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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has filled several key staff positions, naming a new director of intergovernmental affairs and a staff director for the Natural Resources Conservation Service.
A key House lawmaker defended the tightening of work requirements in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program as a way to reduce federal spending, in an interview on Agri-Pulse Newsmakers.
The farm bill commodity title is the focus of discussions in Orlando this week at Commodity Classic, the annual meeting of grain and soybean producers.
USDA-FNS authorized $3 million to Auburn University’s Hunger Solutions Institute to work with six retailers in Alabama, California, Georgia and South Dakota to implement at 116 locations its Healthy Fluid Milk Incentives Projects to encourage increased consumption of healthy dairy products.
A new investment of nearly $2 billion from the Commodity Credit Corporation will help fund school meals and food banks, and promote the purchase of U.S.-grown foods.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack highlighted the importance of ensuring schoolchildren have enough good food and nutrition to fuel their learning and previewed the upcoming White House hunger conference at a Washington, D.C., elementary school Friday.
The nation's top ag official will participate in a “Fireside Chat” with a former central coast congressman as part of a CSU Monterey Bay webinar introducing students to programs and jobs at USDA.
A new study from the Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service shows many recipients of federal nutrition benefits still encounter issues in their efforts to eat a healthy diet.
