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More than 41 million people in the United States speak Spanish at home, and Spanish is the most spoken language after English in the country. Cooperative Extension across the nation recognizes the importance of providing resources in Spanish to better serve Hispanic communities and people.

This week, we celebrate National 4-H Week and the incredible impact the organization offers young people around the country. At the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), we pay special tribute to this observance as the 4-H Youth Development program is headquartered in USDA’s National Institute of...

USDA’s AMS publishes weekly retail reports on grocery store prices nationwide. Recently, reports on red meats, poultry, and eggs moved to the My Market News platform, offering customizable data as part of AMS’s modernization efforts.

USDA’s Agriculture in the Classroom Program helps improve agricultural literacy, awareness, knowledge, and appreciation for more than 60,000 K-12 teachers and their nearly 5 million students.

The Southern NASS region, covering AL, FL, GA, and SC, has 144,000 farms, shaping its agriculture, hospitality, and comfort food culture.

Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio were all in the top 10 states for producers under age 35 (young producers) as a percent of total state producers.

The National HEP/CAMP Association partners with the USDA to provide students from farmworker backgrounds a paid, 10-week internship in Washington, D.C.

Northeast Regional Equity Convening hosted by the USDA and the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture

For nearly 20 years, Dr. Jennie L. Stephens has been a champion in breaking down barriers so that families can build generational wealth and grow working landscapes with their inherited property. South Carolina’s Center for Heirs’ Property Preservation (CHPP™), where Equity Commission Agriculture...

Nichole Espineli, a master's student at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, draws on her experience with food insecurity to work with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.