By USDA Newswire | Jan 7, 2023
Release: On January 5, 2023, Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that USDA is investing $9.6 million across the country and taking several other steps to help farmers, ranchers, processors, and rural businesses diversify the nations meat supply.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 7, 2023
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) and the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA) Foundation have created a Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) grower toolkit and corresponding website to increase underserved farmers’ access to new and existing markets and USDA food safety certification programs. This initiative was created under an AMS cooperative agreement with the NASDA Foundation.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 7, 2023
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) today announced it has signed a cooperative agreement with New Hampshire for more than $500,000 to increase their purchase of nutritious, local foods for school meal programs.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 7, 2023
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) today announced it has signed a cooperative agreement with Maryland for more than $2.9 million to increase their purchase of nutritious, local foods for school meal programs.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 7, 2023
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) today announced it has signed a cooperative agreement with Massachusetts for more than $3.5 million to increase their purchase of nutritious, local foods for school meal programs.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 7, 2023
News Release: Washington - In a complaint filed on Nov. 20, 2019, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) alleged that Hood River Juice Company Inc. (HOOD RIVER), Hood River, Ore., failed to make full payment promptly in the total amount of $3,607,420 to 12 sellers for multiple lots of produce in violation of the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By USDA Newswire | Jan 7, 2023
Release: Private exporters reported the following sales activity.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 7, 2023
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative complaint against Valvilla Produce LLC (Valvilla) for alleged violations of the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA). The company, operating from Texas, allegedly failed to make payment promptly to three produce sellers in the amount of $1,493,960 from February 2020 through May 2020.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 7, 2023
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) today announced it has signed a cooperative agreement with the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission (CRITFC) under the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program (LFPA). Through LFPA, the commission and its four member tribes will seek to purchase and distribute locally grown, produced, and processed food from underserved producers.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 7, 2023
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) entered into a stipulation agreement with Anderson County Livestock Exchange, LLC., (ACLE), Texas, on Dec. 19, 2022, for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act. Under the terms of the stipulation, ACLE waived its rights to a hearing and paid a penalty of $4,000.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 7, 2023
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today published the 2021 Pesticide Data Program (PDP) Annual Summary. The summary shows that more than 99 percent of the samples tested had pesticide residues below benchmark levels established by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
By USDA Newswire | Jan 6, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, Jan. 5, 2023 - U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the Biden-Harris Administration is investing $9.6 million across the country and taking several other steps to help farmers, ranchers, processors and rural businesses diversify the nation’s meat supply.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 6, 2023
News Release: Washington - U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the Biden-Harris Administration is investing $9.6 million across the country and taking several other steps to help farmers, ranchers, processors and rural businesses diversify the nation’s meat supply.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 6, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, released the following statement regarding Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow’s announcement that she will not seek re-election to the Senate after serving out the end of her term.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 5, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, Jan. 4, 2023 - Today, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack made the following statement after the swearing in of Jose Emilio Esteban, Ph.D. as the Under Secretary for Food Safety at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 5, 2023
Release: Private exporters reported the following sales activity.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 5, 2023
There were 42 press releases published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service in December 2022.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 5, 2023
Release: Washington - The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is requesting public comments on standards for handling captive wild and exotic animals, as well as strengthening environmental enrichment for all regulated species. The goal of this request, known as an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR), is to inform future proposed changes to the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) regulations and standards.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 5, 2023
The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on Jan. 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 5, 2023
Release: Private exporters reported the following sales activity.
