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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, October 20, 2024
The Department of Agriculture plans to reexamine how the agency substantiates claims such as “raised without antibiotics” and “free-range” that companies use to market their meat and poultry products.
USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service is accepting applications from higher education institutions to conduct soil science research and improve regional surveys.
Gregg Doud has been tapped as the next president and CEO of the National Milk Producers Federation and Roberta Wagner has been named senior vice president of regulatory and scientific affairs at the International Dairy Foods Association.
USDA is distributing almost $714 million for broadband connectivity projects through the fourth round of the ReConnect Program, an announcement that will direct loan and grant funding to 33 projects across the country.
The Agriculture Department has agreed to enroll 1.07 million acres in the Conservation Reserve Fund this year out of the 1.19 million acres offered by landowners under general signup rules.
In this opinion piece, the president and CEO of the American Frozen Food Institute Alison Bodor discusses the importance of allowing frozen fruit and vegetable products in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
U.S. soybean acreage has increased 18 percent – from 74 to 87 million - in the last twenty years. Soybean acreage grew at a faster rate than corn during the same period.
USDA is bringing on six individuals who will hold senior staff positions and promoting two at the department and President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Jeffrey Prescott as the U.S. representative to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture and Summer Mersinger as commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.