…bright, self-sufficient future for America’s children through well-managed school meal programs.” As part of this package, USDA is offering guidance to help schools utilize its award-winning, open-source online school meal…
Injunction Prohibits Component of Pest Prevention and Management Program
…Food and Agriculture (CDFA). Farmers and other property owners will still be allowed to apply chemical insecticides, but CDFA will no longer be able to spray pesticides on vegetation in…
USDA Seeks Ideas to Help SNAP Participants Become Independent
…Service administers 15 nutrition assistance programs. In addition to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, these programs include Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, the National School Lunch…
USDA: Pesticide Residue Levels Show No Risk to Consumers
More than 20 percent of the food sampled by the USDA in 2016 showed no detectable pesticide levels and less than .5 percent of the food had detectable residue levels…
E.M. Tharp and World Ag Expo® “We Believe in Growing” Scholarship Winners Announced
…submitted letters of recommendation, high school transcripts, ACT or SAT scores and must expect to graduate from high school during the 2017-2018 school year. The winners will be recognized at…
NRCS and the Rice Stewardship Partnership Helping Central Valley Irrigation
…water quality, specifically improving on-farm production that will maximize fertilizer uptake, minimize nutrient losses, and prevent pesticide losses on working rice fields. The improvement of water quantity and quality will…
DPR Takes Action Against Stores Supplying Cannabis Growers for Violation of Pesticide Laws
The California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) has fined a Bay Area hydroponic gardening store $20,000 for violating state pesticide laws that are designed to protect public health. The action…
Sacramento County Farm Bureau Scholarships Now Available
…deserving students since it was formed in 2000.” Four scholarship programs are offered: Scholastic Scholarship: Applicants must be a current or former student of Sacramento County schools (or students who…
Agri View: Agricultures Value
…country. To me it is important that every individual, including school children, be taught, and understand, that those planted fields you see as you drive across your county, or across…
USDA Helped Improve Essential Services for 7 Million Rural Residents in 2017
…to construct three, 11,000-square-foot buildings for students at the Willow Oak Montessori Charter School. The school will add an 8th grade and kindergarten for the 2018-2019 school year when the…
First Mobile App with Food Buying Guide
…app is available to the public and can be an immediate resource to over 280,000 program operators responsible for USDA’s National School Lunch Program, School Breakfast Program, Child and Adult…
Classic Lunch Favorite Creamy or Nutty
…or with chocolate, Peanut Butter has been an American staple for generations. According to the Peanut Advisory Board, the average American school child will consume 15-hundred PB&J sandwiches by the…
Blue Jacket Bonanza Program Continues to Grow in Tulare County
…then awarded based on need, community service activities, leadership skills, and commitment to the FFA program. Blankenship, who received her FFA jacket during her freshman year of high school, remembers…
Honeybees Attraction to Pesticides
…care for syrup with extremely high concentrations of pesticides, at low levels, the bees flocked to those pesticides. Among the pesticides tested, was one of the most common ones used…