Animals in the Food System

MacDonald, Ruth S.; Reitmeier, Cheryll A.

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“…In the Northeast food manufacturing sector, food processing firms declined 60% between 1954and 1981(Blair, 1991in Ruhf and Clancy 2022. Consolidation and concentration in food supply chains can provide economies of scale that can serve to reduce overall production costs and provide more affordable products for consumers (MacDonald, 2017), but recent events suggest that the costs savings from eliminating supply chain redundancies may have unintended consequences for food system resiliency (Ruhf and Clancy, 2022). In addition to the loss of physical infrastructure, consolidation and concentration trends have contributed to a loss of localized workforce skills required to successfully bring safe, highquality products to market in a cost-effective way (Danovich, 2016;Forgrieve, 2019).…”

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Financial feasibility of selling frozen produce in local and regional markets

Fitzsimmons,

Lass,

Minifie

et al. 2023

Renew. Agric. Food Syst.

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Farmers and food entrepreneurs are encouraged to enter direct and intermediated markets for value-added food products, but do not have information that they need to determine whether the markets are financially feasible for their operations. We conduct timed trials in a state-of-the-art regional shared-use food processing facility in the Northeast, and test production costs for two high-quality, safe, value-added frozen products: blueberries and spinach. We combine this with research on capital costs, field research on distribution costs and baseline per-unit revenues, and published research on potential market returns, and assess the conditions under which frozen produce sales can be a good business choice for farmers and food businesses in local and regional food markets. We develop a roadmap and a calculator tool that potential market entrants, extension agents, regional food business centers and other agricultural support providers can modify to reflect local and regional market conditions. The tool can help determine whether entering the frozen produce market is a good fit for a farm or food business. In general, we find that frozen regional blueberries have potential to generate a profitable return for medium-scale farmers with access to a shared-use facility, or farmer aggregators with the ability to invest in their own facilities. Frozen regional spinach is unlikely to generate a profitable return at the regional scale. Our results provide critical information to policy makers regarding the scale of production necessary to justify investments in regional shared-used kitchens. Results also suggest that policy makers should be cautious when encouraging farmers and food businesses to enter value-added markets, as there is significant potential for these markets to under-perform.

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Financial feasibility of selling frozen produce in local and regional markets

Fitzsimmons,

Lass,

Minifie

et al. 2023

Renew. Agric. Food Syst.

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“…Food processing is the transformation of raw plant or animal materials into consumer-ready products, with the aim of stabilizing food products by preventing or reducing negative changes in quality (Hogan, Kelly, and Sun 2005). The knowledge of chemistry, microbiology, and physical composition is paramount for successful processing of food (MacDonald and Reitmeier 2017). Food processing technology has witnessed recent advancements from the normal traditional processing technologies to some novel physical processing technologies due to some contemporary issues; like increase in consumer demand for healthy-hygienic and high quality food, low processing efficiency, low product yield and high energy consumption (Ma et al 2019).…”

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Ultrasound, infrared and its assisted technology, a promising tool in physical food processing: A review of recent developments

Zhou

Okonkwo

Inyinbor

et al. 2021

Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

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b department of agricultural and Biosystems engineering, College of engineering, landmark university, omu-aran, Kwara state, nigeria; c department of Physical sciences, industrial Chemistry Programme, landmark university, omu-aran, Kwara state, nigeria; d department of Food science and nutrition, College of Food and agricultural sciences, King saud university, riyadh, saudi arabia; e department of Food science and nutrition, College of agricultural sciences, landmark university, omu-aran, Kwara state, nigeria

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Animals in the Food System

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Financial feasibility of selling frozen produce in local and regional markets

Financial feasibility of selling frozen produce in local and regional markets

Ultrasound, infrared and its assisted technology, a promising tool in physical food processing: A review of recent developments

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