Food Politics

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Diet : Sugar-sweetened beverage consumption is on the rise in developing countries and the global sales of highly processed foods rose from 67.7kg per capita in 2005 to 76.9kg in 2017. Culture: In some developing countries, childhood fatness is associated with health and wealth and consumption of unhealthy foods carries prestige.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 27, 2024

Increasing recycled content in packaging may be good news for the planet, but researchers say the FDA has a lax approval process for plastic food packaging that hasn’t kept pace with the science on chemical hazards in plastics. Companies can seek guidance on their recycling process, but they are not required to.

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Modern Farmer

MARCH 3, 2025

million pilot fund, which was used to test, build, and inform the organizations process for centering the needs of farmers and investing in a more reparative structure of capital. Orzell White’s mechanical weeder. Some are members of BFFs $1.1 Rocky Acres Farm, a member of the Black Farmer Fund. Photography by Onyx Ramirez.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

And the SHG model is one of the most important microfinance mechanisms in India. The fortification process, which boosts the nutritional value of wheat, is carefully designed to help children between the ages of 6 and 36 months , as well as pregnant and lactating women. It is a win-win.

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NASDA

OCTOBER 15, 2024

USMCA, like its predecessor agreement (NAFTA), establish a robust consultative mechanism where federal trade officials receive input directly from state and provincial agricultural leaders. Our trade agreements require constant vigilance to secure these promised benefits.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Harvesting salad greens can be a slow and labor-intensive process. With recent innovations that include the Quick-Cut Greens Harvester and the Baby Greens Harvester (a scaled up option not shown in this video) by Terrateck, small farms can greatly increase the speed and efficiency of their harvest.

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Cropaia

MARCH 28, 2025

Small differences between adjacent zones can result from how the sample was collected or processed, not actual soil differences. If a nutrient map has dozens of tiny polygons each with a different rate, the sprayer or spreader is doing constant changes the risk of mistakes or mechanical issues rises.

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NASDA

MAY 24, 2024

Recent headlines have shown that some heavy metals in the environment can be absorbed by nutritious plants as part of the natural growth process. While this process is intended to focus upon foods commonly consumed by infants and toddlers, we are aware that FDA may expand this effort to consumers of broader age ranges.

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Food Politics

AUGUST 16, 2024

Urban stockyard workers had been unionized since the 1930s; employees of the new rural processing plants were not: they were and are paid much less. 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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NASDA

MAY 9, 2024

State and local food safety agencies frequently collaborate with FDA while conducting food processing, produce, and retail inspections. A consistent and predictable funding mechanism for state and local programs is needed.

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NASDA

MAY 9, 2024

State and local food safety agencies frequently collaborate with FDA while conducting food processing, produce, and retail inspections. A consistent and predictable funding mechanism for state and local programs is needed.

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Food Science Processing Mechanics 130

Cropaia

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Potassium is an essential nutrient for plants, involved in numerous physiological processes that influence water dynamics. This mechanism helps plants retain more water during dry periods, improving overall WUE.

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Food Politics

JULY 3, 2023

Results: Compared to the placebo, Memophenol supplementation was associated with greater improvements in the speed of information processing ( p = 0.020), visuospatial learning ( p = 0.012), and the BRIEF-A global score ( p = 0.046). Funding: This study received funding from Activ’Inside.

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UnderstandingAg

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. Acid rain falling downwind of industrial processes acidifies soils much quicker, as was observed during the 19 th and 20 th centuries.

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Cropaia

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Understanding Constructed Wetlands Constructed wetlands are engineered systems designed to mimic the processes of natural wetlands in treating wastewater. This setup facilitates a series of physical, chemical, and biological processes that collectively remove contaminants from the water.

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NASDA

JUNE 6, 2024

The financial assistance and incentives to producers, both affected and unaffected, that USDA has already outlined through the rulemaking process and unlocked through emergency authority are beneficial. We are encouraged by the CDC continuing to reiterate that the risk to humans overall remains low.

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Food Tank

MARCH 5, 2024

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. Critically, animal feeding studies are not required by the U.S. and Canada.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Flax has been cultivated since ancient Egypt, and in the US since colonial times, when European settlers brought seeds to places such as Philadelphia, where it was mostly hand-processed and spun. At one time, 18,000 acres of flax were grown in Oregon , with 14 processing mills, spinning and weaving throughout the Willamette Valley.

