Items Tagged with 'child nutrition'

The Agriculture Department says it will partially fund SNAP benefits for November using a contingency fund and won't supplement that money from other sources.

Congressional leaders released a massive year-end bill Tuesday that would provide $3.7 billion in disaster aid for farmers and enact the Growing Climate Solutions Act to facilitate ag carbon markets.

Congressional negotiators are nearing agreement on a massive year-end bill that’s expected to include billions in agricultural disaster aid as well as a compromise version of the Growing Climate Solutions Act and special aid to rice growers.

Flavored milk can stay on the menu in schools for the time being under a transitional rule being issued today by USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service.