National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

Editor’s Note: This blog post is the second in a series highlighting how recent supply chain 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.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JUNE 6, 2024

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 supply chain initiatives.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 17, 2024

These findings reflect the shortcomings of corporate social responsibility in bringing meaningful reform to supply chains. shrimp industry, given the lack of transparency and limited testing of imported seafood supply chains. “I If India’s labor standards do not meet the U.S. labor standards, then yes, [the] U.S.

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NASDA

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Press Release INDIANAPOLIS – At today’s National Association of State Departments of Agriculture 2024 Annual Meeting , the Animal Agriculture Policy Committee hosted a panel focusing on recent outbreaks of H5 influenza in poultry and dairy populations and its impacts on “secure” plans for the livestock sector.

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NASDA

AUGUST 23, 2023

The FRIDGE Act would strengthen these programs by adding authority to focus additional efforts on improving food supply chain infrastructure in developing markets, which is essential for expanding and diversifying trade. As organizations involved in the production, processing, storage and distribution of U.S.

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Jayson Lusk

APRIL 3, 2023

Despite the spike in grocery stock-outs that occurred in the wake of COVID19 and the subsequent supply chain disruptions, we still don’t have a good handle on “normal” levels of stock-out rates. This finding was consistent with media reports and rising search engine interest in stock-outs lending credence to the stock-out measure.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It does so by addressing acute issues for processors vital to our supply chain, and by promoting training programs that bolster the resilience of these processors, the farmers they work with, and food access for their communities.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

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 supply chain. farmers, and create jobs in rural areas.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

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 supply chains, 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.”

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NASDA

OCTOBER 3, 2024

As many states face outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in poultry and dairy cattle, it’s important to note that rendering also addresses food safety across the supply chain by safely destroying contaminated animals.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 2, 2023

Some worried about the food supply chain, while others were simply bored. But as any poultry farmer knows, ducklings don’t stay small for long. Finally, as people returned to work after the lockdown restrictions eased, entire flocks of poultry were given up to shelters. Why not start a backyard homestead?

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Agricultural Economics Insights

JUNE 5, 2023

Supply chains, prices, and consumer preferences have been erratic in recent memory. Poultry and Pork Consumption Trends Figure 2 plots the steady increase in poultry consumption over the last six decades. Despite the upward consumption trend, poultry wasn’t immune to the Great Recession dip. Data Source, USDA ERS.

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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. Right now, the market’s operating on a push,” Richards adds.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Part one details USDA’s recent supply chain infrastructure investments and how they have equipped regional processors and distributors. This concentration is better highlighted within poultry purchases. of all USDA’s poultry purchases. Contracts with Tyson Foods accounted for 42.5%

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NASDA

JUNE 6, 2024

State departments of agriculture, like USDA, are dedicated to protecting farmers, farmworkers, and the workforce throughout the entire supply chain. As USDA continues to respond to this outbreak, we urge you to prioritize animal health and human health in the same manner you have dealt with H5N1 in poultry for many years.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The North American Meat Institute (NAMI) is a nonprofit, industry trade association that advocates for and supports more than 350 meat companies responsible for producing over 95 percent of the United States’ output of meat and poultry products.

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Agwired

AUGUST 7, 2023

poultry team. Keith Fleetwood has joined the company as a poultry account manager and feed mill specialist. In that role, he will provide support related to specialty ingredient, nutrition and premix sales for the company’s commercial poultry customers. Alltech announced two additions to its U.S.

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Bushel , an independently-owned software technology company focused on digital tools for the agricultural supply chain, announced an integration into MyCHS, the farmer-facing platform from CHS, Inc., Each year, the Alabama poultry industry produces two fully loaded Nimitz-class aircraft carriers worth of poultry litter, or about 3.6

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Ohio State University

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Ohio State offers resources for farmers, consumers By: Tracy Turner With egg prices soaring due to supply chain disruptions and avian flu impacts, many consumers are looking for ways to stretch their egg supply while ensuring food safety.

