By USDA Newswire | Nov 26, 2019
News Release: A national U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA ) survey, published recently in Plant Disease, provides the first large-scale, systematic insight into how wheat and barley growers manage Fusarium head blight (FHB), also known as scab, and where they get information on how to control this destructive disease.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 25, 2019
News Release: LAKE POINT, Utah, Nov. 25, 2019 – Today, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Utilities Service Administrator Chad Rupe announced USDA has invested $5.13 million in two separate high-speed broadband infrastructure projects that will create or improve rural e-Connectivity for more than 675 rural households in Utah and western Colorado. This is one of many funding announcements in the first round of USDA’s ReConnect Pilot Program investments.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 25, 2019
News Release: PARSONS, Kansas, Nov. 25, 2019 – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Chief Matthew Lohr today announced USDA has invested $5.2 million in high-speed broadband infrastructure that will create or improve rural e-Connectivity for rural households and farms in Kansas. This is one of many funding announcements in the first round of USDA’s Reconnect Pilot Program investments.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 25, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C., Nov. 25, 2019 – Consistent with the Commerce Department’s Agreement Suspending the Countervailing Duty Investigation on Sugar From Mexico (the Agreement), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today notified the Department of Commerce (Commerce) of an additional need for sugar ...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 25, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C., Nov. 25, 2019 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) today published a final rule clarifying the requirements for reporting foreign sales of beef and pork under the Export Sales Reporting Program.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 25, 2019
Release: . WASHINGTON, Nov. 25, 2019-FAS Program Announcement FAS-ESR-069-19, issued at 9:00 a.m. on Nov. 18, which announced export sales of 132,000 metric tons of corn for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2019/2020 marketing year was issued in error and FAS Program Announcement FAS-ESR-070-19, issued...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 25, 2019
News Release: Contact: press@oc.usda.gov. Washington, D.C., Nov. 25, 2019 - Consistent with the Commerce Department’s Agreement Suspending the Countervailing Duty Investigation on Sugar From Mexico (the Agreement), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today notified the Department of Commerce (Commerce) of...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 25, 2019
Release: Washington, D.C., Nov. 25, 2019 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has prepared and is accepting comments on data sheets regarding certain taxa of plants for planting that are quarantine pests or hosts of quarantine pests. Based on the scientific ...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 23, 2019
News Release: (Athens, GA, Nov. 23, 2019) – Today, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue joined Georgia Governor Brian Kemp to sign a Shared Stewardship agreement between the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Forest Service, the Natural Resources Conservation Service, and the State of Georgia. The agreement was signed at a ceremony at the University of Georgia’s Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
Release: Summary: The Swine Health Protection Act regulates food waste fed to swine and helps ensure that it is properly treated to kill disease causing organisms. APHIS is amending the garbage feeding regulations and move the lists of State statuses from Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) to the APHIS website.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: IRVING, N.Y., Nov. 21, 2019 – Today, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development Donald “DJ” LaVoy announced USDA has invested $4.3 million in high-speed broadband infrastructure that will create or improve rural e-Connectivity for more than 1,000 rural households on the Seneca Nation’s Cattaraugus Territory in western New York. This is one of many funding announcements in the first round of USDA’s ReConnect Pilot Program investments.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated 43 Michigan counties as primary natural disaster areas. suffered losses caused by excessive rain, flooding, flash flooding, and abnormally cold temperatures that since from March 1, 2019, may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 106,000 metric tons of corn for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2019/2020 marketing year.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: Distance Learning and Telemedicine Investments will benefit 5.4 Million Rural Residents in 37 States, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands WASHINGTON, Nov. 20, 2019 – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development Donald “DJ” LaVoy today announced that USDA is investing ...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and their colleagues have discovered, for the first time, an adventive-meaning it just arrived in a new locality-aphid species as well as an associated parasitoid wasp on strawberry plants in Stoneville, Mississippi.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: Washington - U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development Donald “DJ" LaVoy today announced that USDA is investing $42.5 million in 133 distance learning and telemedicine projects (PDF, 238 KB) in 37 states and two U.S. territories. USDA is providing the funding through the Distance Learning and Telemedicine (DLT) grant program. These investments will benefit 5.4 million rural residents.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has determined that Michael C. Harris was not responsibly connected to Sandifer Farms LLC, Blackville, S.C. This is an update to Press Release No: 131-19 issued on Oct. 15, 2019.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
Release: Washington, DC, Nov. 20, 2019 -- USDA today reminded states that as partners in administering the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) they have an opportunity to address challenges and provide support to program participants as they move towards - and into - employment.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 20, 2019
News Release: Washington - Produce Packaging, Inc., operating out of Cleveland, Ohio, has posted a $100,000 surety bond with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to employ Andrew Weingart, as required by the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By USDA Newswire | Nov 19, 2019
News Release: (Washington, D.C., Nov. 19, 2019) – United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue are pleased to announce that the Trump Administration has reached an agreement with the government of South Korea on market access for U.S. rice.
