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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, April 18, 2024
More than 60 Republican lawmakers have complained to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack about the timing of assistance from – and the methodology for – the 2022 Emergency Relief Program.
The Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program is funding 10-year awards for farmer-driven grants and grassroots education programs at five universities.
USDA should have planned better for staff attrition when it moved the Economic Research Service and National Institute of Food and Agriculture to Kansas City, Missouri, in 2019, the Government Accountability Office says in a new report that notes the department “minimally involved employees, Congress, and other key stakeholders in relocating the agencies.”
As Congress begins to craft the 2023 Farm Bill, USDA Undersecretary for Research, Education and Economics Chavonda Jacobs-Young explained the need to invest in research infrastructure and workforce development and make research more digestible and usable to agricultural producers.
A new Agriculture Department effort hopes to coordinate research and allow consumers to better leverage their meals to reduce — or even eliminate — their risk of diet-related diseases.
