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Truffle Avenue Extols Romanian Delicacy in US eCommerce

In a strategic shift in the culinary landscape, Truffle Avenue has launched its U.S.-based website—a platform for customers to select from various top-quality truffles and have them delivered directly to their home or business. The company challenges the conventional focus on Italian truffles, introducing food enthusiasts and chefs to the diverse and untapped world of Romanian truffles.

The Truffle Avenue website aims to facilitate a direct connection between truffle hunters and consumer guaranteeing premium quality and authentic flavor profiles distinct to the Romanian terrain.

Truffle Avenue’s website delivers transparency and quality to customers. It enables users to explore and order varying types, weights, and sizes of hand-picked, fresh black and white truffles, all from unique climatic and soil conditions.

The launch of Truffle Avenue’s website is a stride towards reshaping perceptions and nurturing appreciation for the rich, varied, and undiscovered truffle-producing regions of Eastern Europe. It debunks the entrenched belief in the exclusivity of Italian truffles, highlighting the distinctive flavors of Romanian truffles.

Horatiu’s mission also serves to recognize the diligent and highly skilled Romanian truffle hunters, spotlighting the untold stories and immense efforts invested in sourcing this delicacy.

Truffle Avenue brings a fresh perspective to the food industry and offers a chance for gourmands to explore new culinary territories.

“In gastronomy, an ingredient’s journey is as crucial as its flavor,” said Horatiu Terpe, founder.

In recent years, the demand to buy fresh truffles has amplified. As this continues, exploration of diverse produce markets is paramount. Truffle Avenue is strategically positioned to meet this growing demand, pioneering a model that ensures truffles are harvested post-order, and truffle delivery occurs overnight to retain maximum flavor for customers.

Truffle Avenue promises the freshest and most premium truffles at competitive prices, linking discerning palates to authentic Romanian truffles and establishing Romania as a crucial contender in the global truffle market. The website’s launch paves the way for households and businesses across America to have easy access to quality Romanian truffles.

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Farmers Business Network, ADM Expand Regenerative Agriculture

Farmers Business Network, Inc., the global AgTech platform and farmer-to-farmer network, celebrates several milestones achieved and significant expansions including regenerative agriculture through a growing partnership with ADM, a global leader in sustainable agriculture supply chains.

In 2022, FBN and ADM launched a collaboration allowing ADM customers to leverage FBN’s innovative digital farm business management platform, Gradable. This collaboration successfully enrolled 1,500 growers and covered over 1 million cultivated acres of farmland, rewarding producers for conservation practices like cover cropping, conservation tillage, and emission reductions. In 2023, this program will continue to grow.

“ADM continues to lead the industry when it comes to their sustainability efforts,” said John Vaske, CEO, Farmers Business Network. “We’re proud that our technology and solutions can help power that transformation while simultaneously providing vital revenue streams for both FBN and ADM customers.”

FBN empowers growers to better manage their operations and make decisions to expand profitability potential. Through its Gradable platform, farms are encouraged to incorporate sustainable practices into their operation by attributing value to their conservation activities. Growers submit data securely, allowing Gradable to validate their sustainable practices and calculate the corresponding environmental outcomes. FBN and Gradable enable ADM and farmers to access voluntary and regulatory rewards within the supply chain through practice and outcome claims. Conveniently, farmers access this service and technology via the FBN app, the same place that allows them to securely link their ADM account information, providing them with a single app for viewing futures, cash grain bids, scale tickets, contracts and settlements while also staying updated with market relevant information, daily market news, and more.

In 2023, FBN’s critical role in this partnership will help power a significant expansion of ADM’s re:generations regenerative agriculture programs, which offer a broad array of financial and technical support to producers either adopting or continuing current regenerative ag practices. This will ultimately attach positive environmental impacts to food, feed and fuel ingredients for downstream ADM customers. In addition, the program highlights the good work producers are doing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve water quality and soil health, and enhance biodiversity through proactive practices like the use of cover crops, nutrient management and reduced tillage. ADM enrolled more than a million North American acres in regenerative agriculture programs in 2022, and FBN is helping to enable ambitious 2023 goals, including:

  • Growing acres of conservation activities in more geographies: More than 2 million acres spanning across 18 states in the US and three provinces in Canada will participate in the programs
  • Growing farm participation across more commodities: More than 3,000 growers will participate in re:generations programs designed for corn, soybeans, wheat, cotton, peanuts, and more
  • Growing incentives: Participating farmers stand to earn rewards up to $25 per acre

“We’re proud to continue to expand our work with FBN, whose technology is helping ADM dramatically expand regenerative agriculture acres,” said Greg Morris, president of ADM’s Ag Services and Oilseeds business. “Farmers have always been stewards of the environment, and Gradable is a key enabler in our efforts to help producers improve their bottom lines, strengthen farm resiliency, meet growing global demand for more sustainably sourced products, and help pave the way to a more sustainable future.”

This FBN news comes on the heels of rapid momentum for the company. In recent months v rolled out its Instant Approval financing option, and launched AcreVision, a robust free farmland evaluation solution.

Farmers Business Network, Inc. is an independent AgTech platform and farmer-to-farmer network with a mission to power the prosperity of family farmers around the world while working towards a sustainable future. Its Farmers First promise has attracted over 65,000 members to the network with a common goal of helping farmers maximize their farm’s profit potential with data and technology enabled direct-to farmer commerce, community and sustainability offerings.

FBN has set out to redefine value and convenience for farmers by helping reduce the cost of production and maximize the value of their crops. Blending the best of Midwestern agricultural roots and Silicon Valley technology, the company has principal offices in San Carlos, Calif., and Chicago with significant warehouse and logistics, remote and field employees across the United States and Canada.

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Southeastern Grocers Forms Disability Resource Group

Southeastern Grocers Inc., parent company and home of Fresco y Más, Harveys Supermarket and Winn-Dixie grocery stores, is deepening its unwavering commitment to belonging, inclusion and diversity with its newly formed associate disability resource group – Mobility, Support, Accessibility and Inclusion in the Community. The purpose of MOSAIC is to educate, advocate and celebrate SEG associates of all abilities by sharing experiences, providing educational training around disabilities, and advocating for disability diversity, equality, inclusion and accessibility.

In support of its ongoing commitment to BID, and to further foster and promote a culture that embraces people of all abilities, SEG proudly donated $5,000 to The Jericho School for Children with Autism, a private nonprofit school that provides vital student resources and education programs for North Florida children with autism and other developmental disabilities.

Raymond Rhee, Chief People Officer for Southeastern Grocers, said, “Celebrating our diverse associates, customers and communities includes people of all abilities. It cultivates an environment that champions inclusion and belonging inside our stores and in the unique neighborhoods we serve. That’s why our support of The Jericho School for Children with Autism, its students and staff is a natural launch of our MOSAIC associate resource group. We believe in fostering partnerships that not only empower our associates, but also enrich the lives of those around us. We are building a mosaic of diversity, unity and opportunity for all – and that’s what winning together looks like.”

The grocer announced the newly formed associate disability resource group at its annual WeSEG Conference, an engaging and interactive forum held virtually for all SEG associates to empower them with fresh perspectives and calls to action as inclusive leaders and allies. MOSAIC is 1 of 9 associate resource groups created to support and celebrate SEG’s diverse associates, customers and communities, while cultivating an environment that champions inclusion and belonging within SEG and the unique neighborhoods it serves. The grocer’s other associate resource groups include: Women’s Development Network, Emerging Leaders, SEG Pride, Pa’lante, African Americans FOCUS, ASPIRE, Military Families and Working Parents Network.

Through its continued commitment to belonging, inclusion and diversity, SEG also recently accepted applications from nonprofits throughout the Southeast for its 2023 Romay Davis Belonging, Inclusion and Diversity Grant. The grant, ranging from $5,000 to $25,000, supports organizations that work to address racial disparities in education, health care and food insecurity, while building a more inclusive and equitable future for all.

Recipient nonprofit organizations will be announced following the grant namesake’s 104th birthday celebration on Oct. 29. Since its inception in 2020, SEG’s Romay Davis Belonging, Inclusion and Diversity Grant has provided more than $685,000 in funding to qualified nonprofits to elevate underserved communities throughout Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi.

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