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The assistance includes $143 million for crop losses to Hurricane Milton and other natural disasters.
The National Institute of Food and Agriculture’s Organic Agriculture Program is investing in 30 organic agriculture projects.
Funding is available right now to help producers address on-farm energy use and increase efficiency.
Effective July 1, herds larger than the trigger levels will be required to have 180 days of manure storage, up from the current 120-day limit.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today commemorated the one year anniversary of an historic agreement to help U.S. dairy producers cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Solar panels lead the way, USDA’s first-ever nationwide renewable energy survey shows.
Just over a month ago, the Department of Agriculture announced that it will allow American farmers to plant a genetically engineered version of alfalfa. The news also sparked an angry debate among organic advocates about what’s most important in the organic label.
Groups tell Congress that historically tight supplies of grains and oilseeds make program change imperative.
If seasonally calved and housed outside year round, HoJos will produce 6% fewer greenhouse gases.
New Mexico State University is partnering with Texas A&M and other universities across the country on a $9.75 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to research bovine respiratory disease and how to reduce its prevalence in beef and dairy cattle.
Twelve Pennsylvania dairy producers will join peers from 11 other states in a large-scale project funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to help farmers reduce greenhouse gases produced by manure.
USDA and World Wildlife Fund join the panel that will judge the newly launched awards program.
Western United Dairymen wants leaders of the House and Senate agriculture committees to support funding for the USDA Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP).
Funding for the biodigesters is provided through the USDA Rural Energy for America Program (REAP).
The USDA’s new forecast for retail grocery inflation in 2022 tops 10%, close to three times the 3.5% inflation rate in 2021.
The USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service has awarded a total of $72.9 million in the fiscal year 2022 Specialty Crop Block Grant Program funding.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced the availability of approximately $400 million to provide services through USDA’s new Regional Food Business Centers.
A new genetically modified purple tomato has received a green light from the USDA.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office has found some problems with the USDA’s handling of the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program.
The USDA has announced it will provide close to $2 billion in additional funding to food banks and school meal programs for purchasing American-grown foods.
The passage of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act in 2010 resulted in major updates in school meal nutrition standards that have translated to substantial gains in governmental fruit and vegetable purchases.
The USDA has drafted a pest risk assessment for the importation of fresh Hass avocados from Guatemala.
Specialty crop growers have nearly doubled their participation in federal risk management programs over the past ten years, according to a new report from the USDA’s Economic Research Service.
USDA grant supports research on how farmers can harness ecology in organic cropping systems at Purdue, University of Wisconsin and Western Illinois University.
The government of Canada is taking public comments on a proposed regulation to ban some single-use plastic items.
The USDA is terminating the marketing order regulating the handling of potatoes grown in Washington state.
Potato-producing states held 198 million hundredweight, or cwt, in storage on Feb. 1, down 3% from the same date a year ago, according to the USDA.
The USDA said it is warning vendors who wish to participate in USDA food purchase programs of a possible phishing scheme.
California ranks tops among all states in USDA fruit purchases and second in vegetable purchases, according to a new report from the USDA.
The Government of New Zealand has asked USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service to authorize the importation of fresh pepper for consumption into the U.S. and territories.