Articles Tagged with ''Foreign Agricultural Service''

Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue announced Monday evening that USDA is going to extend the Farmers to Families Food Box Program to a fifth round, this one worth $1.5 billion.

Exports of U.S. soybeans to China started off the new 2020-21 marketing year strong, and the latest USDA weekly sales data show the pace of trade is heating up.

President Trump used Thursday’s daily coronavirus briefing to offer some reassurance to farmers.

Congressional leaders have reached agreement on a $2 trillion economic rescue package that would replenish the Agriculture Department’s Commodity Credit Corp. authority and earmark additional money for livestock and specialty crop producers as well as local agriculture.

USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service confirmed a sale of 612,000 metric tons of U.S. soybeans to China for the 2018-19 marketing year.