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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
The fight over which government agency would be charged with regulating new cell-cultured meat looks to be pivoting to a discussion of how USDA and FDA might work together.
The heads of the USDA, FDA and EPA say they will be working in tandem to cut down on crops left unharvested and reduce the food that goes uneaten and into landfills every year.
Municipalities and academic institutions across the country are trying to persuade USDA to move the Economic Research Service and National Institute of Food and Agriculture to their communities.
Officials estimate Hurricane Michael caused billions of dollars in damage to crops, livestock and aquaculture after slamming into the Florida Panhandle Wednesday with 155 mile-per-hour winds and then plowing a path of destruction through Alabama and Georgia.
Vicki Christiansen was sworn in as the 19th chief of the United States Forest Service Thursday in Washington, where she pledged to lead a productive department that would offer a safe work environment for all.
USDA’s Innovation Center is making it easier for rural America to qualify for funding from the Office of Rural Development’s $222 billion loan portfolio and $36.6 billion in fiscal 2018 appropriated funds. It’s all part of an administration push to create more rural jobs and boost economic growth.
The average farmer probably won’t notice anytime soon that the 2014 farm bill has expired, but producers who try to sign up for some conservation programs could be turned away, and some commodity groups will have to go without some trade promotion funding on which they have counted.
USDA and the state of North Carolina are making it easier for participants in the WIC nutrition program to take advantage of their benefits in the wake of Hurricane Florence.
Employees of the Economic Research Service and National Institute of Food and Agriculture should know by January where their new offices will be, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue told the top lawmakers on the Senate Agriculture Committee in a letter obtained by Agri-Pulse today.
