USDA Newswire Report News
Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Wonton - Volume 3 Issue 6
By USDA Newswire Report | Apr 10, 2023
Bite size local news, Post reports and activity summaries wrapped by ATO Hong Kong.
USDA Announces Dates for Oregon and Washington Pears Continuance Referendum
By USDA Newswire Report | Apr 10, 2023
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will conduct a referendum May 8-30, 2023, for pear growers to vote on whether to continue their federal marketing order.
USDA Reduces Barriers, Increases Opportunities for More Vendors to Participate in USDA Commodity Procurement Food Purchase Programs, Aligns Transportation Requirements with Industry Practices
By USDA Newswire Report | Apr 10, 2023
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced that beginning July 1, 2023, suppliers of food purchase programs administered by the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) will no longer be required to use high security seals on trucks, railcars, vessels and other transports when transporting food products purchased to support those programs but will be allowed to use traceable, tamper evident, flat metal, wire or plastic commercial security seals.
USDA Expands Local Foods in School Meals through Cooperative Agreement with Kansas
By USDA Newswire Report | Apr 10, 2023
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) today announced it has signed a cooperative agreement with Kansas for more than $2 million to increase their purchase of nutritious, local foods for school meal programs.
USDA Announces $7.6 Million in Grant Funding Available to Promote Food Security in Alaska, Hawaii, and U.S. Territories
By USDA Newswire Report | Apr 10, 2023
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced $7.6 million in funding available through the Micro-Grants for Food Security Program (MGFSP) to increase the quantity and quality of locally grown food through small-scale gardening, herding, and livestock operations in food insecure communities in Alaska, Hawaii, and U.S. territories.
Celebrating World Health Day Extension Program Efforts
By USDA Newswire Report | Apr 10, 2023
Some Land-grant Institutions and Universities (LGUs) are addressing the challenges of physical inactivity and poor diet.
Southern Region Land-grant Researchers Finding Feral Hog Solutions
By USDA Newswire Report | Apr 10, 2023
The following story first was published on the LSU AgCenter News webpage. It is reprinted here with permission.
NIFA Invests $300K in Response to Extreme Weather Events Across the U.S.
By USDA Newswire Report | Apr 10, 2023
NIFA has funded — through the Rapid Response to Extreme Weather Events Across Food and Agriculture Systems program — a hurricane-related project at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez.
NIFA Invests $5M for Higher Education Challenge
By USDA Newswire Report | Apr 10, 2023
The purpose of the Higher Education Challenge (HEC) Grants Program is to strengthen institutional capacities, including curriculum, faculty, scientific instrumentation, instruction delivery systems, and student recruitment and retention, to respond to identified state, regional, national, or international educational needs in the food and agricultural sciences, or in rural economic, community, and business development.
Living the Farm Dream
By USDA Newswire Report | Apr 10, 2023
This piece was adapted from a piece in the Extension Administrators Newsletter.
Increasing Fruit and Vegetable Intake in Cancer Patients
By USDA Newswire Report | Apr 10, 2023
Originally published on Landgrantimpacts.org Increasing fruit and vegetable intake in cancer patients – Land Grant Impacts.
Scientists Across the Country Working to Create More Nutrient-Dense Diets
By USDA Newswire Report | Apr 10, 2023
Originally published on LandgrantImpacts.org NH-Summary6-Precision-Nutrition-newBP.pdf (landgrantimpacts.org)
NIFA Supported Research Tackles Weedy Problem
By USDA Newswire Report | Apr 10, 2023
Pesticides may be used, but that’s often not the best choice as some pesticides can go beyond targeting weeds and kill crops and beneficial insects.
Land-grant Universities Improve Local Food and Nutrition Security
By USDA Newswire Report | Apr 10, 2023
Originally appeared on Landgrantimpacts.org, FS-Summary1-LocalFoodSecurity.pdf_corrected-newBP.pdf (landgrantimpacts.org)
EFNEP Changing Lives
By USDA Newswire Report | Apr 10, 2023
Using a peer-led education model to support program participants’ efforts toward self-sufficiency and nutritional health and well-being, EFNEP remains at the forefront of nutrition education efforts to reduce nutrition insecurity of low-income families and youths today.
Community Nutrition Programs Improve Healthful Outcomes
By USDA Newswire Report | Apr 10, 2023
Launched in 1969, the National Institute of Food and Agriculture’s EFNEP is the nation’s first nutrition education program for low-income populations and remains at the forefront of nutrition education efforts to reduce nutrition insecurity of low-income families and youths today.
Texas A&M Meat Scientist Developing ‘No Nitrite-Added’ Cured Meats
By USDA Newswire Report | Apr 10, 2023
The following story originally appeared on AgriLife Today and is reprinted here with permission.
NIFA Invests $9.4M in Urban, Indoor, and other Emerging Agricultural Production Research, Education and Extension Initiative
By USDA Newswire Report | Apr 10, 2023
NIFA has announced funding of more than $9.4 million for 12 projects through the Urban, Indoor, and Other Emerging Agricultural Production Research, Education and Extension Initiative.
Puerto Rico’s Agricultural Economy in the Aftermath of Hurricanes Irma and Maria: A Brief Overview
By USDA Newswire Report | Apr 10, 2023
This study provides a broad overview of Puerto Rico’s agricultural sector, with an emphasis on identifying changes between 2012 and 2018.
USDA-ARS Now Stewarding the Rangeland Analysis Platform
By USDA Newswire Report | Apr 10, 2023
United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) will now manage the scientific and technological advancements of the Rangeland Analysis Platform (RAP), a dataset with an interactive online mapping tool that allows users to access more than three decades of vegetation and production trends across the United States.