Articles Tagged with ''USDA''

Eight years after ground was first broken for the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan, Kansas, government officials gathered Wednesday to celebrate the facility’s official opening.

House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Kay Granger on Tuesday postponed scheduled action on the fiscal 2024 Agriculture spending bill and three other measures, citing the ongoing negotiations with the White House over the debt ceiling limit.

Areas within USDA’s Rural Partners Network are set to benefit from a wide array of federal programs as the department rolls out almost $400 million to address longstanding poverty in the regions.

In all of agriculture the method of U.S. milk pricing is unmatched in complexity and inequity. Only expert dairy economists, a few U.S. Department of Agriculture personnel and a handful of industry experts can detail the antiquated rationale of federal milk pricing that has failed to keep pace with the technology, consumption patterns and use of farm milk in today’s economy.