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Google-Backed FoodTrace Helps Restaurants And Distributors Source Local Foods

Within the next year, FoodTrace would like to expand throughout the Midwest and the West Coast.

California Gov. Brown Orders Sweeping Water Use Cut; Farms Exempt

The cuts mean industrial parks and golf courses must immediately cut a quarter of their water use on ornamental turf, and homeowners will be pressed to replace thirsty lawns with drought-tolerant landscaping.

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Ocean Ports & Carriers

Greece Decides To Sell Port Of Piraeus To Chinese Firm

Deputy Prime Minister Yannis Dragasakis told China's official Xinhua news agency that Athens will sell its majority stake in the port of Piraeus within weeks.

File photo of Greece's Piraeus Port.

U.S. Farmers Continue To Eschew Corn For Soybeans

Analysts predict farmers will plant record soybean acreage this spring for a second consecutive year while cutting corn plantings for the third in a row, a move that comes as growers grapple with a roughly 50 percent decline in the price of corn.

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Heinz And Kraft Agree To Merge As Kraft Heinz Co., Expect $1.5 Billion In Annual Cost Savings

The combination of these iconic food companies joins together two portfolios of brands, including Heinz, Kraft, Oscar Mayer, Ore-Ida and Philadelphia will have eight $1+ billion brands and five brands between $500 million and $1 billion.

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FDA Approves GMO Apples And Potatoes As Safe

Food & Drug Administration (FDA)

In a rare press announcement on GMO crops, the FDA said the gene-altered apples and potatoes are good for commercial plating since they are "as safe and nutritious as their conventional counterparts."

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Ocean Ports & Carriers

Thai Slave 'Chained Like A Dog' On Fishing Vessel

International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF)

An International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) delegation has boarded industrial fishing vessels landing their catch in Songkhla port, Southern Thailand last week, as part of an investigation into labor rights abuses.

This isn't the first time the fishing industry in Southeast Asia has been accused of worker abuse, with these 11 Burmese migrants were rescued in this file photo from June of 2012.

Oceanic Fish Farm Coming To Suffolk County, N.Y.?

Manna Fish Farms Inc., has pitched a New York state business incubator the idea of mooring as many as two dozen mesh-enclosed galvanized steel geodesic pods in the Atlantic Ocean, about three miles off the coast. where striped bass could be raised.

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Waste Reduction

Supply Chain Innovation Could Save Billions In Reducing Food Waste

Rabobank sees innovation as the most effective means of making an immediate difference to reducing waste.

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Feds Set Timetable For Fighting Seafood Fraud

The plan articulates the steps that federal agencies will take both domestically and internationally to implement the recommendations the Task Force made in December 2014.

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Acme Smoked Fish Corp. Opens Biggest Smoked Salmon Facility in Wilmington, N.C.

The new facility will serve as a platform for Acme to accommodate future growth and sales opportunities in the smoked seafood category, both domestically and internationally, while still remaining connected to its Brooklyn roots.

How Green Are You?

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