Rural infrastructure funding: Deputy Agriculture Secretary Jewel Bronaugh is to announce more than $1 billion for rural infrastructure projects during a visit to an Alabama hospital on Wednesday. (FERN’s Ag Insider)
Cell-based meat kickoff?: Investors have poured $2 billion into companies developing cell-based meat in the past two years and one of them says U.S. approval of cell-based meat for human consumption could come as early as this year. (CNBC)
Drought clobbered avocados: Fruit supplier Limoneria says drought reduced the California avocado crop and drove up prices in 2021 but winter storms are expected to bring a turnaround this year. (Food Dive)
U.S. shuns fruit, veggies: Only one of every 10 adult Americans eats the government-recommended amount of fruits and vegetables, according to the results of a CDC survey. (The Packer)
Melting iceberg deluge: A melting mega-iceberg the size of Rhode Island released roughly 152 billion tons of fresh water and nutrients in a three-month period near the Atlantic Ocean island of South Georgia, “potentially impacting the island’s rich ecosystem,” says a study in the journal Remote Sensing of Environment. (CBS News)