a new framework to support the growing demand for globally traded food while reducing the worst environmental consequences of food production. According to WWF , food production has the largest impact of any human activity on the planet.

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NASDA

MAY 24, 2024

Letter Dear Under Secretary Jacobs-Young: We, the undersigned organizations and associations represent a broad array of food producers, processors, and marketers as well as state departments of agriculture working cooperatively to address the unintentional presence of heavy metals in certain food products.

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NASDA

OCTOBER 5, 2023

She shared that this includes expanding market opportunities for them, not only domestically, but also internationally. Branding Oklahoma products for consumers who are paying more attention to where their food comes from not only supports local farmers, but also stimulates the state’s economy.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Huberto markets coffee, vanilla, and even cedro trees for timber. He says scientists at his university are exploring adaptation mechanisms and how to make the plant more resistant to high temperatures in Veracruz, the place of origin of vanilla. The agroforestry system also provides farmers with the chance to diversify their crops.

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

In the 19702, in the wake of the Bracero immigration program’s end, an economic downturn, market concentration, and new technological development, researchers at the University of California developed an industrial-scaled mechanical tomato harvester, which added fuel to the fire, pushing farmers “to get big or get out”.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

For many farms that offer outside entertainment, visitor numbers are down,” said Claudia Schmidt, assistant professor of marketing and local food systems at Penn State. percent of farms offering both agritourism and direct-to-consumer sales (such as through U-pick, farm stands, and farmers’ markets) were under 100 acres.

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Agritecture Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

I hear this time and time again: “We looked at systems available on the market, but they're very expensive and we think we can do it cheaper.” Oftentimes, companies seeking investment in technology that is at a pretty early stage are unclear how their systems can be integrated with existing automation and mechanization systems.

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Food Tank

MARCH 5, 2024

and Canada want to force Mexico to open its market to all genetically modified foods and seeds. Toxic effects and indications of toxicity have variously been observed in the blood , stomach, small intestine, liver, kidney, spleen, and pancreas, as well as immune responses , though the mechanism is not clear from these studies.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Signees commit to taking action by 2025 to scale up and strengthen mechanisms for resilient food systems, with the goal of reducing environmental impacts and increasing security for those who work in the food system. Read our breakdown of some of the obstacles the carbon credit market faces here. The post Food Was a Focus at COP28.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

million USDA Agricultural Marketing Service Organic Marketing Development Grant (OMDG) to grow flax for linen on 12,000 acres, using a cooperative model where farmers would share in the profits. What they need is a supply chain and market that can handle the harvest. Dunphy is part of the PA Flax Project , founded in 2020.

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Jayson Lusk

AUGUST 31, 2023

One thing that makes me nervous even about temporary closures, if large scale, is the animals that have been placed to be market-weight in the next few weeks. ” The challenge will be identifying institutions and mechanisms by which this sort of economic analysis can have broader influence.

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

These strategies can apply to the market gardener or home gardener, and have applications for larger-scale vegetable production. This is generally accomplished by mechanically removing plants by flail mowing, tillage, cultivation equipment, or by manual labor. It is possible to no-till seed into soil without a no-till seeder.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 8, 2024

Here, there are no electric pumps, plastic tanks, antibiotics, mechanical agitators, recirculated water, chemical additives or computer monitoring. Meanwhile, more farm-raised trout on the market means less extractionary pressure on local streams. Smoke in Chimneys trout farm. And testimonies back up his claims.

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NASDA

MAY 7, 2024

A consistent and predictable funding mechanism for state and local programs is needed. This funding ensures small specialty crop markets have safe and effective agrichemicals and biopesticides. Agricultural Trade NASDA requests at least $200 million for the Market Access Program and $34.5 Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) a.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Instead, it advocates for more capital-intensive automation and mechanization in line with the longstanding “bigger is better” agriculture policy of the past fifty years. Envisioning farming as hyper-specialized, where specializations only converge in a marketable product, misses critical aspects of farming knowledge.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 24, 2023

Two organizations want to put an end to the wild west of claims and prove, through certification, that food labeled regenerative is genuinely the gold standard of sustainability and not just another marketing buzzword. Land to Market frames its products as coming “from land that is regenerating.” But it’s not quite that simple.

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Cropaia

APRIL 7, 2023

In addition to the challenges of measurement and verification, there may be limitations in the market for carbon credits, as well as potential issues with the fairness and equity of carbon pricing mechanisms.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

That legislation stipulated that pork entering California’s markets must originate from animals whose mothers were given a minimum of 24 square feet of space, freeing hogs from gestation crates. These behaviors, marked by repetitive movements, serve as a mechanism to cope with being trapped in cages.

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Trimble Agriculture

JULY 19, 2023

How AI in Agriculture Has Already Changed Us Even before self-driving cars hit the consumer market, farmers were plowing fields with GPS-guided tractors. In the mid-1990s, John Deere began using GPS technology for precision agriculture, combining GPS location data with sensor readings to determine crop yield.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

We understood that this very vital subsidy for food was not available beyond brick and mortar,” Nancy Dalton, the Head of Community Experience and Customer Marketing for Amazon Access, tells Food Tank. But by March of 2020, when governments were advising that everyone stay home, the program was still only available in select states. “We

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Agribusiness Blog

JANUARY 26, 2022

Here are my top two from the list: Labor Market Disruption – In our area it is very common to see signs at the local McDonalds trying to hire help starting at $18 per hour. However, the plane had “mechanical” issues and the flight did not occur. Our firm just released our top ten business trends that occurred in 2021.

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