Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has appointed six members to serve on the National Mango Board for three-year terms beginning Jan. 1, 2017, and ending Dec. 31, 2019. The members include…
New National Offshore Wind Strategy to Drive Deployment
Joint Strategy Follows Completion of America’s First Offshore Wind Farm, Showing Progress in American Offshore Wind Industry U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally…
Investment to Spur Agricultural Innovation
Matching Contributions by Public and Private Partners Bring Total Investment to $59 Million for 45 Projects to Address Water Quality and Other Conservation Concerns Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the…
Food Insecurity in the United States
Statement from Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on the Significant Decrease in Household Food Insecurity in the United States Vilsack Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack issued the following statement on the release…
National Chicken Month
…Foods, Claxton Poultry Farms, Fieldale Farms, Gold Kist, Gold n’ Plump Poultry, Hormel Always Tender, Mountaire Farms, Pennfield Farms, Perdue Farms, Sanderson Farms and Tyson Foods. Recipes using the sponsor…
Women in Agriculture Trade Mission is Underway
Deputy Undersecretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services Alexis Taylor is leading a trade delegation to Hong Kong and Shanghai through September 15. It’s part of an effort to extend…
R&D Investments for Small Businesses
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that 76 small businesses around the country will receive $7.4 million in grants to conduct research related to food security, natural resources, and agricultural issues….
California State Organic Program
…is committed to continued improvement of its service to the California organic community. In recognition of this, CDFA Secretary Karen Ross convened the Organic Stakeholder Working Group (Working Group) in…
U.S. Senators Urge Investigation into Canada’s Dairy-Pricing Policies
…pricing program. The Senators sent a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack alleging Canada’s program punishes processors in Canada for the use of imported…
Agri View: Drone Rules
…jobs, gather information, and deploy disaster relief,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx. “We look forward to working with the aviation community to support innovation, while maintaining our standards as…
USDEC, NMPF Laud Senators for Urging Investigation
…Trade Representative Michael Froman and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Schumer and Baldwin expressed concern about Canada’s recently announced National Ingredients Strategy and its already active Ontario Class VI pricing program….
USDA Sharply Revises Farm Income Forecasts
…farm income for 2015 was revised up significantly to $80.7 billion, an increase of 43 percent from the numbers released in February. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said the forecast highlights…
Support for the Salton Sea
…Annual Lake Tahoe Summit on climate and conservation challenges, Deputy Secretary of the Interior Michael Connor and State of California Natural Resources Secretary John Laird signed a Memorandum of Understanding…
Agriculture Secretary Vilsack on Farm Income Forecasts
Vilsack Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack issued the following statement on the Farm Income and Financial Forecasts for 2015 and 2016, released by USDA’s Economic Research Service. “Today’s farm income forecast…