U.S. Department of Agriculture
Recent News About U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Vilsack: USDA funding 'will help people in small towns, rural places and on Tribal lands build stronger communities and brighter futures'
Rural communities in eight states and Puerto Rico are getting a federal assist with immediate needs and in creating continuing economic development.
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Vilsack: Urban forestry grants provide benefits to people 'regardless of ZIP code or neighborhood'
Communities across the country have the opportunity to apply for part of $1 billion in grant funding to plant trees and increase green spaces in their urban areas.
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Vilsack: USDA committed to creating 'collaborative, service-oriented, mission-centered, healthy, and inclusive' workplace
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has been recognized as the "Most Improved" place to work among very large federal agencies in the Partnership for Public Service's 2022 Best Places to Work rankings.
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USDA: New soil-research buildings expertly designed for current research efforts'
A groundbreaking ceremony for a new research facility at a university in Alabama was held earlier this week to celebrate a partnership between the school and an agency in the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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Rice: 'The Rural Partners Network is bringing federal staff directly to rural communities'
The Rural Partners Network has been expanded to 17 communities across four additional states and Puerto Rico
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Vilsack: 'USDA has worked tirelessly to give farmers and ranchers a fair chance to compete'
The Biden-Harris administration is working to lower costs at the grocery story by both expanding and increasing competition in the meat and poultry processing industry through a historic investment.
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Moore: 'Agreement reflects our strong, long-standing relationship with the National Wild Turkey Federation'
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and the National Wild Turkey Federation signed a new, 20-year national master stewardship agreement.
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Bonnie: USDA works 'to support agriculture in the urban landscape'
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced a $14.2 million investment in 52 grants in 27 states for urban agriculture and innovative production to empower local communities.
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Moffitt: 'Grant programs provide crucial funding for projects, including farm to institution efforts'
Projects that expand and strengthen local and regional food systems got a boost Oct. 19 through grant awards of more than $64 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service.
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Vilsack: USDA 'announcement helps keep our farmers farming and provides a fresh start'
U.S. Department of Agriculture announced almost $800 million to distressed farm loan borrowers to keep farmers and ranchers producing.
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Vilsack: 'USDA has become a stronger partner to small and midsize farmers everywhere'
U.S. Department of Agriculture announced an $11.1 million loan under the Food Supply Chain Guaranteed Loan Program for Crystal Freeze Dry LLC in Iowa.
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Ute Tribal Business Commiittee: 'We cannot support a monument on our homelands that does not include the Tribe'
President Joe Biden's designation of Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument in the Colorado Rocky Mountain has been praised by veterans, conservation and other groups, but denounced by the Ute Tribe.
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Bronaugh: 'USDA celebrates the achievements and contributions that our Hispanic-serving Institutions'
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will fund $14 million to Hispanic-serving higher education institutions for Hispanic students studying agriculture and human science.
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Vilsack: Camp Hale monument preserves ‘this treasured piece of our national heritage’
A former U.S. Army training facility located deep in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado is now the country's newest national monument, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced this week.
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Vilsack: Berke has 'a clear and constant vision to improve the lives of rural Americans'
The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently announced President Joe Biden appointed Andy Berke to serve as the department's administrator of the Rural Utilities Service.
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Vilsack: 'Ensuring access to nutritious school meals is one of the best investments'
The United States Department of Agriculture recently provided $50 million in grants for schools to invest in new food service equipment that will allow them to serve more nutritious meals.
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Vilsack: 'USDA stands with our neighbors in Florida to continue to provide vital food assistance'
The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently announced low-income Floridians may be eligible to receive financial assistance to help them recover from the impacts of Hurricane Ian.
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Jacobs-Young: Georgia 'modernized facility will serve as the largest poultry research complex' in U.S.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service's laboratory in Georgia, announced earlier this week, is the nation's largest such complex.
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Smith: 'Herbaceous plants from the previous growing season were the best predictor of large range fires'
Scientists from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service and the University of Montana have developed a method to predict which of the Great Basin's more than 60 million acres are most likely to experience a large rangeland fire.
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Stabenow: 'As long as we have hunger and food insecurity in America, we have work to do'
U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture Chairwoman Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., said the country has made great strides in reducing hunger and food insecurity, but there's more work to be done.