By USDA Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
Release: Summary: The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) provided the US Patent Office with data on the length of APHIS’s review period for a specific vaccine. The makers of the Porcine Circovirus Vaccine, Type 1-Type 2 Chimera, Killed Virus, Mycoplasma ...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: “Next week the President is expected to be in Minnesota and I look forward to hearing details about how his EPA will get back to the 15 billion gallons that are promised in law and address the 4 billion gallons lost in waivers that have already been granted. Until we have answers to those questions today’s announcement is just another IOU to struggling farmers and shuttered biofuel plants.".
By USDA Newswire | Oct 4, 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 New York Mart Group Inc. The company, operating from New York, allegedly failed to make payment promptly to 23 produce sellers in the amount of $896,107 from October 2016 through December 2018.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: Washington - As part of its commitment to ensuring fair and competitive markets for the livestock, meat and poultry industries, on Sept. 30, 2019, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued a complaint against Christopher Matthew Klaiber (Klaiber) of Willow Wood, Ohio, for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, Oct. 3, 2019 – U.S. Department of Agriculture Deputy Under Secretary Scott Hutchins announced today that the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) has invested $11 million in research that will support specialty crop farmers.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
Release: By Alisha Coleman-Jensen. Food Assistance Branch, Economic Research Service. In 2018, food insecurity returned to the pre-recession level of 11.1 percent, last observed in 2007. It is down from 11.8 percent in 2017 and a high of 14.9 percent in 2011. USDA’s Economic Research Service recently released...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: WAPATO, WASHINGTON, Oct. 3, 2019-A map identifying the areas suitable for establishment of the spotted lanternfly (SLF) in the United States and other countries has been published in the Journal of Economic Entomology by Agricultural Research Service scientists.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
Release: By Tony Craddock, Jr. Public Affairs Specialist, Food and Nutrition Service. As we celebrate Farm to School Month this October, we can all feel the temperatures cooling down with the fall season. Here are seven ways USDA’s Farm to School Program can make your school and community ‘cooler’ throughout...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ohio Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge, Chair of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations, issued a statement Thursday in response to a proposal from the White House that would cut $4.5 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) is helping to arm the U.S. military with a solution to two major environmental problems: the disposal of paper waste and revegetating damaged training grounds.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 464,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2019/2020 marketing year.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, Oct. 1, 2019 — U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced the appointment of 20 members to serve on the Advisory Committee on Beginning Farmers and Ranchers (ACBFR). The newly appointed members serve terms of up to two years through 2021.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
Release: Washington, DC, Oct. 1, 2019 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture is announcing a proposed rule to modernize the way utility costs are factored in when states calculate a household’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: Washington - As part of its commitment to ensuring fair and competitive markets for the livestock, meat and poultry industries, on Sept. 18, 2019, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued a complaint against Scott Deters, doing business as Scott Deters Livestock Company (Scott Deters Livestock) of Corning, Kan., for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: Washington - As part of its commitment to ensuring fair and competitive markets for the livestock, meat and poultry industries, on Sept. 18, 2019, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued a complaint against Kyle Sorrels (Sorrels) of Arkansas, for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
Release: MANHATTAN, KANSAS, Oct. 1, 2019-Dr. Alfonso Clavijo has been appointed as Director of the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF), a state-of-the-art U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) research and diagnostic facility designed to protect the nation's agricultural systems and stakeholders ...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: MANHATTAN, KANSAS, Oct. 1, 2019-Dr. Alfonso Clavijo has been appointed as Director of the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF ), a state-of-the-art U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA ) research and diagnostic facility designed to protect the nation's agricultural systems and stakeholders against the threat and potential impact of serious animal diseases.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Commodity Credit Corporation today announced interest rates for October 2019, which are effective October 1-Oct. 31, 2019. The Commodity Credit Corporation borrowing rate-based charge for October is 1.750 percent, down from 1.875 percent in September.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, Sept. 30, 2019 – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development Donald “DJ” LaVoy today announced that USDA is investing $139 million in 56 projects to improve community facilities and provide essential services for 3.3 million rural residents in 23 states.
