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13 Nov 2009, 7:47 am
Earlier this year US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack told various interest groups in the agricultural industry that the USDA would not be able to purchase any more excess pork products to help the industry because there simply wasn’t the money in the USDA coffers. [read post]
13 Nov 2009, 2:00 am
Department of Agriculture (USDA) Office of the Inspector General (IG) calling for an investigation of beef testing protocol. [read post]
12 Nov 2009, 8:05 am
While the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) “requires salmonella testing at all poultry plants, [] up to 20 percent of the chicken sampled can test positive. [read post]
12 Nov 2009, 7:08 am
Yesterday, November 11, 2009, US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack “announced that 70 U.S. trade organizations received more than $234 million in Fiscal Year 2009 to help promote American food and agricultural products overseas. [read post]
12 Nov 2009, 2:00 am
Department of Agriculture (USDA) to put a hold on all beef shipments to Taiwan. [read post]
11 Nov 2009, 8:31 am
As Scott Kilman reports for the Wall Street Journal, the slow harvest “forced the US Agriculture Department to trim its huge production forecasts and raise its price outlook for everything from corn and rice to cotton. [read post]
11 Nov 2009, 8:04 am
In the spirit of Veterans Day, the US Agriculture & Food Law and Policy Blog thanks our veterans for their service and we have a short post on an announcement from the USDA and Defense Department that covers both agriculture and the military. [read post]
11 Nov 2009, 7:35 am
" The bill’s training program would be run by the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Integrated Food Safety Initiative. [read post]
11 Nov 2009, 2:00 am
Department of Agriculture (USDA) conduct the audits. [read post]
9 Nov 2009, 9:45 am
On Friday, November 6, 2009, US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that $56.2 million in loan guarantees for rural businesses, funding made available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), will be distributed to 12 rural businesses. [read post]
9 Nov 2009, 8:14 am
As this blog has reported, the exports will have to follow US Department of Agriculture (USDA) tests and guidelines to ensure the beef entering Taiwan is from an animal that was slaughtered when it was less than 30 months old. [read post]
9 Nov 2009, 7:44 am
The GAO has also found that the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is not always prompt when notifying states and school about recalls of food “distributed through the federal school lunch and breakfast programs, which serve 30 million students. [read post]
6 Nov 2009, 1:41 pm
Ken Thomas of the Associated Press has a story up on the ABC News website in which US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack essentially pledges to move forward with the discrimination lawsuit brought by Indian farmers and ranchers a decade ago. [read post]
6 Nov 2009, 1:23 pm
Both rulings -- the first, upheld several times on appeal, came down in 2007 -- found the regulatory apparatus used by the Department of Agriculture severely lacking. [read post]
6 Nov 2009, 11:00 am
Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. [read post]
5 Nov 2009, 5:43 am
"The USDA discovered the flu in the pigs in Indiana using the department's swine surveillance program. [read post]
5 Nov 2009, 2:00 am
Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) and discovered the presence of 0.0765 parts per million (ppm) of flunixin in the liver tissue. [read post]
4 Nov 2009, 2:53 pm
Even though early this fall, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that it once again would delay enforcement of the new Lacey Act import declaration requirements for paper and wood pulp products, other far-reaching provisions in the Lacey Act’s amendments (including the declaration requirement itself) are already in effect. [read post]
4 Nov 2009, 9:37 am
With a fresh new report out from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and an upcoming hearing in the Senate Agriculture Committee over the reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act, the issue of child nutrition seems to be getting a lot of attention lately.As the USA Today online reports, the recent report completed by the USDA for Congress shows that American schools have improved their efforts at identifying students eligible for free or… [read post]
4 Nov 2009, 6:46 am
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), along with the US Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) will hold a public meeting December 9-10, 2009 in the USDA's South Building Jefferson Auditorium in Washington, DC. [read post]
