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Rep. Jim Costa, D-Calif., spoke with passion about the farm bill and fruits and vegetables in recent remarks recorded in the Congressional Record. From March 6, with the heading "Passing a strong, bipartisan farm bill."
While the unseasonal weather is allowing local farmers to start plowing fields in February, the American Farm Bureau is lobbying for better access to foreign labor this summer for agriculture. The future of farming depends upon a program that allows Mexican seasonal workers to come here and return when the job is done, local farmers say.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has imposed sanctions on four produce firms for failing to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act, including one for more than $1.3 million. Taylor Produce LLC, Rigby, Idaho, is restricted from the produce industry for failing to pay a $1,327,478 award in favor of an Idaho seller, with Alan Taylor Produce and Alan Taylor listed as members of the business.
President Donald Trump's administration wants to replace half of SNAP recipients' monthly cash benefits with a box of food. The proposal would affect 38 million people.
Thanks to the locavore movement, we're used to food with origin stories: that venison tartare once ran free in a forest in Katonah. But what about the farmers? They started out somewhere, too.
Clusters of bruised plantains and bags of oranges hung from RenA "Papo" Cruz's fruit and vegetable stand on the side of the road. The 60-year-old farmer sat in a worn chair, waiting patiently for customers to buy what he could salvage in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.
Thanksgiving is not normally a holiday that lends itself to court disputes. Unlike Hallowe'en and Christmas, about which there are a dozen court cases with an arguable holiday theme, Thanksgiving is a day when most Americans just sit at home and gorge themselves into insensibility.
A worried resident in Germany alerted police to what he thought was a second world war bomb in his garden. Officers found a a particularly large zucchini They said in a statement Friday that officers determined "the object, which really did look very like a bomb" was actually a 40cm courgette.
Mark your calendars: the 4th annual WTXL Turkey Drive benefiting America's Second Harvest of the Big Bend is set for Nov. 16. Last week, we took you to Tallahassee's HOPE Community, a place to stay for the homeless. Now WTXL is taking you to a Wakulla County food pantry where volunteers are making sure families have a Thanksgiving dinner.
The Kansas Department of Agriculture has been awarded $296,405.62 through the Specialty Crop Block Grant Program administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Marketing Service. The Kansas Department of Agriculture has been awarded $296,405.62 through the Specialty Crop Block Grant Program administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Marketing Service.
U.S. Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney met with local officials and agricultural leaders Wednesday to celebrate the award of $130,000 in state and federal matching funds to further Cornell University's study of a new pest that is threatening the region's $40 million onion and allium crops.
Florida's famous oranges are still falling from trees and rotting on the ground weeks after Hurricane Irma, and the state's agriculture commissioner said Thursday there will be fewer Florida vegetables on Thanksgiving tables and a shortage of poinsettias at Christmas. Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam and Florida farmers updated the state Senate Agriculture Committee that the storm damaged crops of all kinds, with losses topping $2.5 billion.
Niven Patel will build on his wildly successful Ghee Indian Kitchen in Kendall by opening a second location in the Design District. He hopes to source more than half of all his produce for the restaurants from his home farm and has put a farmer on the restaurant's payroll to make it happen.
The United States Department of Agriculture in partnership of East West Seed Company continue supporting the agrarian reform beneficiaries in an effort to increase their farm and food production, Department of Agrarian Reform regional spokesperson Joie I. Ceballos told The Manila Bulletin on Monday. Twenty-five ARB members of DoA a Rosario CLOA Holders Vegetable Producers Association in Agusan del Norte have undergone an eight-month training on communal vegetable farming implemented by Winrock International in Caraga under the Philippine Cold Chain Project funded by USDA.
In this Monday, Sept. 11, 2017, file photo provided by the Governor's Press Office, Gov. Rick Scott looks out the window of a C-130 as he assesses damage to the Florida Keys during the aftermath of Hurricane Irma.
Whether you're spending your Freshman year in off-campus housing or you just left a dorm-and meal plan-behind, one big change is on the horizon this school year: you need to make food for yourself with your own kitchen, two hands, and brain. And that means besides making time in your busy schedule to cook, you'll also have to budget for the shopping as well, which can be tough on a college student income.
Though some of Ohio's corn and soybean farmers might be pessimistic about this year's yield, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is not. Despite the excessive rain that fell in Ohio and the necessary replanting for many, sometimes multiple times, the USDA has a reasonably sunny prediction for Ohio's average yield on corn, soybeans and wheat.
Aug. 6-12 has been proclaimed by U. S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue as National Farmers Market Week. This is the 18th year of proclamations supporting local agricultural production and marketing.