As a mariachi played melodies for the crowd, hundreds of families lined up Tuesday to get groceries for their Christmas dinner in Little Village, one of the neighborhoods hardest hit … Read More
USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) helped farmers, livestock producers and foresters weather a tough 2020, marked with a pandemic and natural disasters. (Canton Daily Ledger
A South Carolina lawmaker is introducing a bill to restore Black-owned farms and invest in African Americans interested in farming. (WCSC)
An agricultural company in Washington state where two workers died from COVID-19 was fined more than $2 million for repeatedly violating coronavirus virus safety procedures. (USA Today)
Democrats have struggled to win voters in rural America, and critics say the return of Tom Vilsack, a former agriculture secretary, won’t help. (New York Times)
In a move celebrated by the hog industry, the Trump administration proposed on Monday to put the USDA in charge of regulating genetically engineered livestock and poultry, a duty now … Read More
It took months of on-again, off-again negotiations, but Congress finally reached an agreement on a second round of coronavirus relief programs for struggling businesses, farmers, hungry families, unemployed workers and … Read More
Twin-Cities residents were able to browse fresh produce brought to them by local suppliers Saturday, at the Downtown Bloomington Farmers Market. (WMBD
Congressional leaders agreed Sunday, December 20, 2020 on a $900 billion bipartisan pandemic relief bill bundled with a $1.4 trillion omnibus government spending package. The legislation contains several provisions designed … Read More
Twenty-eight Illinois county Farm Bureaus, including Hancock, have been awarded grants under the Illinois Farm Bureau’s nutrient stewardship grant program. (Herald-Whig)
