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Online butcher, meat delivery service gets $3.7M in seed funding
Meatingplace (free registration required) | Posted onJune 13, 2018 in Food NewsOnline whole animal butcher shop and delivery service Porter Road said it has secured $3.7 million in seed funding from multiple investors. Chefs/butchers Chris Carter and James Peisker founded the company as a brick-and-mortar butcher shop in Nashville in 2011 and, after developing a cult following, launched the online business in February 2018.
ICE Raid at Corso’s Leads to More Than 100 Arrests
Greenhouse Grower | Posted onJune 13, 2018 in Federal NewsU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents made more than 100 arrests Tuesday at Corso’s Flower and Garden Center in northern Ohio, aided by about 200 law enforcement workers, in one of the largest employer stings in recent years.
USDA streamlines produce safety rule
Brownfield Ag News | Posted onJune 13, 2018 in Agriculture, Federal NewsThe USDA and FDA have streamlined produce safety requirements for specialty crop growers. U.S. Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue says the agency’s Harmonized Good Agricultural Practices Audit Program now aligns with the FDA’s Food Safety Modernization Act’s Produce Safety Rule and inspection requirements from both agencies will be less of a burden for farmers.FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb says his agency is working to provide more resources to states which conduct most of the food safety inspections.
Amendment defunds grizzly transport, delists wolves
Capital Press | Posted onJune 13, 2018 in SARL Members and Alumni NewsA U.S. Interior Department appropriations bill, just passed out of committee, includes an amendment from Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., that defunds transporting grizzly bears into the North Cascades, delists gray wolves and increases transparency of grazing permit monitoring.
40 animal activists arrested at California farm
Capital Press | Posted onJune 13, 2018 in Agriculture NewsAuthorities have arrested 40 animal rights activists who entered a Northern California organic egg farm to document alleged cruel conditions and rescue chickens. The Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office says the trespassing arrests were made Tuesday in Petaluma after several hundred people gathered at Sunrise Farms. Those detained were to be cited and released.
Easy entry into Oregon’s legal pot market means huge surplus
Capital Press | Posted onJune 13, 2018 in Agriculture, SARL Members and Alumni NewsExperts say the dizzying evolution of Oregon’s marijuana industry may well be a cautionary tale for California.
Neighboring states’ legal pot means bigger busts in Utah
Capital Press | Posted onJune 13, 2018 in Agriculture NewsThe Utah Highway Patrol is seizing more marijuana on state highways and interstates since the drug has been legalized in a number of Western states. John Huber, the U.S. Attorney for Utah, says drug busts within the state’s borders historically yielded only a few pounds per stop.But he tells the Deseret News it is no longer unusual to intercept up to 100 pounds at a time as loads of marijuana make their way across the state from places like California and Oregon.
Senate produces bipartisan draft farm bill
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition | Posted onJune 13, 2018 in Federal NewsSenate Agriculture Committee leadership has shown that the farm bill can and should remain a bipartisan affair. Committee Chairman Pat Roberts (R-KS) and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) have, true to their word, worked together to produce a bill that includes much-needed policy improvements and funding increases that will help drive the sustainability of American agriculture.
Cut melons linked to salmonella outbreak in Michigan, Indiana
WNDU | Posted onJune 13, 2018 in Food NewsA multistate salmonella outbreak has been linked to cut melons, and most of the illnesses have been reported in Michigan and Indiana. Most people who have been infected with this strain of salmonella bought pre-cut melon at Walmart or Kroger stores, according to the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.If you've purchased pre-cut melon from Walmart or Kroger, including fruit salad mixes with melon, you should throw it away.Both stores have removed all cut melon associated with this outbreak, Michigan health officials say.
Report brings 17 recommendations for rural Communities
| Posted onJune 13, 2018 in Rural NewsThe 28-page report, called Rural Challenges, national opportunity – Shaping the future of rural Canada, was released May 31 during the FCM annual meeting. It lists details of how important rural municipal contributions are and how unique the issues and problems these communities face.