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ATTRA

JANUARY 29, 2024

The Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure (RFSI) program in Texas seeks to build resilience across the middle of the state’s food supply chain for food crops. Applications are due by February 15, 2024. The RFSI program will offer $11.5 The RFSI program will offer $11.5

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ATTRA

AUGUST 6, 2024

The Tennessee Department of Agriculture is accepting proposals through the Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure (RFSI) program to build resilience in the middle of the food supply chain, to provide more and better markets to small farms and food businesses and to support the development of value-added products for consumers.

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ATTRA

MAY 24, 2024

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.

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ATTRA

DECEMBER 1, 2023

USDA’s RFSI grant program seeks to build resilience in the middle of the food supply chain, provide more and better markets to small farms and food businesses, and support the development of value-added products for consumers, fair prices, fair wages, and new and safe job opportunities.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Thats according to Transforming the Farmer to Consumer Supply Chain project leaders. Poultry & Egg Association , was released today quantifying the U.S. poultry industrys on-farm antibiotic use. Updated research, supported by the U.S.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

“We were astonished to see the progress, despite 2020 being such a tough year for school nutrition services,” says Nora Stewart, FOE’s California climate friendly school food manager, who led the study, noting the unprecedented challenges in staffing and supply chains during the height of the pandemic.

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Agwired

APRIL 1, 2024

A coalition of meat and poultry industry groups said the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA or the Agency) proposed wastewater guidelines will cost hundreds of millions more than Agency estimates, eliminate tens of thousands of jobs and close many processing facilities, resulting in hardship for livestock and poultry producers.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Edible insects are already being used to feed poultry and farmed fish, but they could also be included in the feed of cattle and pigs. The entirely automated operation used the waste from breweries to feed the bugs; the black soldier flies can be used to boost the protein content in feed for cattle, poultry, pigs, and farmed fish.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 16, 2023

When you approach the poultry paddocks at Salvatierra Farms outside Northfield, Minnesota, you might not notice how many chickens are hiding among the tall grasses and young hazelnut trees at first. Each poultry flock or “unit” includes 1,500 chickens, a barn, and 1.5 And that’s by design.

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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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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Local meat processing facilities, particularly small businesses that work with a relatively low volume of processing, are vital contributors to the food supply chain in many communities across the country. Poultry & Egg Association (USPOULTRY), aims to recognize emerging leaders in the industry. Register here.

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Civil Eats

MAY 22, 2024

At the heart of the issue throughout the industry is an overwhelmingly common poultry disease called coccidiosis, caused by a parasite that is almost universally present in chicken waste. Poultry & Egg Association found a direct link between the move away from antibiotics and rising mortality rates. A 2023 report from the U.S.

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Agwired

JANUARY 29, 2024

International Dairy Foods Association released the first ever State of Women in Dairy report to provide IDFA members and dairy industry with data-based metrics and recommendations to support gender equality across the entire supply chain. Schreiber Foods Inc.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Local meat processing facilities, particularly small businesses that work with a relatively low volume of processing, are vital contributors to the food supply chain in many communities across the country. Poultry & Egg Association (USPOULTRY), aims to recognize emerging leaders in the industry. Register here.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In support of these efforts, USDA has finalized the first in a series of rules under the Packers and Stockyards Act, which is aimed at helping contract poultry growers compete more effectively and better understand the terms of their agreements with major processing companies.

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS): On behalf our nations dairy supply chain, IDFA congratulates Mr. Kennedy on his confirmation as U.S. Charles Beard, former director of the Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory and former vice president of research at USPOULTRY. Poultry & Egg Association (USPOULTRY).

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 20, 2024

Title 4 – Nutrition Takes a different approach to sustaining catalytic local and regional food supply chain investments than the Senate proposal. 5102, 5103, 5019, 5110, 5202, 5503, 5402, 112205 ) Title 6 – Rural Development Includes the Food Supply Chain Guaranteed Loan Program. 2202, 2204, 2302).

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 1, 2024

Builds upon the popular Food Supply Chain Guarantee Program while expanding it to also include grants for essential employee training, food safety training and certification.

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