Perdue Names Three Acting Deputy Secretaries
(Southwest Farm Press) - As Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue continues to reorganize the USDA... Full Story
(Southwest Farm Press) - As Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue continues to reorganize the USDA... Full Story
(Agriculture.com) - While Democratic lawmakers and farm activists criticized President Trump for his decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Treaty, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue shrugged off climate change as inevitable and said USDA was “committed to digging ever deeper into research to develop better methods of agricultural... Full Story
(Ag Professional) - On May 23, the Office of Management and Budget released the President’s full budget proposal for fiscal year 2018. In total, it recommends that Congress spend just under $4.1 trillion for the next fiscal year, with increases for defense, homeland security, and veterans programs, and cuts almost every place else... Full Story
(Food Safety News) - Poultry, antibiotics, Ionophores and activities with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency were among the... Full Story
Category: Food Safety, USDA
(Food Safety News) - A seemingly minor component of the USDA reorganization plan released last week could have a negative impact on food safety as the plan gets implemented. Much of the focus has been on the creation of a new undersecretary for trade position, but the plan also calls for the establishment of an interagency committee that would coordinate agricultural trade policy... Full Story
Category: USDA
(Agriculture.com) - Fearing the demotion of rural economic concerns and harm to their communities, a coalition of rural and farm groups urged leaders of the House and Senate Agriculture Committees to oppose the USDA’s plan to eliminate the Office of Under Secretary for Rural Development... Full Story
(IDFA) - IDFA last week joined more than 40 dairy company executives and farmers from across the country in... Full Story
(Food Business News) - Secretary of Agriculture George E. (Sonny) Perdue on May 1 announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture ... Full Story
Category: Food Safety, USDA
(Food Safety Magazine) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) National Institute of Food and Agriculture.... Full Story
Category: Miscellaneous, USDA
(AgWeb) - Corn and wheat tried to reverse course overnight following Monday’s slide while soybeans moved lower... Full Story