Sentences with phrase «announced by agriculture»
The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) issued the following statement from Pamela G. Bailey, president and CEO, on national food waste reduction goals as announced by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and EPA:
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«The President multiple times reaffirmed in general to all of us, and looked at Larry Kudlow, and said Larry go get it done,» Sasse said after exiting a White House meeting with the President about trade and agriculture that he attended with several governors and congressional leaders who represent states that they say will be adversely impacted by the President's recently announced tariffs.
SUNNYVALE, Calif. --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Blue River Technology, a leader in the use of computer vision, machine learning and robotics for agriculture, today announced it has raised $ 17 million in Series B funding led by Pontifax Global Food and Agriculture Technology Fund (Pontifagriculture, today announced it has raised $ 17 million in Series B funding led by Pontifax Global Food and Agriculture Technology Fund (PontifAgriculture Technology Fund (Pontifax AgTech).
In announcing the Local Food Act, Dix was joined by New Democrat agriculture critic Nicholas Simons, small business critic Lana Popham, Farm to Cafeteria Canada national manager Joanne Bays, FarmFolk CityFolk executive director Nicholas Scapillati, and local farmers.
In Budget 2012, the government announced the death of the Community Pasture Program, run by the former Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration, now the Agri - Environment Services Branch of the Department of Agriculture.
The findings were announced by Professor Carlo Leifert of the Tesco Centre for Organic Agriculture based at Newcastle University, UK, who with his team are working on the EU funded project called the Quality Low Input Food (QLIF) project, the biggest ever to research the pros and cons of organic farming and food.
We are pleased to announce a new occasional blog series, Cultivating Tomorrow: Indian Agriculture Challenged, by Marshall M. Bouton, president emeritus of The Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (USDA) announced Tuesday that after a year of delays — and a lawsuit filed against it by the Organic Trade Association (OTA)-- it has decided to withdraw the Organic Livestock and Poultry Practices (OLPP) final rule, saying it «exceeds the Department's statutory authority.»
The state's agriculture and planning ministers on Wednesday announced the changes, triggered by the embarrassing stand - off last year between Murrindindi Shire Council and wagyu beef farmer David Blackmore, when the council in north - eastern Victoria refused to grant him a permit to continue his high - profile farming operation.
On Friday the Agriculture department announced it had suspended the supply of sheep to a Qatar abattoir after seeing footage provided by Animals Australia.
In November, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Environmental Protection Agency announced the U.S. Food Loss and Waste 2030 Champions, a group of 15 businesses committed to cutting their own food loss and waste in half by 2030.
July 26, 2017 (Petaluma, Calif.) Tesla, mooo - ve over: California dairy farmer Albert Straus, a pioneer in organic dairy and sustainable agriculture, announces the launch of the first full - scale electric truck — powered by cow poop.
On Tuesday 31st May 2011 Agriculture Minister Joe Ludwig announced the suspension of live cattle exports to the 11 Indonesian abattoirs investigated by ABC's Four Corners.
Announced at the Building Sustainable Futures Forum sponsored by Olam International, the newly - formed GAA is a CEO - led private sector initiative seeking to contribute significantly to the delivery of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, most notably SDG 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture [1].
On September 16, 2015, in alignment with Target 12.3 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, Exit the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and EPA announced the first ever domestic goal to reduce food loss and waste by half by the year 2030.
NEW YORK, Dec. 15, 2016 / PRNewswire / — Today, The Rockefeller Foundation announced its collaboration with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and a partnership of 10 private sector and non-profit organizations to create «Further With Food: Center for Food Loss and Waste Solutions,» an online hub for the exchange of information and solutions that can help realize the national goal of cutting food waste in half by 2030.
NEW YORK, Sept. 16, 2015 — Today, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Environmental Protection Agency Deputy Administrator Stan Meiburg announced the United States» first - ever national food waste reduction goal, calling for a 50 - percent reduction by 2030.
Sodexo, world leader in Quality of Life services, today announced being named by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to the inaugural class of the U.S. Food Loss and Waste 2030 Champions.
