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Silicon Valley Bank and Its Impact on Food-Tech Startups

The combination of wealth from high-tech firms and creative thinking on the West Coast has led San Francisco and Silicon Valley to be a center for companies focused on new ideas in food such as plant-based and cell-based production and addressing problems such as food waste. SVB frequently spotlighted investments in alternative proteins and vertical farming companies in its internal analysis in recent years.

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TOPIC(S): Soil Health, USDA, Government / Policies,
TOPIC(S): Sustainability, Beef Cattle, Regenerative Agriculture, Ranching,

03/14/2023 SOURCE: www.publicnewsservice.org

Collaboration Grows 'Regenerative Ranching' Program in Northwest

By Caroline Tracey for Civil Eats.Broadcast version by Deborah Van Fleet for Missouri News Service reporting for the Solutions Journalism Network-Public News Service Collaboration Jack Southworth’s ranch sits at 4,600 feet in elevation outside Seneca, Oregon, near the Strawberry and Blue mountain ranges. Like many ranchers, his cattle graze private, deeded land in the winter and leased National Forest land in the summer, including a high mountain plateau filled with bluebunch wheatgrass and Idaho fescue and surrounded by Ponderosa Pine forest. Since the valley is “good at collecting cold air,” as Southworth put it, it has a short growing season, and if cattle stay too long in any given place, they will eat the grass down to bare ground, creating conditions for soil erosion. ...

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