USDA

“Like right now we are educating USDA, the intelligence community, the Department of War and others on these technologies and how they can combat these issues domestically and abroad.”

“The USDA dropped that definition in 2016, so essentially you can go to the supermarket, find on the shelf A product that not necessarily meet the standards of grass fed and grass finished.”

“That we were given 90% guarantee, or the banks was given 90% guarantee.”

“29 sub-agencies, a hundred, over a 100,000 employees, 4500 locations, and an over two hundred billion dollar annual budget.”

“We've already canceled almost six billion dollars, a 100,200 thousand dollars at a time.”

“In America today, through USDA, this is not all the other agencies. This is just here at USDA. We spend three hundred and seventy million dollars a day On nutrition programs.”

“They're actually like extraordinarily specific specifications that the USDA puts out for every item, bananas, apples, oranges. There is strict guidelines on, you know, what falls into what tier. If you look at apples, for example, there's extra fancy, fancy, Y…”

“Cause we actually started the business only doing organic produce. In part, I think it was because, you know, I thought that starting organic would kind of give us more of the quality credibility, but the real answer is there's not a list of all conventional f…”

“One of the things we've realized over the past two years is the United States is not a fertile market for agriculture tech. And that's primarily because the USDA gives so many subsidies that it's still cheaper for a farmer to cull their animals because they're…”

“One of the things we've realized over the past two years is the United States is not a fertile market for agriculture tech. And that's primarily because the USDA gives so many subsidies that it's still cheaper for a farmer to cull their animals because they're…”

“All of the farmers, all of the producers pool their money together. Their collective marketing budget is seven hundred fifty million. All commodities. This includes beef, this includes chicken, this includes dairy, this includes corn, soy, etc.”

“The USD nutrition guidelines committee, which basically approves and recommends various foods. 95% of it is funded by 95% of the panelists are directly funded by food companies or pharma companies.”

“Each one of these meat sticks has the USDA legend on there. So we had a whole list of people to contact. And then we found one specific one in Missouri, in this very small farm town called Green Top, Missouri”

“Even in the U.S., our models are predictive and accurate four to six months in In advance of when the USDA comes out with its numbers within like, 98 to 99% accuracy.”

“And then we heard back after, I don't know how long, a month or two, That we were given 90% guarantee, or the banks was given 90% guarantee.”

“I was involved in the development of the USDA organic rule when I served on the Organic Trade Association.”

“Just late last year, we saw the announcement of the USDA investing into the very first National Institute for Cellular Agriculture.”

“The USDA farm report comes out, they survey farmers and figure out how much they're going to plant every year. And they just downgraded the number of corn acres that are going to get planted this year, which is happening starting this month from ninety three m…”

“Even from before we had our first product, I know from a direct source that a representative of that industry actually reached out to a lobbyist and basically Said to, you know, ask that, ask the lobbyists to get Congress or the USDA to shut us down.”

“Last year we ultimately developed agreements with USDA so that the parts of the cell cultured food, food activity that's got to do with cell culture, for example, and that, that part of the equation ultimately became The FDA's responsibility, and then as we mo…”

“In the financial crisis, overall USDA, US farmland values went down about four percent. There was no interruption of the annual cash revenue streams that were coming out, so basically it was flat zero. Because it's the only asset class along with cash that did…”

“So it's in the low threes, three percent today. So if you look at just the USDA average cropland rental rate in the US divided by average cropland value, it's come down to about three percent.”

“I know that we can make school lunch that can even fit into the minuscule budget of the USDA reimbursement. If we know how to cook, and we do not buy fast food, if we buy the food from the people who are doing it right, and directly,”

“By the end of the season, they're less than one percent error of the total production in the United States”