The White House is set to announce on Monday a major new initiative that would place up to 5,000 salad bars in public schools nationwide despite uncertainties over how those salad bars might be treated by local health inspectors and U.S. Department of Agriculture rules that could prove a major impediment.
The press release sent by Gillibrand's office notes she is the first New York senator to serve on the Agriculture Committee in nearly 40 years, and says she and Hanna will be announcing a new effort to change the federal school lunch guidelines to make Greek yogurt — New York's hottest dairy commodity these days — more affordable for schools.
Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr, joined by Superintendent Martha Group and the V.V.S. Agriculture Department will announce the location, funding and scope for the VVS Animal Science Center, an instructional facility used to teach STEM... Read more
Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr, joined by Superintendent Martha Group and the V.V.S. Agriculture Department will announce the location, funding and scope for the VVS Animal Science Center, an instructional facility used to teach STEM through Applied Animal Science by the VVS Agriculture Department.
Farms and agriculture businesses ravaged by tropical storms Lee and Irene are in line to receive $ 2.4 million in grants from the state's Agricultural and Community Recovery Fund, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced today.
► In other climate change news, Leigh Dayton wrote on Tuesday that in April, «the University of Western Australia (UWA) in Perth announced plans to set up an Australian Consensus Centre (ACC), chaired by [global warming skeptic Bjørn] Lomborg, that would conduct policy research on overseas aid, Australian prosperity, agriculture, and regional issues.
In Asia, the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries announced in late June that it was suspending approval of Bt crops for agricutural purposes, pending the establishment of criteria by a special committee on genetically modified organisms.
A food safety lab at the New York State Department of Agriculture & Markets (NYSADM) in Albany last week announced that it had found aminopterin in food samples provided by Menu Foods.
The decision by Henk Bleker, minister for agriculture and foreign trade, was announced this afternoon in a press release (Dutch) posted on the ministry's Web site.
The $ 4.6 million grant is the largest of five totaling $ 23 million that were recently announced by the USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
Researchers have discovered a new ranging behavior in male badgers, which will aid the implementation of a nationwide TB vaccination program, recently announced by the Department of Agriculture, Food and The Marine in Ireland.
School Lunches to Be Allowed Unlimited Meats, Grains, USDA Announces The Agriculture Department is responding to criticism over new school lunch rules by allowing more grains and meat in kids» meals.
Several animal welfare organizations that provided major support for Missourians for the Protection of Dogs and the campaign to pass Proposition B, the Puppy Mill Cruelty Prevention Act, issued the statements in response to the «compromise» announced today by Gov. Jay Nixon and the Missouri Department of Agriculture.
Highlighting these priorities, Indonesia's energy minister announced that by «shifting the subsidy from consumption into more productive spending... [in] 2015, the public works, the transportation sector and the agriculture [sector] will double the [ir] capital expenditure budget.»
... Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced in 2011 that the USDA intends to install 10,000 blender pumps by 2016.
In a dramatic announcement, Cambodia's Secretary of State for Agriculture, Chan Tong Yves, announced that the RGC would preserve the fabulous diversity of the Cardamom mountain range by taking them out of concession.
But the good news for tropical forests was tempered by developments including Indonesia announcing its intentions to open up more than 2 million hectares of carbon - dense peatlands to old palm development; the collapse in law enforcement in Madagascar, contributing to an explosion of commercial timber (and lemur) harvesting in that country's spectacular rainforest parks; a breakdown at the RSPO meeting over efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from palm oil production; violent conflict in Peru between government security forces and indigenous groups over land rights and resource extraction; massive foreign land acquisitions in the Congo Basin; dodgy REDD dealings in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea; and large - scale expansion of oil palm agriculture in the Amazon.
The same country that has made headlines for measuring Gross National Happiness (there are some legitimate questions for how GNH is calculated) and aiming for 100 % organic agriculture recently announcing a partnership with Nissan to supply electric vehicles (EVs) to government and taxi fleets, as well as electric vehicle chargers, as part of a broad scale effort to cut fossil fuel imports by a whopping 70 %, eventually aiming to become a zero emissions nation.
The Kansas Department of Agriculture has recently announced that it would move most of its offices to the city of Manhattan, and in 2009, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security also announced it would complete construction of the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) by 2020.