By USDA Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 7, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today held a hearing titled, “Implementation of the 2018 Farm Bill: Rural Development and Energy Programs."
By USDA Newswire | Nov 6, 2019
News Release: CLINTON, N.C., Nov. 6, 2019 – Today, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development Donald “DJ” LaVoy announced USDA has invested $23.7 million in high-speed broadband infrastructure that will create or improve rural e-Connectivity for nearly 8,750 rural households in North Carolina. This is one of many funding announcements in the first round of USDA’s ReConnect Pilot Program investments.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 6, 2019
News Release: Washington - As part of its commitment to ensuring fair and competitive markets for the livestock, meat and poultry industries, on Oct. 2, 2019, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reached a consent decision with Jonathan Allen Sivertson Jr., doing business as Sivertson Farms (Sivertson), of Souris, N.D., for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 6, 2019
News Release: CLINTON, N.C., Nov. 6, 2019 - Today, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development Donald “DJ" LaVoy announced USDA has invested $23.7 million in high-speed broadband infrastructure that will create or improve rural e-Connectivity for nearly 8,750 rural households in North Carolina. This is one of many funding announcements in the first round of USDA’s ReConnect Pilot Program investments.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 6, 2019
News Release: Washington - As part of its efforts to enforce the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) and ensure fair trading practices within the U.S. produce industry, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative complaint under the PACA against Versa Marketing Inc. The company, operating from California, allegedly failed to make payment promptly to three produce sellers in the amount of $792,939 from February 2018 through August 2018.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 6, 2019
News Release: Scientists with USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL ) are working on field trials and genetic studies that could one day double the yields of sorghum, which is one of the world's most important sources of food, animal feed and biofuel.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 6, 2019
News Release: CATOOSA, Oklahoma, November 6, 2019 - The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to improve tribes’ and tribal members’ access to farm conservation programs to advance conservation in Indian Country. The MOU was...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 6, 2019
News Release: Washington - As part of its commitment to ensuring fair and competitive markets for the livestock, meat and poultry industries, on Oct. 2, 2019, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reached a consent decision against Four R Ranch LLC, Greg Ryan and Tim Ryan (Four R Ranch), Rineyville, Kentucky, for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards Act (Act).
By USDA Newswire | Nov 6, 2019
News Release: Washington - As part of its efforts to enforce the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) and ensure fair trading practices within the U.S. produce industry, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on Huxtable’s Kitchen Inc. (Huxtable’s), Vernon, California, for failing...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: (Muse, Oklahoma, Nov. 5, 2019) – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Under Secretary for Farm Production and Conservation Bill Northey today announced USDA has invested over $4.2 million in high-speed broadband infrastructure that will create or improve rural e-Connectivity for rural households and farms in Oklahoma. This is one of many funding announcements in the first round of USDA’s ReConnect Pilot Program investments.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C., November 5, 2019 - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue will lead a trade mission to Mexico November 6-8 to forge new opportunities with U.S. agriculture’s largest bilateral trading partner and second-largest export market. The Secretary will be joined by Under Secretary for Trade...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: Washington - U.S. Department of Agriculture Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs Ted McKinney issued the following statement following the Inter-American Board of Agriculture’s (IABA) endorsement last week of a resolution emphasizing the need for science-based agricultural regulations to facilitate global agricultural trade.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 5, 2019
News Release: WEST LAFAYETTE, INDIANA, November 5, 2019-Descendants of the fungus-like pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine in the 1840s-Phytophthora infestans-may have had a "helping hand" in recent U.S. outbreaks of the costly blight disease.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: LAWRENCEVILLE, Va., Nov. 4, 2019 – Today, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development Donald “DJ” LaVoy announced USDA has invested nearly $3.8 million in high-speed broadband infrastructure that will create or improve rural e-Connectivity for more than 1,250 rural households in Virginia. This is one of many funding announcements in the first round of USDA’s ReConnect Pilot Program investments.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: LAWRENCEVILLE, Va., Nov. 4, 2019 - Today, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development Donald “DJ" LaVoy announced USDA has invested nearly $3.8 million in high-speed broadband infrastructure that will create or improve rural e-Connectivity for more than 1,250 rural households in Virginia. This is one of many funding announcements in the first round of USDA’s ReConnect Pilot Program investments.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: SALINAS, California, November 4, 2019- USDA Red, the world's first true red spinach variety has been developed and released by the Agricultural Research Service.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 1, 2019
News Release: (Washington, D.C., Nov. 1, 2019) - Today, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced the “OneUSDA Internship” opportunity for Summer 2020. As part of the Federal Pathways Program, the OneUSDA Internship Program will provide students a way to explore serving their country through a career in government while gaining work experience in agriculture, natural resources, rural development, and other career fields.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 1, 2019
News Release: Investments will Benefit 1.5 million Residents and Businesses WASHINGTON, Nov. 1, 2019 – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $1.4 billion in projects in 21 states to build and improve rural electric infrastructure.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 1, 2019
News Release: Washington - As part of its efforts to enforce the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) and ensure fair trading practices within the U.S. produce industry, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on three produce businesses for failing to meet their contractual obligations...
