By USDA Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: Washington - On Dec. 18, 2018, Dwaine Miller, waived his right to a hearing, entered into a stipulation agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and paid a penalty of $1,400 for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
Release: Washington -FAS Program Announcement FAS-ESR-011-19, issued at 9:00am on February 28th, which announced export sales of 133,000 metric tons of corn for delivery to South Korea during the 2018/2019 marketing year was issued in error. The correct announcement is as follows.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 4, 2019
News Release: Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) virus spreads much more aggressively in pigs than previous research suggests, according to a new study by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA ) scientists.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 4, 2019
News Release: Washington -Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue today announced the appointment of Darrell Scott Johnson, San Francisco, Calif., to the Cotton Board with a term ending Dec. 31, 2020, to fill a vacant member seat.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 4, 2019
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 100,500 metric tons of corn for delivery to Colombia during the 2018/2019 marketing year.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 4, 2019
News Release: Washington - U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Under Secretary Bill Northey today announced that David M. Warner was sworn in to serve as the Director of External Affairs for USDA’s Farm Production and Conservation (FPAC) mission area.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed a Notice to Show Cause and complaint under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) against CKF Produce Corp. (CKF). The company, operating from New York, allegedly failed to make payment to 22 produce sellers in the amount of $916,442 from March 2017 through November 2018. USDA asserts that CKF is unfit to be licensed under PACA due to the alleged violations.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed a Notice to Show Cause and complaint under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) against CKF Produce Corp. (CKF). The company, operating from New York, allegedly failed to make payment to 22 produce sellers in the amount of $916,442 from March 2017 through November 2018. USDA asserts that CKF is unfit to be licensed under PACA due to the alleged violations.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Commodity Credit Corporation, today, announced interest rates for March 2019, which are effective March 1 - March 31, 2019. The Commodity Credit Corporation borrowing rate-based charge for March is 2.625 percent, the same as 2.625 percent in February.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
Release: Washington, D.C., March 1, 2019 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is proposing to allow public review and comment on the protocols for deregulating fields previously infested with pale cyst nematode (PCN). These procedural changes would make the field deregulation process more transparent by giving the public the opportunity to participate in its development.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: ARS molecular biologist Elizabeth Ainsworth was honored with the National Academy of Science's Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences for her groundbreaking research to show how crops such as corn and soybeans are affected by increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide and ozone, which is part of the latest issue of the Agricultural Research Service's (ARS) Food and Nutrition Research Briefs.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue today announced the appointment of seven members and ten alternates to serve on the U.S. Highbush Blueberry Council.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: (Washington, D.C., Feb. 28, 2019) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today reiterated during a U.S. Senate hearing the need to restore the original intent of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which is to be a second chance and not a way of life. Secretary Perdue’s comments ...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C., Feb. 28, 2019 – U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced today that a World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement panel found that China has provided trade distorting domestic support to its grain producers well in excess ...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: More than 6,200 customers will benefit from improved or new service WASHINGTON, Feb. 28, 2019 – Acting Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Joel Baxley today announced that USDA is investing $122 million to expand and upgrade rural electric systems in Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Oklahoma and South Dakota. The funding includes more than $7 million to finance smart grid technologies to improve system operations and monitor grid security.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: Washington - Acting Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Joel Baxley today announced that USDA is investing $122 million (PDF, 91 KB) to expand and upgrade rural electric systems in Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Oklahoma and South Dakota. The funding includes more than $7 million to finance smart grid technologies to improve system operations and monitor grid security.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: (Feb. 28, 2019) - House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin C. Peterson of Minnesota issued a statement Thursday following the World Trade Organization’s ruling in favor of the United States in its complaint alleging unfair subsidies for Chinese rice and wheat producers. The complaint, initiated...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
Release: Washington, DC, Feb. 28, 2019 - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today reiterated during a U.S. Senate hearing the need to restore the original intent of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which is to be a second chance and not a way of life. Secretary Perdue’s comments...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: Contact: Press@oc.usda.gov. Washington, D.C., Feb. 28, 2019 - U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced today that a World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement panel found that China has provided trade distorting domestic support to its grain...
