By USDA Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: Washington - U.S. Department of Agriculture Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs Greg Ibach today announced up to $177.4 million in purchases for nutrition assistance programs using a new streamlined process. The American-grown products that will be purchased will be provided to families in need through USDA’s nutrition assistance programs.
By USDA Newswire | May 23, 2018
Release: Under NEPA, agencies create their own implementing procedures that specify which agency actions or activities may require an environmental impact statement (EIS), an environmental assessment (EA), and which are categorically excluded from the need to conduct an EIS or an EA. Since APHIS issued the current ...
By USDA Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: A never-before-described gene that gives rice resistance to a disease that has been costing about $66 billion a year in global damage has been isolated by a team of scientists led by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) plant pathologist Yulin Jia.
By USDA Newswire | May 22, 2018
News Release: “My message to rural America is always the same: President Trump hears you and is working to make your life better.” Trump Administration Stands Behind Ag Producers By Secretary Sonny Perdue Omaha World-Herald May 20, 2018 … Throughout my travels, I’ve heard from the people living in rural America about ...
By USDA Newswire | May 22, 2018
News Release: Every spring, ranchers face the same difficult challenge-trying to guess how much grass will be available for livestock to graze during the upcoming summer. Now an innovative new Grassland Productivity Forecast or "Grass-Cast" has published its first forecast to help producers in the Northern Great Plains reduce this economically important source of uncertainty.
By USDA Newswire | May 22, 2018
Release: Susan Jay of Fornazor International tells USDA Radio that her company’s success in selling to 40 foreign countries is due in large part to assistance from USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service. Not only did FAS help the Hillsdale, N.J. company get into foreign markets, but Jay says FAS helps Fornazor build its existing presence in those markets.
By USDA Newswire | May 21, 2018
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on two produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By USDA Newswire | May 18, 2018
Release: 970-494-7410WASHINGTON, May 18, 2018 - The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) confirmed the presence of virulent Newcastle disease in a small flock of backyard exhibition chickens in Los Angeles County, California. It is important to note ...
By USDA Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: “It’s unfortunate the Republicans chose to take this path, and it’s clear from their inability to get the necessary votes from within their own caucus that there are internal fractures they have to contend with. But this is a good opportunity for us to return to the table and fix this bill before we...
By USDA Newswire | May 18, 2018
Release: Washington - Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By USDA Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today made the following statement after the People’s Republic of China moved to end an anti-dumping and countervailing investigation on U.S. sorghum imports.
By USDA Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C., May 17, 2018) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today applauded the removal of a burdensome regulation that has long plagued family farms. The rule requiring producers to obtain Data Universal Number System (DUNS) and System for Award Management (SAM) numbers to participate ...
By USDA Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, May 17, 2018 -- Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue today announced the appointment of three producers and three industry representatives to serve on the Peanut Standards Board. All appointees will serve the remainder of three-year terms ending June 30, 2020.
By USDA Newswire | May 17, 2018
Release: Global trade shows are a great way for small businesses to meet multiple foreign customers in a short period of time. Susan Jay of Fornazor International says USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service has helped her participate in trade shows where she has made hundreds of contacts over the years. Additionally, the international success of the Hillsdale, N.J. has company local communities in the U.S...
By USDA Newswire | May 17, 2018
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 132,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2017/2018 marketing year.
By USDA Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue today announced the appointment of three producers and three industry representatives to serve on the Peanut Standards Board. All appointees will serve the remainder of three-year terms ending June 30, 2020.
By USDA Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: Washington - U.S. Department of Agriculture Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs Ted McKinney will lead a trade mission to Guangzhou and Shenzhen, China, May 21-May 25, accompanied by a diverse delegation of agribusiness and state government leaders looking to establish new business connections in southern China.
By USDA Newswire | May 16, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, May 16, 2018 - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue today announced the appointment of 14 members to serve two-year terms on the Plant Variety Protection Board. Two alternate members were also appointed.
By USDA Newswire | May 16, 2018
News Release: Funding Supports Infrastructure, Schools, Libraries, Municipal Centers, Opioid Treatment, Prevention and Recovery, and Other Community Needs WASHINGTON, May 16, 2018 – Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Anne Hazlett today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $243 million in 50 rural community facility projects in 22 states.
By USDA Newswire | May 16, 2018
News Release: Statement by Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Collin C. Peterson.
