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Growing Produce
USDA has awarded $200 million to 57 organizations through the Agricultural Trade Promotion Program to help U.S. farmers identify and access new export markets. The ATP is one of three USDA programs created to mitigate the effects of unjustified trade retaliation against U.S. farmers and exporters. USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service accepted ATP applications from U.S. trade associations, cooperatives and other industry-affiliated organizations.
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Fresh Plaza
The Melon and Watermelon Interprofessional Organization is working on the development of a census of producers and marketers. The goal is to find out what the market's composition and its productive potential are. The preparation of this census is one of the tasks set for 2019 by the Melon and Watermelon Department of Cooperativas Agroalimentarias Castile-La Mancha.
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U.S. Food and Drug Administration via Food Safety News
When the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act was signed into law in 2011, one of the most challenging parts of Congress' mandate was to transform the nation's food safety system as it related to produce safety and implement a system of preventive controls that aimed to avert problems. At that time, U.S. produce farmers, and those in countries that export to the U.S., had never been subject to this level of federal food safety oversight.
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Food Safety Magazine
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced new plans, via the issuing of final guidance, for how the agency will issue public warnings about voluntary recalls. The new step FDA is taking will help to ensure appropriate public warnings and notification of recalls when FDA-regulated products are involved. The guidance shed light on how companies can determine whether or not they should issue a public warning about a voluntary recall.
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Bloomberg News via Valley News
In an Illinois River town where Abe Lincoln once toiled as a country lawyer, the slaughterhouse of the future runs at a speed that generations of Midwestern farmers would have dismissed as fantasy. At other factories, as many as seven government inspectors are stationed along the slaughter line to look for signs of contamination or disease. Here, in Beardstown, Illinois, workers bear more of that responsibility.
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Information Age
To meet the demands of a growing global population and already stressed food and water ecosystems, IBM researchers around the globe are working on five new technologies that will dramatically transform the food supply chain over the next five years. Going through industrial revolution after industrial revolution has brought society and our planet to a point of no return, nearly.
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Food Dive
In late 2018, the USDA released the requirements for labeling genetically modified ingredients and although mandatory compliance is not until Jan. 1, 2022, some food manufacturers have indicated that they will start identifying these ingredients as early as 2020. As a result, now is the time to closely examine your product ingredient deck and consider replacing your fats and oils with non-GMO sunflower oil.
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USDA
The USDA is set to release the complete set of tables prepared for the upcoming USDA Agricultural Projections to 2028 report. The new tables will include projections for farm income, U.S. fruits, nuts and vegetables supply and use and global commodity trade. Tables containing long-term supply, use and price projections to 2028 for major U.S. crops and livestock products.
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Politico
President Donald Trump's trade war is magnifying some of the toughest farm conditions since the crisis that bankrupted thousands of farmers in the 1980s—and threatening a constituency crucial to his reelection hopes. The president's trade policies have sent U.S. agricultural exports plunging, exacerbating already difficult economic conditions facing farmers.
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Supermarket News
Back in 2017, when Amazon first purchased Whole Foods Markets, one of the first moves made by the new owner was a slew of highly publicized price reductions designed to soften the grocer's "Whole Paycheck" reputation—that its prices were too high for the average shopper. Now that may be changing.
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Progressive Grocer
Third-party delivery service Deliv has terminated its last-mile partnership with Walmart following a Reuters report claiming that the e-commerce giant greatly inconvenienced the Menlo Park, California-based service's drivers by how it handled grocery e-commerce orders. Citing people familiar with the Walmart-Deliv partnership, the Reuters report noted that Walmart isn't able to process orders fast enough.
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Grocery Dive
Kroger launched Kroger Pay, a mobile payment program that combines shoppers' payment information with loyalty cards and promotions, including digital coupons and personalized offers. Available in the grocer's app, the program generates a QR code that shoppers scan at traditional checkouts as well as self-checkout stations.
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