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Availability of Low-Interest Physical Loss Loans for Producers Affected by Natural Disasters in Montana

News Release: Physical loss loans can help producers repair or replace damaged or destroyed physical property essential to the success of the agricultural operation, including livestock losses. Examples of property commonly affected include essential farm buildings, fixtures to real estate, equipment, livestock, perennial crops, fruit and nut bearing trees and harvested or stored crops and hay.


Availability of Low-Interest Physical Loss Loans for Producers Affected by Natural Disasters in Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri and Texas

News Release: Physical loss loans can help producers repair or replace damaged or destroyed physical property essential to the success of the agricultural operation, including livestock losses. Examples of property commonly affected include essential farm buildings, fixtures to real estate, equipment, livestock, perennial crops, fruit and nut bearing trees and harvested or stored crops and hay.


USDA Designates Nine Massachusetts Counties as Primary Natural Disaster Areas

News Release: This Secretarial natural disaster designation allows the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans. Emergency loans can be used to meet various recovery needs including...


Agriculture Committee and the bills it addressed on Aug. 30

There was activity on one bill related to the Agriculture Committee on Aug. 30.


Release: Washington, D.C., Aug. 31, 2022 The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has partnered with 42 states and territories across the country to provide summer food buying benefits to families with children. These states and territories will provide an estimated $12.5 billion in temporary nutrition benefits to approximately 32 million children.


Statement from FAS Administrator Daniel Whitley Regarding Weekly Export Sales Reporting

News Release: WASHINGTON, Aug. 31, 2022 USDA Foreign Agricultural Service Administrator Daniel Whitley issued the following statement today regarding weekly export sales reporting.




Availability of Low-Interest Physical Loss Loans for Producers Affected by Natural Disasters in Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri and Texas

News Release: Physical loss loans can help producers repair or replace damaged or destroyed physical property essential to the success of the agricultural operation, including livestock losses. Examples of property commonly affected include essential farm buildings, fixtures to real estate, equipment, livestock, perennial crops, fruit and nut bearing trees and harvested or stored crops and hay.



USDA Designates Two Kentucky Counties as Primary Natural Disaster Areas

News Release: This Secretarial natural disaster designation allows the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans. Emergency loans can be used to meet various recovery needs including...


USDA Designates Six Tennessee Counties as Primary Natural Disaster Areas

News Release: This Secretarial natural disaster designation allows the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans. Emergency loans can be used to meet various recovery needs including...


“EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, ETC.” published by the Congressional Record  on Aug. 26

“EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, ETC.“ was published in the House section on page H7726 on Aug. 26


The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on Aug. 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


There was activity on one bill related to the Agriculture Committee on Aug. 29.


Ranking Member Boozman’s Annual Arkansas Agriculture Tour Kicks-off on Monday

News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, is launching his annual Ag Tour next week, kicking off the week-long highlight of Arkansas agriculture operations on Monday in Fayetteville.


Release: In 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) responded to the unprecedented challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic on trade by allowing importers of plant commodities to upload copies of phytosanitary certificates ...


There are three releases scheduled to be published on Aug. 31.


News Release: WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Commissioners Christy Goldsmith Romero and Summer Mersinger got a firsthand look at the Blockchain Center of Excellence at the University of Arkansas today while discussing a path forward to bring more consumer protection to the crypto industry.


USDA-FS grant application closes on Oct. 3

FY2024 Forest Legacy Program grant opened on Aug. 30.