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Urban Mission Ministries will be serving as a third-year sponsor for the Ohio Department of Education, USDA Summer Food Service Program, which begins Monday and continues through Aug. 17. Urban Mission will host six sites - five of them in Steubenville and one open site in Wintersville, according to Cynthia Lytle, summer food program director, ... (more)
Farmers in Kansas and Oklahoma are planting more land with cotton than they have for decades as they ditch wheat, attracted by relatively high cotton prices and the crop's ability to withstand drought. A 20-percent increase from last year marks a sharp turnaround for the crop that once dominated the Mississippi Delta into Texas.
U.S. TAKES ACTION AGAINST CANADIAN TRADE MEASURES THAT DISCRIMINATE AGAINST U.S. WINE May 29, 2018 Source: USDA news release U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue and Trade Representative Robert E. Lighthizer announced today that the Trump Administration has requested that the World Trade Organization establish a dispute settlement panel to examine unfair regulations governing the sale of wine in grocery stores in the Canadian province of British Columbia . The Office of the United States Trade Representative is challenging BC regulations that discriminate against U.S. and other imported wine by allowing only BC wine to be sold on regular grocery store shelves.
USDA, UNIVERSITY STUDY COMPARES FARMERS USING DEALER FINANCING AND THOSE WITH CONVENTIONAL LENDER May 29, 2018 Source: Univ of Illinois news release In a series of recent articles, we show that farmers' use of implement dealer financing has increased substantially since 2003 . Implement dealers currently provide nearly one-third of the agricultural sector's long-term non-real estate debt.
USDA: OLDER OPERATORS OFTEN RUN SMALL FAMILY FARMS AND LOW-SALES FARMS May 29, 2018 Source: USDA news release A notable characteristic of principal farm operators is their relatively advanced age. In 2016, 36 percent of principal farm operators were at least 65 years old, compared with only 14 percent of self-employed workers in nonagricultural businesses.
Memorial Day is Monday, meaning the summer grill season is here, and food experts are reminding everyone of some basic safety tips for their cookouts. USDA Food Specialist Archie Magoulas tells WSJM News foods should not be left out for more than an hour or so.
Hormel Food Corp. is recalling approximately 228,614 pounds of canned pork and chicken Spam and luncheon loaf products that may be contaminated with pieces of metal. Affected are "Spam Classic" with a "Best By" February 2021 date and production codes: F020881, F020882, F020883, F020884, F020885, F020886, F020887, F020888 and F020889.
Indian Land is one step closer to getting its own YMCA. The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced May 16 that it is loaning Upper Palmetto YMCA nearly $300,000 to help pay for a 74,000-square-foot YMCA, with an outdoor sports and play area on more than 15 acres.
Mifflin Juniata Human Services has announced that distribution of USDA commodity food through the TEFAP program will be held from 8 to 11 a.m. today at Salvation Army, 9 South Dorcas St., Lewistown and at Calvary Bible Church, 100 Calvary Lane, Lewistown . If supplies are completely distributed before 11 a.m., distribution may close early.
Schools have shifted where students can come for a free lunch this summer with the goal of getting more children fed. Franklin and Clark-Pleasant schools have removed summer lunch locations that didn't draw as many children and added new spots that they expect will be more accessible to parents in need of a free meal for their kids.
For many Americans, the summer grilling and travel season begins this upcoming weekend. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service wants to make sure you and your family avoid food poisoning this summer.
A cheap and effective tool that could save lives by helping health authorities target mosquitos infected with Zika virus has been developed by researchers from the University of Queensland and colleagues in Brazil. Dr Maggy Sikulu-Lord and Dr Jill Fernandes, at the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation , found Near Infrared Spectroscopy was 18-times faster and 110-times cheaper than the current detection method.
USDA: 81% OF CORN, 56% OF SOYBEANS PLANTED May 23, 2018 Farm Futures magazine reports: The 2018 planting season started relatively slowly for corn, but the crop has officially caught up to the five-year average, with 81% of the crop in the ground as of May 20. Spring planting progress for soybeans and spring wheat also made big strides this past week. Some states are even further along than the national average - even some major Midwestern states such as Illinois , Indiana and Iowa .
The year 2018 marks the sixth year in a row that the Humane Society of the United States is publishing a list of 100 problem puppy mills and dog sellers. In Greens Fork, USDA inspectors found an American Eskimo puppy dead in a bowl with bloody water.
USDA will purchase up to $177.4 million in American-grown products for nutrition assistance programs using a new streamlined process. The products will be provided to families in need through USDA's nutrition assistance programs.
The meat industry, fearing societal changes toward increased environmental and health awareness, has moved swiftly to try and combat lab-grown and plant-based meat. Both promise a slew of benefits for the environment and human health, but threaten to upend the existing meat industry, spurring efforts on the latter's part to prevent use of the term "meat" in association with these new types of meat products.
Focusing too much on costs can result in a race to the bottom, says Chad Sheridan, CIO of USDA's Risk Management Agency. Instead, Federal CIOs are looking to a smarter approach for delivering deliver IT value.
There has been some interest in the proposed changes in federal ownership of the National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility that were included in the President's FY 2019 budget request. The President's request calls for transitioning ownership and responsibility for operating NBAF from the Department of Homeland Security to the U.S. Department of Agriculture .
We recently got the first glimpse of what that label might look like, when the U.S. Department of Agriculture released its proposed guidelines . This is the product of a decades-long fight between anti-GMO campaigners and Big Agriculture companies, which left neither side completely satisfied, as NPR has reported .
Throughout the nation, Americans are taking a stand against cruel puppy mills by supporting efforts to prohibit puppy mill operators from selling dogs in pet stores. Recently, Maryland became the second state in the nation to ban the sale of puppy mill puppies in pet stores when Gov. Larry Hogan signed bipartisan legislation to protect dogs and the state's consumers.