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

By working with producers, retailers, consumers, and public procurement, the town has succeeded in reducing meat and ultra-processed foods and increasing organic, seasonal, and local food consumption. Tucked away in France, a country known for its meat-heavy food, the town of Mouans-Sartoux has been silently turning the tide.

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UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The article, written by Shannon Osaka and Emily Wright, examined research currently being conducted at the University of California-Davis using gene editing techniques on rumen microbes to produce less methane from their digestive processes. Merely extracting these products releases methane and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Philanthropy is committed to supporting landscape stewards and focusing grantmaking on key barriers including policy design, community organizing, direct-to-landscape investment, and identifying other financing mechanisms needed.

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UnderstandingAg

MARCH 10, 2025

Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. This wriggling, or weathering, of nutrients is a never-ending process that resupplies soil with usable nutrients. Old headstones are testament to this process.

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NASDA

OCTOBER 5, 2023

We really work to do a lot of listening here so that we can try to improve processes and improve the way that government works. While Arthur says there are no typical days in her position, the employees in her department work under the united mission to uplift the agriculture industry in ways that best benefit everyone in the state. “A

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OECD: Environment

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Previous analysis by the OECD-IEA Climate Change Expert Group highlights how a well-designed GST that effectively engages countries and other stakeholders, and builds momentum within and beyond the UNFCCC process, can support subsequent action by different actors.

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Jayson Lusk

AUGUST 31, 2023

It isn’t far-fetched to imagine worker illnesses getting to the point that plants have to temporarily shut down on a scale that is at least as large as the August-fire, which removed about 5% of the nation’s beef processing capacity.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 1, 2023

And it reduces the climate and environmental footprint of growing, processing, and transporting industrially farmed animal food. By creating mechanisms that connect farmers, seed providers, trainers, financers, innovators, retailers and other players in the food sector across the world, COP28 can build the momentum for agroecology.

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Cropaia

MARCH 28, 2024

Enhancing Phosphorus Uptake Phosphorus is a critical nutrient for plants, integral to various biological processes including energy transfer, photosynthesis, and cell signaling. This direct transfer mechanism bypasses the soil solution, which can be inefficient due to the binding of phosphate to soil particles.

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ATTRA

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Not only do roots mechanically help to open the soil by pushing their way through the soil, but more importantly they release hundreds of carbon-based compounds like sugars and amino acids, a process known as root exudation. Roots are essential for healthy soil structure to be maintained. Coincidence? I don’t think so.

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Trimble Agriculture

JULY 19, 2023

After the shift to mechanized milking, farmers quickly adopted other technologies, like smart collars, activity trackers, and ear tag sensors. By leveraging this data, AI can provide faster and more accurate risk assessments, making the underwriting process quicker for farmers.

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NASDA

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

NASDA remains concerned that the proposed rule seeks to expand labor organizations’ access and input to the H-2A program in a manner that will be inefficient and potentially undermine the program’s goals and use it entirely as a labor organization mechanism. This damages American competitiveness and overall food and national security.

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Cropaia

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

While plants require only small amounts of molybdenum, its presence is crucial for several enzymatic processes, particularly those involved in nitrogen metabolism. This process is particularly crucial in leguminous crops such as soybeans, peas, and alfalfa, which heavily rely on molybdenum for efficient nitrogen fixation.

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NASDA

MAY 7, 2024

As you begin the fiscal year (FY) 2025 appropriations process, NASDA asks you to prioritize the following programs that enhance farmers, ranchers, and rural communities and ensure a safe, affordable, and abundant food supply. A consistent and predictable funding mechanism for state and local programs is needed.

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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. They harvest and process about 400 whole trout a week, then pack them in coolers for shipping to restaurants and individual customers. Photography via Smoke in Chimneys trout farm.

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

“A lot of what we do both online, but mostly at the grassroots level, is to spend time actually walking people through the process…step by step,” Dalton says. From there, “we watch it in action.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

With three independently operated mechanic crush systems, the AIC will be able to crush organic, non-GMO and GMO soybeans. The “Crushwalk” will also allow visitors to view the processing facility in a safe and bio secure manner. “We The crush plant is only the first phase in this three-phase project.

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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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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Ribbon cutting at Ag Innovation Campus The new Ag Innovation Campus (AIC) in Crookston, Minnesota held its grand opening Thursday, with the goal of providing a platform to deliver new crops and processing technologies from benchtop to commercialization.

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