By USDA Newswire | Apr 24, 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 held a hearing titled, “The State of Rural America."
By USDA Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry, today released the following opening statement - as prepared for delivery - at the hearing titled “The State of Rural America" featuring Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today welcomed the Committee’s newest member, Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith from Mississippi.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: BELTSVILLE, MARYLAND, April 23, 2018-The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA ) is partnering in the Earth BioGenome Project (EBP ), biology's version of the moonshot, an effort that will yield millions of powerful new solutions to agriculture's challenges.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Collin Peterson (D-MN) sent a letter to President Trump today expressing concern that Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt is inappropriately issuing waivers to fuel refiners in order to undermine the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: April 18, 2018 - As mandated in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, seed cotton is now a covered commodity under the Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC) programs effective for the 2018 crop year. As a result, producers with generic base acres will be allowed to convert to cotton...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C., April 19, 2018) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced the selection of senior leaders in several U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) agencies. Perdue appointed Ken Isley as Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) Administrator, Joel Baxley as Rural Housing Service ...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
Release: A systems approach is a series of measures taken by growers, packers, and shippers that, in combination, minimize pest risks prior to importation into the United States. In this case, the systems approach requires the establishment of pest-free places of production, labeling of boxes prior to shipping, ...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 19, 2018
News Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced the selection of Joel Baxley as Rural Housing Service Administrator. Baxley has built a long career in housing finance and real estate issues.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: In Wednesday’s hearing to mark up the House Agriculture Committee’s partisan Agriculture and Nutrition Act (H.R. 2), Ranking Member Collin Peterson addressed the threats facing American farmers following the Administration’s actions on trade, and the need for certainty given a potentially significant...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C., April 18, 2018) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today issued the following statement regarding approval of the 2018 Farm Bill by the House Committee on Agriculture: “I commend Chairman Conaway and the House Committee on Agriculture for passing a comprehensive Farm Bill ...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C., April 18, 2018) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today issued the following statement regarding China’s announcement of duties of almost 179 percent on U.S. sorghum imports: “The international grain market is about the freest market there is, and it is ludicrous to even ...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: GRAND FORKS, NORTH DAKOTA, April 18, 2018-Here's a thought to chew on before you toss out that unfinished meal or oddly shaped fruit or vegetable: U.S. consumers waste nearly a pound of food per person per day. So says a study published today by a team of Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and university scientists in the journal PLOS ONE.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Arizona Marketing Produce Distributors Inc. satisfied a reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By USDA Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: -As Prepared for Delivery-. “Mr. Chairman, this is a flawed bill that is the result of a bad and nontransparent process. I oppose it and urge my colleagues on the Committee to oppose it as well. More than nine months ago, we began discussions on a bipartisan farm bill. I saw this process as a way to...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today issued the following statement regarding the House Agriculture Committee passage of H.R. 2 - Agriculture & Nutrition Act of 2018...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON -Today, U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), joined Agriculture Committee members U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) to urge the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to review the proposed purchase of National Beef Packing Co. by a Brazilian meat company.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Anne Hazlett visited the Prescribed to Death opioid memorial today at President’s Park. The exhibit features 22,000 pills memorializing the 22,000 Americans who died of a prescription drug overdose in 2016.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 16, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., today announced the Committee will hold a hearing titled, “The State of Rural America."
By USDA Newswire | Apr 14, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C., April 14, 2018) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today applauded President Donald J. Trump’s selection of James Hubbard to be the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment. Following the announcement, Secretary Perdue ...
