News and reports from the Department of Agriculture.

Prestigious Conservation Planning Awards Presented at Annual CARCD Conference

It Takes A Village

NRCS in the Pacific Islands Area Announces Conservation Stewardship Program Signup

New City Neighbors brings Veges and Pizza to its Creston Neighborhood

USDA and State of Ohio Continue Conservation Successes with the Ohio Lake Erie CREP and Scioto River Watershed CREP

NRCS in Pacific Islands Area Accepting Applications from Producers, Landowners for the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program

Funding available from Indiana NRCS to help Western Lake Erie Basin farmers to improve water quality

APHIS Prohibits Imports of Fresh Bell Peppers (Capsicum annuum) from Spain due to Detections of Mediterranean Fruit Fly

APHIS Streamlines the Process for Updating Pest Regulation Lists

APHIS Amends Karnal Bunt (Tilletia indica) Regulated Areas in La Paz, Maricopa, and Pinal Counties in Arizona

The cooperative agreement announced this week between U.S. Department of Agriculture and Massachusetts to purchase local foods for school meal programs is helping build "a more resilient food system," an under secretary said in a news release

U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service entered into an agreement with Utah under the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program.

There were 15 notices published by the Agriculture Department in week ending Dec. 24, according to the Federal Register.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service signed a cooperative agreement with the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission through the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing service recently announced the Good Agricultural Practices toolkit.