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One farmer’s trash is another farmer’s treasure. Or so UW professor Sarah Collier thought until the U.S. Department of Agriculture canceled her grant earlier this year.

Nearly two years ago, Collier, who studies food system sustainability at the University of Washington, was awarded around $5 million under a USDA program called Partnerships for Climate-Smart C

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