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PepsiCo Ties Regenerative Agriculture to Crop Resilience, Farmer Viability
PepsiCo is expanding regenerative agriculture efforts across key crop supply chains to prioritize resilience, soil health, and long-term farmer viability, with implications for sugar crops like beets and cane, vegetables like potatoes, and should affect end products across the company's vast portfolio of packaged food and beverages. The goal is to show how farmers can strengthen the economic and environmental health of their farms with regenerative practices that are focused on resilience, according to VP of Sustainability, Margaret Henry.
Farm Groups' Letter Urges Farm Labor Reform as H-2A Costs Squeeze Growers
On August 10, a broad coalition of US agricultural groups urged lawmakers to swiftly pass HR 9535, the Securing Agriculture’s Workforce Act (or SAWA) which would overhaul the H-2A farm labor program through changes to worker eligibility, wage rules, and administrative requirements. The use of foreign labor is an aspect of farming closely tied to production costs, margins, harvest timing, crop acreage, and marketable supply.
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