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| Nov 10, 2024 | The Green Mirage: Unpacking the Regenerative Agriculture Ruse | In the age of climate urgency, the agriculture sector stands at a crossroads. The stakes are high, and the pressure is mounting. Methane emissions, a potent greenhouse gas, are driving climate change. Yet, amidst this crisis, Big Meat and D... |
| Nov 4, 2024 | Regenerative Agriculture: Big Meat & Dairy’s Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card? | 5 Mins Read As climate disasters intensify, Big Meat and Dairy are ramping up efforts to divert attention from their major role in climate change.
Agriculture stands as the largest source of methane emissions – a potent greenhouse gas that ... |
| May 14, 2023 | Commentary
Commentary | Guest opinion: Kathleen Merrigan: These four challenges will shape the next farm bill – and how the U.S. eats | By Kathleen Merrigan
For the 20th time since 1933, Congress is writing a multiyear farm bill that will shape what kind of food U.S. farmers grow, how they raise it and how it gets to consumers. These measures are large, complex and expensiv... |
| Nov 7, 2022 | To eat the burger or to not eat the burger. Climate guilt unpacked. | (BPT) - By Jeff Simmons, President & CEO, Elanco
Climate neutral farms is the end of the meat eater’s dilemma – giving consumers what they want, the planet what it needs, and promoting a healthier livestock population.
The meat counter ... |
| Apr 13, 2022 | We must scale US agtech innovation to fight the looming food, energy crisis | Editor’s note: The following editorial is a joint ‘call to arms’ for the agrifoodtech community. The authors, listed at the end of the article, represent decades of experience in global agribusiness and are now leading efforts to rapidly sc... |
| Jan 27, 2022 | Why AgFunder invested in Kula Bio | Editor’s Note: Rob Leclerc is a founding partner at AgFunder, AFN’s parent company that invested in biofertilizer startup Kula Bio’s seed round last year. In the wake of Kula Bio’s $50 million Series A round led by LowerCarbon, Rob Leclerc ... |
| Jan 14, 2022 | U.S. Food Prices Are Up. Are the Food Corporations to Blame for Taking Advantage? | 2021 was a bad year for grocery bills. Shoppers paid 6.4% more for groceries in November 2021 compared to November 2020, according to the consumer price index. All food prices were up a bit more than usual but the most dramatic price increa... |
| Jan 6, 2022 | Meet the 4 meat empires Biden says are unreasonably jacking up prices for Americans | Never miss a story: Follow your favorite topics and authors to get a personalized email with the journalism that matters most to you.
President Joe Biden announced plans this week for new rules and $1 billion in funding for independent meat... |
| Jul 20, 2021 | Circumventing Covid-19 with better ventilation and air quality | Gathering outdoors has provided people a safer alternative to meeting inside during the Covid-19 pandemic. But for those who spend their days in crowded indoor spaces — workers in office buildings and industrial facilities, students in scho... |
| Apr 8, 2021 | Future Food News Review Podcast: Is cultured meat delicious? Should hydroponically-grown food be organic? | A couple of weeks ago we hosted our second Future Food News Review on Clubhouse with leading journalists reporting on the front lines of the foodtech, agtech and food systems revolution. (Read about the first edition here.)
