By USDA Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated three Colorado counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Eagle, Washington and Yuma counties who suffered losses due to recent drought, may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated six Wyoming counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Big Horn, Hot Springs, Johnson, Natrona, Sheridan and Washakie counties who suffered losses due to recent drought may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated 14 Utah counites as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Beaver, Box Elder, Cache, Davis, Garfield, Grand, Iron, Morgan, Piute, Sevier, Uintah, Washington, Wayne and Weber counties who suffered losses due to recent drought may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated Modoc County, California, as a primary natural disaster area. Producers who suffered losses due to recent drought may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: GATE CITY, Va., Aug. 31, 2020 - The Trump Administration today announced that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $9 million to provide broadband service in unserved and underserved rural areas in Virginia.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
Release: Washington, DC, Aug. 31, 2020 - Today, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will extend several flexibilities through as late as Dec. 31, 2020. The flexibilities allow summer meal program operators to continue serving free meals to all children...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, applauded a school nutrition waiver announcement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which he requested earlier this month.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, issued the following statement after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reversed its decision and will take action to provide healthy meals to students through Dec. 31, 2020. For weeks, Senator Stabenow has urged the USDA to make this change and extend flexibilities that allow schools to feed children during the COVID-19 crisis.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 596,000 metric tons of corn for delivery to China during the 2020/2021 marketing year.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated 14 Texas counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Andrews, Brewster, Collingsworth, Culberson, Hall, Hemphill, Hockley, Hudspeth, Jeff Davis, Loving, Presidio, Reeves, Sutton and Ward counties who suffered losses due to recent drought may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 31, 2020
News Release: Washington - United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development Bette Brand today announced that USDA is implementing the OneRD Guarantee Loan Initiative, releasing new information on rates and terms that will help lenders apply for loan guarantees to support rural businesses, infrastructure and community facilities and increase private investments in rural America.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C., Aug. 28, 2020) – Sunday marks the 130th anniversary of the authorizing legislation establishing the 1890 Land-Grant Universities (LGUs). Almost 30 years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act of 1862, the Second Morrill Act, creating our nation’s historically black ...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C., Aug. 28, 2020) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced today that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Farmers to Families Food Box Program has distributed more than 75 million food boxes in support of American farmers and families affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Earlier this week, President Trump announced an additional up to $1 billion will be added to the Farmers to Families Food Box Program while the economy continues to reopen.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) announced today that it does not expect to purchase and sell sugar under the Feedstock Flexibility Program for crop year 2020, which runs from Oct. 1, 2020, to Sept. 30, 2021.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: Washington -U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) reminds farmers and ranchers that the deadline to apply for the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP) is Sept. 11, 2020. This program provides direct relief to producers who faced price declines and additional marketing costs due to COVID-19.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: Washington - As part of its commitment to ensuring fair and competitive markets for the livestock, meat and poultry industries, on Aug. 19, 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) entered into a stipulation agreement with Halal Transaction of USA, LLC (Halal), of Kinsman, IL, for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act. Under the terms of the stipulation agreement, Halal waived its rights to a hearing and paid a penalty of $1,275.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated Mohave County, Arizona, as a primary natural disaster area. Producers who suffered losses due to recent drought may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: Washington -U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) reminds farmers and ranchers that the deadline to apply for the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP) is Sept. 11, 2020. This program provides direct relief to producers who faced price declines and additional marketing costs due to COVID-19.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 324,032 metric tons of corn received in the reporting period for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2020/2021 marketing year.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 28, 2020
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated two Colorado counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Lake and Summit counties who suffered losses due to recent drought, may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
