USDA Announces New Grants to Help Communities Meet Water Challenges in Coming Years

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…initiative to provide solutions to agricultural water challenges. The grants will be used to develop management practices, technologies and tools for farmers, ranchers, forest owners and citizens to improve water…

Statement from Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on the 2012 Census of Agriculture Preliminary Results

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…and ranchers. A bright spot in the data is the slight increase in young farmers and the stable number of small farms and large-scale farms. This reflects our work to…

Gov. Brown, Legislative Leaders Announce Emergency Drought Legislation

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…California Department of Food and Agriculture launched a drought website to help farmers, ranchers and farmworkers find resources and assistance programs that may be available to them during the drought….

Vilsack: “We Are Clearly Paying Attention to this Situation”

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…assistance being made available to farmers and ranchers for drought assistance. For Secretary Vilsack’s entire one-on-one discussion with Sabrina Hill, CLICK HERE. CLICK HERE to watch Agriculture Secretary Vilsack’s comments…

Federal Drought Aid Coming to California; Long Term Solution Sought

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…week to help ranchers. For example, if their fields have dried up, this is going to help them feed their livestock. “Second, last week, we announced $20 million to help…

President Obama Speaks on Drought

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…and announced new actions to help. Accelerating $100 million from the Farm Bill signed last week to help ranchers Last week announced $20 million to help hard hit communities. Today…

Farm Leader Welcomes National Focus on Drought

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Continuing coverage of President Barack Obama’s visit to the Central Valley As farmers and ranchers across California continue to feel the effects of the worst drought on record, the president…