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Twenty-six projects were recent recipients of USDA’s latest round of Local Meat Capacity Grants – providing needed resources to add and upgrade equipment and improve efficiency. (Rod Bain and Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs Jenny Moffitt)
Gary Crawford’s creativity on display over a fifty-year career at USDA Radio illustrates a weaving of historical sounds and reports with humor and personalities to bring the stories of farm and food to listeners. (Rod Bain. General Dwight D. Eisenhower. ABC Radio News reporter George Hicks. Comedian...
A series of USDA grants were issued to projects under a set of local and regional food system development and promotion programs. (Rod Bain and Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs Jenny Moffitt)
Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs Jenny Moffitt shares award recipients of two programs as examples of project supported under the Local Agriculture Market Program.
Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs Jenny Moffitt explains an offering under the Local Agriculture Market Program (LAMP) focused on projects building regional food system partnerships.
An increasing number of examples of artificial intelligence in the world of agriculture are now visible. (Rod Bain and Charles Barron of Farmers Business Network)
Guidelines will facilitate the recognition of climate-smart agriculture within clean transportation fuel programs, creating new market opportunities for biofuel feedstock producers while enhancing climate benefits.
Growing up on a farm in Northeast Iowa taught me the values of resilience and innovation—qualities that have guided my work as USDA’s Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs. I reflect on the progress we have made in advancing U.S. agricultural exports and driving economic growth.
In 2022, Dr. Engil Pereira, professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV), participated in the E. Kika De La Garza (EKDLG) Fellowship with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) at the National Soil Survey Center in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Packers & Stockyards rules are part of a suite of new policies to give farmers better insight into key aspects of the agricultural system, from genetic components and pricing of seeds they purchase, to livestock market rates, so they can achieve fairer returns and plan better for their businesses.