The U.S. Department of Agriculture published an assessment report conducted by Kansas State University to assess market information provided by the Cattle Contracts Library Pilot Program.
The Vermont Agency of Agriculture Food and Markets funds projects that support market development for small Vermont farms and food businesses and promote development of Vermont value-added products.
Puerto Rico Department of Agriculture bolsters the island’s agricultural infrastructure with an emphasis on establishing advanced industrial processing facilities.
North Carolina Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services funds projects that expand on-farm cold storage and packaging capacity, implement post-harvest handling, provide refrigerated trucks and expand aggregator facilities.
The presence of a federally declared weather or environmental disaster increases the chance of reduced slaughter volumes and the size of the reduction, as well as the probability of plants shutting down.
Using RFSI funding, the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry funds projects that will achieve on-farm facility infrastructure improvements to resolve middle-of-the-supply-chain challenges for Maine agricultural products and support processing, packaging, storage and distribution improvements.
While Georgia possesses the natural resources and much of the infrastructure necessary to scale up its domestic fish production, it lacks expertise in aquaculture and currently imports most of its trout from bordering Turkey.
Scientists with University of Idaho’s Aquaculture Research Institute lead an effort to establish rainbow-trout production as a significant industry in the transcontinental country of Georgia.