Build A Greener World Let’s Do MORE This Earth Day Every year on Earth Day we receive emails and encouragement from organizations and businesses to make changes in our daily habits to positively impact the planet. And many of us are (and have been) taking that guidance to heart: We reduce, reuse and recycle. We …
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A Sailor and His Dragon Fruit
Meet Leonardo Aguila, a U.S. Navy veteran who owns and operates a six-acre orchard in Fallbrook, California. Trouble viewing this email? View it as a webpage. #FridaysOnTheFarm: A Sailor and His Dragon Fruit Meet Leonardo Aguila, a farmer and U.S. Navy veteran who grows avocados, dragon fruit, and cherimoyas on his six-acre orchard in Fallbrook, …
FAS Administrator Isley to Lead Taiwan Trade Mission
Contact: press@fas.usda.gov or (202) 720-7115 FAS Administrator Isley to Lead Taiwan Trade Mission WASHINGTON, April 19, 2019 – Representatives from 49 U.S. agribusinesses and farm organizations will join Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) Administrator Ken Isley on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) first-ever trade mission to Taipei, Taiwan, April 22-25. “Taiwan and the United States …
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Apr. 2019 🐝 Must Knows About Food & Farming Policy
How structural racism eliminated black farmers + SC expands hemp growing, & will Congress fund urban agriculture programs?
1 Tool and 10 Takeaways: The 2017 Census of Agriculture
Interested in county-, state-, or national- level 2017 Census of Agriculture results? They’re only a click away. Trouble viewing this email? View it as a webpage. 1 Tool and 10 Takeaways: The 2017 Census of Agriculture USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service released 2017 Census of Agriculture results on April 11. Here are 10 key takeaways, …
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NCSS National Conference Bylaws Revisions Proposal Comment Period open April 17 through May 10
Having trouble viewing this email? View it as a Web page. You are subscribed to one or more Soil topics. This information has recently been updated, and is now available. NCSS National Conference Bylaws Revisions Proposal Comment Period open April 17 through May 10 Dear National Cooperative Soil Survey Membership, The National Cooperative Soil Survey …
United States Wins Dispute Finding China’s Administration of Grain Tariff-Rate Quotas Breaches WTO Commitments
View as a webpage Press Release United States Wins Dispute Finding China’s Administration of Grain Tariff-Rate Quotas Breaches WTO Commitments (Washington, D.C., April 18, 2019) - U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced today that a World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement panel found that China has administered its tariff-rate …
Farmers Can Measure Conservation Effects with Edge-of-field Monitoring
USDA is currently supporting edge-of-field monitoring in watersheds across 6 states. Trouble viewing this email? View it as a webpage. Farmers Can Measure Conservation Effects with Edge-of-field Monitoring USDA is making $2 million available this year to farmers in specific watersheds across Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri, New York, and Washington. Are you interested in learning …
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SNAP Online Purchasing Pilot
SNAP participants may buy groceries online in New York View as a webpage Press Release USDA Launches SNAP Online Purchasing Pilot Participants May Buy Groceries Online in New York Contact: FNS Communications (703) 305-2281 (Washington, D.C., April 18, 2019) – For the first time, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants will be able to select …
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