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8 Nov 2018
Secretary Perdue receives a Vietnam Veteran lapel pin from Larry Brom of the Vietnam War Commemoration at a USDA Veterans Day event. View the entire Flickr album of the event: https://www.flickr.com/gp/usdagov/j2124q.
8 Nov 2018
WASHINGTON, Nov. 8, 2018 – Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Anne Hazlett today announced that USDA is investing $1.6 billion in 46 rural electric utility infrastructure projects (PDF, 170 KB) to improve electric reliability and resilience in 24 states.
5 Nov 2018
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5, 2018 — As part of the continuing effort to provide relief from the effects of Hurricane Michael, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced that households in 20 Georgia counties that may not normally be eligible for nutrition assistance under regular Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) rules may temp...
2 Nov 2018
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2, 2018 – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced that the United States has joined with 12 other nations to support policies that enable agricultural innovation, including genome editing. The International Statement on Agricultural Applications of Precision Biotechnology was released in Geneva at the World Trade...
2 Nov 2018
(Washington, D.C., November 2, 2018) – The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Chief Executive Officer (CXO) Dashboard Project has been recognized by FedScoop Magazine as the Federal Government’s Innovation of the Year for creating the first comprehensive suite of administrative data dashboards.