Tag: USDA
The gift that keeps on giving
If you’re an ag-dependent advertising agency, a commodity organization hired hand or an ag journalist who can’t do math, commodity checkoffs are a gift...
Animal disease traceability meetings scheduled
COLUMBUS — Many Ohio livestock producers are subject to requirements under the new Animal Disease Traceability rule implemented by USDA. The goal of the...
USDA extending haying, grazing of cover crops
WASHINGTON — The USDA recently announced due to cold and wet weather in many states it is providing Approved Insurance Providers the option to...
USDA to prepare environmental impact statements for GE crops
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service plans to prepare two separate environmental impact statements to better inform...
Ohio elevator, Pa. beef group receive USDA value-added producer grants
The Keystone Beef Marketing Network and the Deshler Farmers Elevator Company, Henry County, Ohio, were two recipients of 110 grants to agricultural producers and rural businesses announced by the USDA.
USDA says farm payments set to resume
WASHINGTON — The USDA’s Farm Service Agency administrator, Juan M. Garcia, announced recently that farm payments, which had been temporarily suspended due to sequestration,...
Conservation Stewardship Program back on track due to passage of funding...
WASHINGTON — A bill to fund the federal government for the remaining six months of fiscal year 2013 is now awaiting the president’s signature.
The...
Congress: No meat inspector furlough
SALEM, Ohio — The federal budget sequester that became effective March 1 still stands, but it looks like the meat industry is safe, according...
USDA finalizes new program that provides microloans to qualified producers
MEMPHIS, Jan. 15, 2013--Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack recently announced a new microloan program from the USDA designed to help small and family operations, beginning...
Ohio farm markets get share of $9 million
CLEVELAND -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture released more than $9 million in grants to organizations across 39 states bolster the connection between farmers...
