By USDA Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Jacobs Village Farm satisfied a reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By USDA Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on three produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By USDA Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on three produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By USDA Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, Jan. 31, 2017 — As excitement for this year's Super Bowl grows, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) encourages consumers to use safe food handling practices at a championship level and avoid becoming one of the estimated 48 million Americans who gets sick from foodborne illnesses each year.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: BELTSVILLE, MD, Jan. 31, 2017-The U.S. Department of Agriculture 's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) is leading efforts to combat Lyme disease in the Old Line State. Agency scientists are working with the Howard County (Md.) Department of Recreation & Parks (DRP), and the University of Maryland to study new ways to control deer ticks. The size of a sesame seed, deer ticks-via the backs of mice and white-tailed deer-spread the bacteria that cause Lyme disease.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 31, 2017
News Release: U.S. House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Collin C. Peterson, D-Minn., today announced the Democratic Ranking Members and Subcommittee membership for the House Agriculture Committee’s six Subcommittees.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists identified 8 spinach varieties that have low oxalate levels, which is sometimes linked to better health. Oxalic acid, or "oxalate," is a naturally occurring plant chemical and in the human diet it's been linked to kidney stone formation. It also can react with calcium, iron, and other minerals to inhibit mineral absorption.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today announced the Committee will hold a business meeting to adopt the Committee funding resolution and Committee rules.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 30, 2017
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 105,000 metric tons of corn for delivery to Colombia during the 2016/2017 marketing year.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: New mobile phone applications ("apps") are helping farmers and land managers balance productivity with conservation. Known as the "Land-Potential Knowledge System" (LandPKS), the suite of apps identifies and delivers information about specific soils to anyone with a mobile phone, according to Jeff Herrick, a soil scientist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
Release: Bulgarian consumers now have online access to a variety of American food and beverage products thanks, in part, to the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) office in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia. The I america website, started by a team of young Bulgarian entrepreneurs, carries more than 200 U.S. brands and products new to the Bulgarian market, including soft drinks, condiments, candy, breakfast foods and snack items.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 141,224 metric tons of corn for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2016/2017 marketing year.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
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 its first field hearing of the 115th Congress in Manhattan, Kan., on the upcoming Farm Bill reauthorization.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON D.C.-Agricultural Research Service (ARS) geneticist Edward Buckler will receive the National Academy of Science 's first ever Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences for pioneering the use of large scale genomic approaches to associate genes with crop traits. This work gives plant breeders' faster access to key genes and reduces the time needed to improve critical traits enhancing food security.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 20, 2017
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 126,312 metric tons of corn for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2016/2017 marketing year.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, Jan. 19, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced four grants totaling more than $13.6 million to combat a scourge on the nation's citrus industry, citrus greening disease, aka Huanglongbing. The funding is made possible through NIFA's Specialty Crop Research Initiative (SCRI) Citrus Disease Research and Extension Program, authorized by the 2014 Farm Bill.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 110,400 metric tons of corn for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2016/2017 marketing year.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Collin Peterson today made the following statement on the announcement that Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue will be nominated to serve as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today released the following statement regarding President-Elect Donald Trump's selection of former Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue to be his nominee for Secretary of Agriculture...
