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Farm Service Agency Administrator Jonathan Coppess said today that the 2009 FSA county committee elections will begin tomorrow, Nov.

ST. PAUL, Minn. - The USDA Farm Service Agency's county committee elections are under way.

November 06, 2009 At the urging of travel industry associations, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has withdrawn its plan for a 10 percent increase of fees paid by travelers entering the United States, the National Business Travel Association announced this week.

Main Category: Nutrition / Diet Also Included In: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture A joint public meeting focused on improving the system for tracing of food products and ingredients that are causing illness outbreaks or presenting other risks to the health of consumers was announced today by the Food and Drug Administration of the U.S. Department ...

An animal rights group on Friday asked a U.S. Department of Agriculture agency to look into an owner's treatment of a circus elephant that escaped and was hit by a sport utility vehicle on a northwestern Oklahoma highway.

The Obama administration intends to seek resolution to a lawsuit filed by American Indian farmers who alleged discrimination in the granting of federal agricultural loans over three decades.

Two Nebraska banks have obtained federal loan guarantees through the U.S Department of Agriculture, which is using federal stimulus funding.

The American Farm Bureau Federation is partnering with the Agriculture Department's National Agricultural Library to create the National Curriculum and Training Clearinghouse for Beginning Farmers and Ranchers.

Food Lion is asking customers to return some ground beef because the chain received shipments that are part of a nationwide E. coli recall.

On the heels of a Humane Society of the United States investigation that exposed brutal practices at a Vermont slaughter plant -- which led to the U.S. Department of Agriculture ordering the plant closed -- HSUS has released graphic video footage showing cows being brutalized and mistreated by plant workers, while an unidentified USDA inspector ...

A lot of Mid-South cotton, corn, rice, soybean and grain sorghum crops were still sitting in fields unharvested even as grocery stores were lining their aisles with Halloween treats.

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LITTLE ROCK a ' Farmers in 60 Arkansas counties are eligible to apply for emergency low-interest federal loans under a U.S. Agriculture Department declaration related to October flooding, Gov.

Milk prices, which saw a dramatic slump last year that was accelerated by the tanking economy, are on the way back up.

OTTAWA a ' Organic produce will likely be pricier this winter and some vegetable bins could even be empty because the Canadian border is now closed to "organic" veggies containing sodium nitrate, the organics industry is warning.

Share + Nov 4, 2009 2:15 pm US/Eastern 1 of 1 Pigs in a commercial herd in Indiana have tested positive for the H1N1, or swine, flu vaccine, the first time the virus has been found in such hogs, according to the USDA.

Statement regarding expanded market access for U.S. beef in Taiwan Nov. 3, 2009 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Office of the United States Trade Representative and the USDA today released a brief statement regarding Taiwan's announcement on the import of American beef.

Laser labeling of fruit and vegetables is a new, patented technology in which a low-energy carbon dioxide laser beam is used to label, or "etch" information on produce, thereby eliminating the need for common sticker-type labels.

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