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USDA Announces $35 Million Funding Opportunity to Support Underserved and Veteran Farmers and Ranchers | USDA
USDA Announces $35 Million Funding Opportunity to Support Underserved and Veteran Farmers and Ranchers | USDA
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced approximately $35 million in available funding to community-based and nonprofit organizations, institutions of higher education, and tribal entities that help historically underserved and veteran farmers and ranchers own and operate successful farms.
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USDA Announces $35 Million Funding Opportunity to Support Underserved and Veteran Farmers and Ranchers | USDA
Western lawmakers ask USDA for more aid to farmers, ranchers stricken by heat, drought and fires | The Spokesman-Review
Western lawmakers ask USDA for more aid to farmers, ranchers stricken by heat, drought and fires | The Spokesman-Review
WASHINGTON – Democrats and Republicans who represent Western states in Congress called on the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Tuesday to provide more aid to farmers and ranchers battling historic heat, drought and wildfires across the region. In a letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, lawmakers from nine states asked the USDA chief to “explore all potential flexibilities for additional relief,” noting that some Northwest berry growers have reported losing up to 80% of their crops to the heat wave that saw temperatures in the region reach as high as 120 degrees in June. “Although the extent of damages relating to the extreme heat has yet to be fully determined, agricultural producers expect these impacts to be severe,” the lawmakers wrote. “As producers continue to assess losses over the next 18 months, it is likely that the total impact of the heat wave will be much higher than current estimates.”
·spokesman.com·
Western lawmakers ask USDA for more aid to farmers, ranchers stricken by heat, drought and fires | The Spokesman-Review
RMA authorizes emergency procedures to help drought-impacted producers | Morning Ag Clips
RMA authorizes emergency procedures to help drought-impacted producers | Morning Ag Clips
WASHINGTON — The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is authorizing emergency procedures to help agricultural producers impacted by extreme drought conditions. USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) is working with crop insurance companies to streamline and accelerate the adjustment of losses and issuance of indemnity payments to crop insurance policyholders in impacted areas.
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RMA authorizes emergency procedures to help drought-impacted producers | Morning Ag Clips
USDA announces additional pandemic aid for producers and businesses | Successful Farming
USDA announces additional pandemic aid for producers and businesses | Successful Farming
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today additional aid to agricultural producers and businesses as part of the USDA Pandemic Assistance for Producers initiative. As part of the Pandemic Assistance initiative announced in March, USDA pledged to continue Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP) payments and to provide aid to producers and businesses left behind. Implementation of the assistance announced today will continue within 60 days to include support to timber harvesters, biofuels, dairy farmers and processors, livestock farmers and contract growers of poultry, assistance for organic cost share, and grants for PPE.
·agriculture.com·
USDA announces additional pandemic aid for producers and businesses | Successful Farming
Launching Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate | USDA
Launching Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate | USDA
Once officially launched, AIM for Climate will catalyze greater investment in agricultural R&D and innovation to help to raise global ambition and underpin more rapid and transformative climate action in all countries, including by enabling science-based and data-driven decision and policy-making.
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Launching Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate | USDA
USDA cancels Farmers to Families Food Box Program | Agriculture | capitalpress.com
USDA cancels Farmers to Families Food Box Program | Agriculture | capitalpress.com
USDA will permanently end its Farmers to Families Food Box Program at the end of May. The program, which bought meat, dairy and produce from farmers and directed it to hungry families, was created by the Trump administration during the pandemic. Over the past year, USDA has spent more than $4 billion on the program and delivered more than 156 million boxes through mid-April.
·capitalpress.com·
USDA cancels Farmers to Families Food Box Program | Agriculture | capitalpress.com
USDA Rolls Out Pandemic Assistance – PNW AG Network
USDA Rolls Out Pandemic Assistance – PNW AG Network
The USDA has announced their multi-billion-dollar Pandemic Assistance for Producers, which aims to fill in gaps from CFAP. The new effort puts at least $6 billion into new programs to reach a broader set of producers than earlier efforts, including small and minority, specialty crop and organic producers.
·pnwag.net·
USDA Rolls Out Pandemic Assistance – PNW AG Network
FACT SHEET: United States Department of Agriculture Provisions in H.R. 1319, the American Rescue Plan | USDA
FACT SHEET: United States Department of Agriculture Provisions in H.R. 1319, the American Rescue Plan | USDA
WASHINGTON, Mar. 10, 2021 – Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 1319, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021...Specifically, provisions within the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will reduce hunger across the country, strengthen the food supply chain, invest in rural America, and provide long awaited support to underserved, socially disadvantaged farmers.
·usda.gov·
FACT SHEET: United States Department of Agriculture Provisions in H.R. 1319, the American Rescue Plan | USDA
‘We don’t have a day to waste’ on climate mitigation, says Vilsack | Successful Farming
‘We don’t have a day to waste’ on climate mitigation, says Vilsack | Successful Farming
U.S. agriculture faces a triple imperative — market, environment, and income — in responding to climate change, said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Thursday, his first day on the job. “We don’t have a day to waste on this,” he told reporters while indicating that the USDA will move at deliberate speed to identify and support successful mitigation practices.
·agriculture.com·
‘We don’t have a day to waste’ on climate mitigation, says Vilsack | Successful Farming
Newhouse: The Return Of Vilsack Good News For Northwest Ag – PNW AG Network
Newhouse: The Return Of Vilsack Good News For Northwest Ag – PNW AG Network
Dan Newhouse says Tom Vilsack returning to head the USDA is a good thing for the farming community. The Chair of the Western Congressional Caucus, and a central Washington farmer himself, Newhouse said Vilsack can hit the ground running. Adding the Secretary understands many of the issues before Northwest producers.
·pnwag.net·
Newhouse: The Return Of Vilsack Good News For Northwest Ag – PNW AG Network