NASDA

JANUARY 30, 2024

Letter Dear Chairs Smith and Wyden and Ranking Members Neal and Crapo: The undersigned organizations, representing a broad swath of the American agriculture supply chain, urge you to pass a Miscellaneous Tariff Bill (MTB) as soon as possible this year. Choosing not to renew the MTB will lead to economic challenges for U.S.

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NASDA

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This directive should extend to any manufactured product that is still at a registrant’s facilities, in order to prevent disastrous impacts to the supply chain. This court decision was issued days before the 2024 spring planting season, which means farmers have already developed farm plans and purchased seeds and pesticides.

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NASDA

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A global pandemic, record-high inflation, rising supply costs, and global supply chain disruptions have all increased the uncertainty for farmers and ranchers who weather the market conditions to run their businesses. The farm bill ensures a resilient, healthy, and safe food supply and we urge you to act.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 30, 2023

With painful disruptions caused by fluctuating demand, shipping bottlenecks, and labor shortages, supply chains are becoming a new topic of conversation at dinner tables across the country. How does a family shop for food in the age of climate and pandemic crises? Expanding the reach of a more competitive, resilient food system.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

What is the value of seed treatments to U.S. soybean farmers, and how do they feel about alternatives to seed treatments? On average, 90 percent of soybean acres in the ASA/USB survey were planted with treated seeds. Only three percent of respondents had never planted any treated soybean seeds.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Today, Walmart’s public relations efforts combine with the activities of Walton charities and investments in a sprawling buffet of corporate promising, donations, and seed capital directed at a range of social and environmental issues affected by the largest retailer in the world. Some are, in their own right, vast enterprises.

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Department of the Interior announced that it is investing nearly $18 million from the Inflation Reduction Act to advance its new National Seed Strategy Keystone Initiative.

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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

DECEMBER 7, 2023

In 2022, American food and agriculture exports totaled nearly $200 billion, providing jobs and economic opportunity throughout the supply chain in every corner and coast of the country. Agricultural Supply Chain by urging the Administration to develop recommendations to diversify sourcing and/or incentivize cost effective U.S.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 19, 2024

Recently, inflation and supply chain issues have made it even more difficult to maintain operations—particularly at a level that addresses the rising need. It’s a relatively small part of our supply chain in all honesty, but it is one that we 100 percent control.” But those donations can be tenuous.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 8, 2023

In this Modern Farmer feature series, we investigate the wide world of food fraud and fakery—and explore the technology poised to make supply chains more transparent. by Naoki Nitta Cannabis often has a hazy supply chain, but blockchain technology promises seed-to-sale transparency for growers and consumers.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Photo credit: Cornell Watson) Ideally, wed get this sweet corn in the ground today, he says, indicating a bag of organic seed and a nearby half-acre plot of loose brown soil. Isaiah White harvests kale at his familys fifth-generation farm in Warren County, where the U.S.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Black polyethylene “mulch film” gets tucked snugly around crop rows, clear plastic sheeting covers hoop houses, and most farmers use plastic seed trays, irrigation tubes, and fertilizer bags. Mitigation requires slashing production and consumption, he adds, and increasing recycling and reuse all along the supply chain.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 7, 2023

L-R: Dan Basse, Eric Boeck, Tom Schuler, Jagresh Rana, Tim Glenn Representatives from the seed industry’s four largest companies sat down with Ag Resource Company’s Dan Basse at the American Seed Trade Association Field Crop Seed Convention Tuesday to discuss what the future of the seed industry may hold.

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Modern Farmer

JUNE 27, 2024

Waves of Grain also hopes to supplement some of the supply chain aspects of a farmer’s job, so the farmers can focus more on farming. A large weed seed bank caused problems in past years, such as the bindweed that consistently outcompetes crops. Their “view is a 36-inch bubble,” says Clifford.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Building a supply chain for invasives Plants and animals are considered invasive if they are non-native to an area and if their presence causes harm to the environment, health of local populations, or to the local economy. This opened up a supply chain and made the restaurant the first in Connecticut to use the crabs regularly. “In

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

What they need is a supply chain and market that can handle the harvest. 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. Farmers can grow flax for fiber or flax for seeds.

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ATTRA

JUNE 10, 2024

The Minnesota Department of Agriculture is accepting applications for grants up to $45,000 to develop enterprises, supply chains, 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.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Since kava reproduces only through cuttings, not seeds, Johnstons work has been vital to preserving Hawaiis 13 known cultivars. Aggregators and marketers tend to dominate supply chains, however, siphoning revenue and squeezing out small-scale growers. Still, U.H,s per pound of cherries.

