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.
AMS investigation shows that between August 2021 and January 2022, Happy Valley and Bill Chase issued 24 checks in payment for livestock to 21 different livestock sellers that were returned unpaid by the bank.