United States Department of Agriculture News

" U.S. Senators Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker today introduced bipartisan legislation to offer direct and timely disaster assistance to farmers throughout the nation who are experiencing significant crop losses due to excessive rainfall this fall.

How about a bottle of green wine for your Thanksgiving dinner table? For the sake of the environment as well as for the quality of their wines, winemakers around the world are returning to farming practices that resemble those of the Pilgrims.

ROME, Italy, On the sidelines of the 36th Session of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Ministerial Conference, Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan met with Josette Sheeran, Executive Director of the World Food Program , and Akram Musa Hadi Al Hakim, Iraq's Acting Minister of Agriculture.

Food bank volunteer at Harvest Hope Food Bank, S.C. Clemson Univ. As Americans prepare to celebrate abundance in our traditional harvest feast, some sobering trends are worth considering.

Agrivida Inc. has received a $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to develop genetically engineered feedstocks for biofuels production.

USDA has awarded more than 46-million dollars through the Specialty Crop Research Initiative to solve critical specialty crop agriculture issues, address priorities and solve problems through multifunctional research and extension.

More than one in four, or nearly 26 percent of African-American households, suffered from food insecurity in 2008, compared to 14.6 percent of whites.

Maize, or corn, as it is commonly called by North American consumers, is one of the world's most important plants and the most valuable agricultural crop grown in the United States, representing $47 billion in annual value.

20 , 2009 CED Michael Turner, Executive Director of USDA's Farm Service Agency in Montgomery County, TN.

Farmers will soon have a new variety of wheat that promises high yields and excellent qualities in milling.

Men and women carrying the CC genotype demonstrated higher body mass index scores and a higher incidence of obesity, but only if they consumed a diet high in saturated fat.

A new study from the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows more Americans are going hungry.

The United States has stopped canola meal shipments from five Canadian plants at the border over concerns about potentially dangerous salmonella bacteria.

An official from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will be in Idaho to recognize Gooding Elementary School for efforts to improve the health, nutrition and fitness of students.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 A Nebraska company says it has recovered the 90 pounds of ground beef listed in a federal recall report because of possible E. coli contamination.

It may be hard to believe, but there are more than 50,000 dams in South Carolina.

Vermont had one of the largest increases in the country in the percentage of people using food stamps last year, according to data released this month from the U.S Department of Agriculture.

U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss , Ranking Republican Member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, today received testimony during a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing focused on combating hunger and improving child health through nutrition assistance programs.

Boulder, COa 'Genetically engineered corn, soybeans and cotton have increased use of weed-killing herbicides -- a type of pesticide -- by 383 million pounds in the U.S. from 1996 to 2008, according to a new Organic Center report titled " Impacts of Genetically Engineered Crops on Pesticide Use in the United States: The First Thirteen Years " ...

Another relatively warm and dry week in Nebraska let farmers make up some harvest time.