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Part one details USDA’s recent supplychain infrastructure investments and how they have equipped regional processors and distributors. Each year, USDA spends billions purchasing food for schools, food pantries, and community nutrition programs across rural and urban settings. of all USDA’s poultry purchases.
Editor’s Note: This blog post is the second in a series highlighting how recent supplychain investments were unique and pivotal in expanding infrastructure to respond to growing farmer demand, reducing costly wait times, and reaching diversified operations. King’s Poultry Farm in Bradford, Ohio. Photo courtesy of Jeremy Manalo.
The Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2024 (FFNSA, HR 8467 ) offers a number of policy reforms and authorizes new programs that seek to strengthen existing programs and sustain the novel United States Department of Agriculture’s local supplychain initiatives.
He didn’t travel to the rural area for any of his job responsibilities; he was there to document injustice. These findings reflect the shortcomings of corporate social responsibility in bringing meaningful reform to supplychains. It’s the first time that the virus—which has been circulating in wild birds and poultry the U.S.
Consider Lukas Walton, Tom’s cousin, who is using a $2 billion venture capital fund to invest in organic chicken, grass-fed dairy, plant-based supplychains, and ag-tech, while supporting food access and fisheries innovations with his philanthropy. If Walmart does that, it goes against every grain of their corporate culture.”
farmers, and create jobs in rural areas. This marks the final investment in the Meat and Poultry Processing Expansion Program (MPPEP), which has provided 74 awards totaling more than $325 million to expand processing capacity and strengthen the food supplychain.
It does so by addressing acute issues for processors vital to our supplychain, and by promoting training programs that bolster the resilience of these processors, the farmers they work with, and food access for their communities.
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. Right now, the market’s operating on a push,” Richards adds.
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.
NSAC hopes that Congress can ultimately see the wisdom of funding state and tribal soil health programs through RCPP, as proposed in the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act in the Senate. Title 4 – Nutrition Takes a different approach to sustaining catalytic local and regional food supplychain investments than the Senate proposal.
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The production facilities are also producing high protein animal feed and distillers corn oil which goes into poultry feed market or renewable diesel and biodiesel. His research focuses on economic decision-making throughout the food supplychain from agricultural production to consumer demand.
UCS has joined with partner organizations representing farmers, labor, and rural interests to advocate for a food and farm bill that finally offers support and protections to workers. This support crosses party lines, race and gender, level of education, and rural, suburban, and urban communities.
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USPOULTRY will host its annual Poultry Market Intelligence Forum at the 2025 International Production & Processing Expo (IPPE) in Atlanta, Ga. The program will feature economic industry experts offering their insights on the current state of the global poultry industry and their forecasts for 2025. on Wednesday, Jan.
Cattle, hog, poultry and milk prices all increased in 2022. High feed costs, drought and avian influenza limited supplies, and consumer demand generally continued to be strong. in 2022 as farm commodity prices rose, labor and other costs increased, supplychain problems continued, and consumer demand was strong.
is proud to announce the selection of Kirbe Schnoor and Janie Johnson as its new television hosts for FarmHer and RanchHer, two shows returning to primetime on Rural America’s Most Important Network in 2024. RFD-TV , in partnership with FarmHer, Inc., million to $370.9 million, according to University of Florida economists.
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NSAC hopes that Congress continues to see the wisdom of funding state and tribal soil health programs, either as a new stand-alone program as proposed in the Agriculture Resilience Act (ARA) or as part of RCPP as proposed in the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act in the Senate.
In addition, it included increased funds for the Rural Energy for America Program. Pasture-based livestock This title of the bill includes the improvement of animal-raising claims to make them more verifiable and it substantially improves small-scale poultry and meat processing.
Throughout, carbon-footprint bar charts show the multiple emission sources for each food, conveying the impact of an entire supplychain at a glance. Writer and rural policy expert Brian Reisinger’s memoir is thus a rare find. The book goes beyond the problems, too.
Those lesser-known companies tend to operate up the supplychain, 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. Does any of that sound familiar?
NSAC welcomed the pragmatic Senate bill, the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act of 2024 (RPFSA) , as an important step toward completing a bipartisan farm bill reauthorization this year. It also offers a new flexible financial product for food supplychains by expanding the Food SupplyChain Guaranteed Loans to offer complimentary grants.
National FFA Officer Candidates will be attending the International Poultry Expo (IPE), part of the 2025 International Production & Processing Expo (IPPE), as a result of the USPOULTRY Foundation s ongoing initiative to further attract the best and brightest students to the poultry and egg industries.
Editor’s Note: This blog post is the first post in a series highlighting how recent supplychain investments were unique and pivotal in expanding infrastructure to respond to growing farmer demand, reducing costly wait times, and reaching diversified operations.
As processing began to become consolidated both horizontally and vertically, the entire agricultural supplychain became reliant on an industrialized and corporatized food system.
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The bill seeks to sustain the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Local Food Purchase Assistance (LFPA) program, which launched in 2021 as one of USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service’s (AMS) initiatives to transform the food system and build resilient regional supplychains. “If King’s Poultry Farm in Bradford, Ohio.
In addition, USDA also announced a $420 million Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure Program (RFSI) to fund innovative projects designed invest in processing and distribution capacity to build resilience across the middle of the supplychain and strengthen local and regional food systems. territories.
Farmers, media, and rural leaders gathered at Crescent Meats in Cadott to learn more about the Meat and Poultry Processing Expansion Program and the area’s designation as a Rural Partners Network community. We know that when rural people thrive, America thrives, and that’s what we’re about here today.”
This final rule is an important first step that will shed light on the opaque and unfair poultry tournament system to protect contract poultry growers,” said Billy Hackett, NSAC Policy Specialist. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Laura Zaks National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition lzaks@sustainableagriculture.net Tel.
Department of Agriculture announced new action to support the Biden-Harris Administration’s plan for a fairer, more competitive, and more resilient meat and poultrysupplychain. The funding is available through the Fiscal Year 2023-24 Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) budget.
As processing began to become consolidated both horizontally and vertically, the entire agricultural supplychain became reliant on an industrialized and corporatized food system.
This investment, through its focus on regional lending, will bring new avenues of growth to rural and urban communities alike. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Laura Zaks National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition lzaks@sustainableagriculture.net Tel.
Department of Agriculture (USDA) has an array of programs aimed at farmers growing food that supports rural communities and the environment, but its own purchasing has long revolved around sourcing the cheapest foods available. In 2022, the USDA spent more than $60 million on pork and chicken from JBS and its poultry company, Pilgrim’s Pride.
Conservation funds should focus on tried-and-true practices and farmer-led innovation that can be used by small- to mid-scale farmers who make up most of our farms and rural communities. (Sec. 4306) TITLE VI: Rural Development GREEN FLAG Reaffirms commitment to vital rural development initiatives. 6422, 6314, 6410, 6411).
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