Articles Tagged with ''usda''

Stung by scenes of farmers dumping milk and plowing under crops, the Trump administration is launching a never-before-tried plan to use the nation’s commercial food distributors to buy fresh produce, dairy products and meat and give them away to needy families across the country.

A new program created in the 2018 farm bill aims to help land-grant colleges and universities do more to help American Indian students.

Crop producers will have more time to verify their organic acreage for crop insurance under a loosened regulatory regime rolled out earlier this week by USDA’s Risk Management Agency.

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by a community advocacy group and a worker at Smithfield’s Milan, Mo., pork plant, finding the company has taken “significant steps … to reduce the risk of a COVID-19 outbreak at the plant.”

Bernhard Kowatsch, Head of the World Food Programme (WFP) Innovation Accelerator, discusses the different types of innovations that are needed to insure global food assistance programs remain open and running.

The door’s open. For the first time, the Small Business Administration is taking applications from farms for grants of up to $10,000 and low-interest loans through the Economic Injury Disaster Loan program.

The USDA announced Monday that it will be spending an additional $470 million this year to purchase a wide variety of ag products, sparking cheers from farm groups and lawmakers.

The full Senate returns to Washington for the first time since March, setting the stage for a partisan battle over the next big coronavirus aid bill and a growing list of requests from agriculture and other sectors for relief.

In this opinion piece, Mike Brown, president of the National Chicken Council, explains the economic hardships chicken producers are currently facing.

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue says meatpacking plants will be going back into operation through this weekend and into early next week.