…pandemic. By investing in education and workforce development at these institutions, we are training the workforce of the future to develop long-lasting solutions to these and other critical agricultural issues…
USDA: Adult Obesity Increased During Pandemic
…pandemic exacerbated an already existing adult obesity epidemic. As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded in 2020, studies using limited online surveys found evidence of weight gain among U.S. adults. However, because…
Keep Kids Fed Act Passed in Both Chambers of Congress
…taken action to provide much needed support to help USDA’s child nutrition programs serve nutritious meals to America’s children. Throughout the pandemic, the school nutrition professionals who feed our children…
Specialty Crop Producers to Receive Food Safety Assistance from USDA
…Secretary Thomas J. Vilsack. “The ongoing economic challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic have created substantial financial challenges for small and very small producers to meet regulatory requirements and access…
House Agriculture Committee Discusses Dairy Farm Bill Programs
…farmers and the American people.” He said the pandemic proved the need for such programs. “Nothing made the importance of this safety net more apparent than the COVID-19 pandemic. We…
Organic Industry Survey Shows $1.4 Billion Sales Growth in 2021
…percent fell from the significant growth of 12 percent that was largely due to the shift in buying trends seen during the height of the COVID pandemic in 2020. “In…
Stabenow on Senate Ag Committee Work
…by Tom Fisk on Pexels.com Stabenow said a lesson was learned from the COVID pandemic about having too much dependency on products from overseas. “I can tell you from the…
Vilsack Gives Details on Food Supply Chain Plans
…the pandemic. Food Processing The pandemic highlighted challenges within the middle of the food supply chain. Consolidated processing capacity created supply bottlenecks, which led to a drop in effective plant…
Agricultural Education Podcast Helps Foster Community of Teachers
…to the pandemic. This small project quickly grew into a resource used by agriculture teachers to help each other develop stronger teaching methods and improve their agriculture programs. “Our biggest…
Details on Lower Restaurant Spending During Pandemic
Numbers are in for the costs the pandemic had on restaurants. That’s today’s This Land of Ours. Image by stokpic from Pixabay Detailed numbers are coming in for consumers’ food-buying…
Organic Assistance Programs Accepting Applications
…the COVID-19 pandemic.” About the Author Brian German Facebook Twitter Ag News Director, AgNet West Sponsored Content Let’s Talk Livestock Risk Protection For Those Beef On Dairy Animals – Matt…
USDA to Provide $6 Billion in Natural Disaster Assistance to Producers
…will be based on crop insurance data. “For over two years, farmers and ranchers across the country have been hard hit by an ongoing pandemic coupled with more frequent and…
Foster Farms Among Accused Meatpackers in House COVID Panel Report
…Those Pesky Health Departments!’: How the Trump Administration Helped the Meatpacking Industry Block Pandemic Worker Protections.” You can find the full report by clicking here. Foster Farms is named in…
Vilsack: ‘Don’t Lose Sight of Farm Families’
…farm families. They deserve our attention. They deserve some creative thought about how we may be able to assist them during this pandemic-stricken time, and I sincerely hope that we…