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Children and adults who receive meals as part of the National Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) will get more whole grains and fruits and vegetables, and less added sugars and solid fats, under changes announced today by USDA@s Food and Nutrition Service.

The head of the American Farm Bureau Federation says agriculture producers across the country need to @wave a flag@ to alert government officials to a possible crisis caused by delays in processing visas for foreign workers who tend and harvest America@s food crops.

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The USDA continues to move aggressively to finish work on a rule that would establish new regulations under the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) on poultry and livestock marketing practices despite efforts on Capitol Hill to block it, Agriculture Secr

Kevin M. Folta, a University of Florida molecular biologist who specializes in better strawberries but who became the target of anti-biotech crusaders for articulating the benefits of biotechnology, is the 2016 winner of the annual Borlaug CAST Communications Award by the Council o

USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack will be in Japan this weekend to meet with agriculture ministers from the G-7 group of major industrialized nations. But, in an exclusive interview with Agri-Pulse, Vilsack says a lot of his time will be devoted to keeping the Trans-Pacific Partne

Citrus growers will soon have access to $22 million in USDA grant funding to research citrus greening disease € the pathogen that has devastated citrus production in Florida.

Senate Democrats again successfully protected the Obama administration€s embattled Clean Water Act rule, defeating a GOP attempt to stop the measure the measure from being implemented should it survive court challenges. A 56-42 vote on an amendment to block the €waters of the

Regardless of the cause of a power outage, the €cooperative difference makes all the difference€ in planning for and responding to major service disruptions, Claverack Rural Electric Cooperative President and CEO Bobbi Kilmer told a congressional panel recently.