Tag: USDA
Ohioans can help find Asian longhorned beetles
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is urging Ohioans to check their trees for Asian longhorned beetles or signs of the insects this August.
USDA invests to boost school nutrition
USDA will award nearly $30 million to 264 school districts across 44 states and the District of Columbia as part of its Healthy Meals Incentives Initiative.
USDA to provide more assistance to distressed loan borrowers
USDA will begin providing additional, automatic financial assistance for qualifying guaranteed Farm Loan Programs borrowers who are facing financial risk.
Financial assistance applications open for USDA farm loan borrowers who have...
Financial assistance applications are open for farmers, ranchers and forest landowners who experienced discrimination in USDA farm lending programs.
New USDA grant program to boost ways to get organic products...
Through the Organic Market Development Grant Program up to $75 million will fund projects to improve markets for domestically-produced organic goods.
USDA investing $40M in Appalachian Ohio
The goal of the Appalachian Regional Food Business Center, created in partnership with Rural Action, is to build resilient local and regional food systems.
Lady Buggs Pharm honors ancestral ties to plants and nature
Lady Buggs Pharm honors ancestral ties to her urban garden which grows traditional fruits and vegetables as well as medicinal plants.
Winter wheat planting up in Ohio, Pennsylvania in 2023
More land planted in winter wheat in Ohio than there has been in a decade, and it is the most winter wheat planted in Pennsylvania since the 1970s.
Ohio soybean production hits record high in 2022
Soybean production hit a record high in Ohio last year, but corn production was down in the state, as well as across the nation, according to a USDA report.
USDA pumps another $325 million into “climate-smart” farming
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced another $325 million for “climate-smart” farming projects, bringing the total funding for the new Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities program to over $3 billion.
