Items Tagged with 'U.S. Department of Agriculture'

In this opinion piece, Josh Hinerfeld expresses the challenges around organic farming and why support in Washington is needed to ensure the industry’s growth.

Funding will mitigate pests and diseases harmful to the agriculture industry, including a NOW SIT research project.

USDA is awarding $200 million through the Food Safety Certification for Specialty Crops program to help small-scale agricultural operations.

USDA says it will contribute nearly $1 billion to support the purchase of American-grown food in schools.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Tuesday it signed an agreement to enhance its support of minority communities through its partnership with 1890s Land-Grant institutions.

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign received a $3.9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to fund a technological and regenerative operation coined the “Farm of the Future”.

President Joe Biden’s fiscal 2023 includes a $2.6 billion, or 9%, increase for USDA with many of the same themes of the first budget he proposed a year ago.

Breeding Insight, a USDA project that provides resources to specialty crop breeding programs, and VitisGen2, a multi-institute research project, have partnered together to fund an effort to map the genomes of two grapevine germplasm collections.

Sara Neagu-Reed shares the journey of her mental health story and advocates for more resources and funding to go into mental health programs in rural America.