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NASDA

OCTOBER 5, 2023

And we’re really working on expanding that awareness, but also building up that supply chain at the same time to make sure that that’s an easy path for those smaller and medium sized producers to have access to both the domestic and international markets for all their products.”

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Agwired

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Join the American Seed Trade Association (ASTA) and more than 2,000 seed industry professionals from over 30 countries, Dec. 5-8, for the new Field Crop Seed Convention, now bigger and better than ever in its new home city of Orlando. RiceTec announced its new SQUAD seed treatment line with its 2024 rice seed offerings.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

With all the challenges restaurants have faced in the past five years—COVID, inflation, price gouging—the impact of climate change on their supply chains has often been overlooked. And there’s mustard: Prices skyrocketed in 2021 due to a severe drought in Canada, the world’s largest producer of brown mustard seeds.

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NASDA

JULY 10, 2023

American food and agriculture exports are a vital component of the American economy, totaling nearly $200 billion in 2022, and providing jobs and economic opportunity in rural communities and throughout the supply chain in every corner of the country. priorities. Thank you in advance for your consideration.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 10, 2024

” From neat bins, glass jars, and metal canisters, the certified B-Corp offers more than 500 refillable bulk goods including snacks, seeds and nuts, coffee and tea, oils and vinegars, cereals and grains, household items, and bath and body products. I think it could happen here.”

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Agwired

MARCH 19, 2024

ZeaKal created the NewType model in 2022 to restore value across the soy supply chain. PhotoSeed corn follows that model’s success by expanding its partnership with Gro Alliance’s extensive germplasm collection, breeding program, and fully integrated seed production.

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NASDA

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Throughout the life of the current farm bill, producers across the country have experienced powerful headwinds, ranging from extreme weather to high input costs to uncertain global demand to supply chain disruptions. Farmers are struggling, and the decline in the farm economy is real. Estimated 2024 net farm income for U.S.

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World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 28, 2025

Platypus transforms the pest control industry with a unique material, providing economical, effective, and sustainable solutions across the agri-food supply chain. Ripelocker predicts and control outcomes of stored perishables to improve quality, extend shelf life, suppress decay, and reduce supply chain loss.

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Caff

DECEMBER 23, 2021

But while the world watched as engineers scrambled to remove this gargantuan threat to a multi-billion dollar supply chain, CAFF was back home planting seeds for local resilience. While the plight of that oversized boat and its 20,000 shipping containers did finally come to an end, our country’s supply chain woes have not.

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Cropaia

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Such risks include pests, diseases, fluctuating market prices, and supply chain disruptions and more. These digital financial services empower farmers by providing them with the resources they need to invest in improved seeds, irrigation systems, and other risk-reducing technologies.

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ATTRA

MARCH 20, 2024

These cost-share grants, which match up to $25,000 per project, were created to assist Iowa farmers, businesses, and nonprofits in increasing or diversifying their agricultural product offerings, expanding markets, and shortening supply chains. A complete list of recipients is available online.

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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

AUGUST 2, 2023

Renovo Seed will enter the seed market in October 2023, offering farmers, ranchers, and landowners across the U.S. a diverse seed portfolio focused on maximizing profitability and long-term land resiliency.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The silver lining of COVID is that everyone is way more focused on supply chain security, she told me. It had giant combines, chemicals stored in one-ton plastic tanks, and a 12-row planter drilling rice seeds into a field by an oxbow lake. But this farm is different: It produces rice seeds.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Siewicki also seeds his pasture with annual grains to allow livestock to graze on them, which he says helps to offset the carbon emissions found in the normal feed supply chain. All of its birds are rotationally grazed, which can help sequester extra carbon and support the longevity of the soil.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 4, 2023

But the varieties now springing up in places that have long been dominated by corn, wheat and soybeans aren’t meant to be used for seed. Photo: Zoe Schaeffer) Yet truly sustainable linen will be expensive, at least early on, when the supply chains are still getting up to speed.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 15, 2024

Small footprint, big potential “Microgreens” is a term used to describe the tender, edible seedlings of various herbs, vegetables and grains typically seeded in shallow, soil-filled trays, grown under natural or artificial light, then harvested within two weeks of germination. Photography submitted by Don DiLillo, Finest Foods.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 13, 2023

From 2014 to 2021, Minnesota farmer James Wolf raised organic soybeans, corn and wheat, selling the grains to farmers across the midwest, both for seed and animal feed. The state claims that the “organic” seed Wolf was selling was not, in fact, organic. How much seed did you purchase? In May, Wolf pleaded guilty to the charges.

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