Join us for the ... |
| Mar 24, 2021 | Introducing Future Food News Review – join us! | Two weeks ago, we launched our new partnership with Danielle Gould from Food+Tech Connect on Clubhouse. Since then we’ve hosted several rooms including:
Reimagining Restaurants with US salad chain sweetgreen about their plans to go carbon n... |
| Mar 3, 2021 | Positive Ag Cycle Brings Cash. Can It Also Bring New Social Impact To Ag Tech? | Bright days are here for agriculture, as commodity prices soar. Can we apply some of returns to ... [+] feeding the hungry?Adobe Stock |
| Jan 25, 2021 | From The Bronx To Bessemer, Essential Workers Are Fighting Back | RWDSU protest in New York City in 2018. (Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)LightRocket via Getty Images |
| Jan 15, 2021 | FDA and USDA Spar Over Genetically-Engineered Animals | The USDA is making a push as the regulating agency for genetically engineered hots.getty |
| Dec 18, 2020 | Farmers Are Getting Help With Assistance From The Wounded Warrior Project | Wounded veterans have found solace in farmingSusanna Frohman |
| Nov 24, 2020 | OSHA’s ‘absurd reinterpretation’ of a regulation regarding workers and Covid-19 | Workplace exposures continue to be a major driver of the coronavirus pandemic, something that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) should be on top of. But a reinterpretation of a reporting rule is making that all but im... |
| Jul 30, 2020 | Meat Shortages Show Need For Federal Slaughterhouse Reform | When the coronavirus began to ravage the nation’s slaughterhouses, beef and pork production plummeted by more than 30%, triggering meat shortages and barren store shelves. To prevent future shortages, Congress is currently considering the P... |
| Apr 23, 2020 | Tyson Foods closes another meat plant indefinitely due to coronavirus | Sign up for our daily briefingMake your busy days simpler with Axios AM/PM. Catch up on what's new and why it matters in just 5 minutes.
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| Dec 9, 2019 | Gulf of Mexico red snapper fishery coming under more permanent state control | A pilot program that gave five U.S. states bordering the Gulf of Mexico greater control over their quotas for the Gulf red snapper fishery is in the process of being made permanent, signaling a willingness from NOAA Fisheries to embrace mor... |
| Jul 12, 2018 | Some food stamp recipients may soon lose access to farmers market benefits | Washington —
On Saturday morning, Ludy Arnold arrived at the H Street farmers market in Northeast Washington just minutes after it opened. Arnold is 70 and lives in nearby public housing for seniors. She comes every week, and has for the pa... |
| Mar 9, 2018 | Ag Industry Brief: Insect M&A, Kraft Heinz Launches Incubator, Startup Makes Egg Protein from Fungi, more | Alltech president and founder Dr. Pearse Lyons dies at 73
Dr. Pearse Lyons founded Alltech in the 1970s after immigrating to America in the 1970s. The global company provides products related to animal feed, food safety, crop science, and a... |
| Mar 2, 2018 | Ag Industry Brief: Bowery Opening Second Farm, JUST Eyes Africa, Dan Barber Starts Selling Seeds, more | Dan Barber Launches Chef-Centric Seed Company
The latest initiative from a leader in the farm-to-table movement gets to the root of things – Dan Barber, chef at the restaurant Blue Hill announced his latest project: Row 7 Seed Co. The busin... |
| Jun 16, 2016 | Controversial Gulf of Mexico red snapper fishery bill advances | The U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Natural Resources advanced a bill on Wednesday, 15 June regarding red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico that would extend Southern states’ control over federal waters and establish a new managemen... |
| Jan 27, 2016 | Marketing Health: Will the healthier option still be the pricier one? | Words like “premium” or “high end” are often tossed around in the industry to describe packaged food products usually containing the nutritional values consumers believe are good for their bodies, promising it to be free from whatever cont... |
| What I Got Wrong About The Future Of Food Production | As we begin to emerge from a pandemic that will reshape nearly every aspect of our global, national, regional, and local economies, the fragility of one sector, in particular, will be reexamined in a manner not seen since the post-war era m... |
| Tyson Foods begins vaccinating workers against Covid, but struggles to find doses | Tyson started on-site Covid vaccinations at three of its plants this week, but was only able to secure 1,000 doses across three states
The company is actively educating employees to combat vaccine hesitancy and providing paid time off to th... |
| Climate Crisis Weekly: Millions march in the Global Climate Strike, yet Trump snubs the UN climate summit, more | The (truly) Global Climate Strike draws millions to the streets…
… But Donald Trump is snubbing the UN climate summit on Monday.
Climate change is Canadians’ No. 1 concern.
In West Texas, wind power means jobs.
Hurricanes Humberto and Imeld... |