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The deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture will be visiting Massachusetts to celebrate the first anniversary of the MyPlate food icon, which was adopted by the agency to promote healthy nutrition. Deputy Secretary Kathleen ...
May 26, 2012 at 15:19 | Source: Boston Herald
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) began to commemorate the 150th anniversary of its founding May 15. On that date in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln founded the USDA and called it the “People’s Department.” With the vast array of ...
May 23, 2012 at 15:16 | Source: Clayton County Register
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack plans to visit Virginia to highlight efforts to expand lending to help certain farmers and ranchers during their start-up years. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says in a release ...
May 22, 2012 at 07:39 | Source: Daily Press
US Department of Agriculture inspectors visited the Boston facility May 16 and cited the Brigham for violating animal welfare rules in the death of the 3-year-old monkey, but assessed no penalties. A 2005 study by a nonprofit animal welfare ...
May 26, 2012 at 08:10 | Source: Boston Globe
The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture offers a searchable directory of farmers markets and farm stands on its website at www.agriculture.state.pa.us
May 29, 2012 at 02:44 | Source: msnbc.com
President Lincoln created the USDA in 1862 and in his last address before Congress called it the "People's Department ... Carter administration secretary, joined us. As we informally discussed the agriculture issues of the time, it was obvious ...
May 26, 2012 at 22:00 | Source: Standard-Times
The Agriculture Department wants to curb the practice by giving states more power to investigate people who repeatedly claim to lose their benefit cards. It is proposing new rules Thursday that would allow states to demand formal explanations ...
May 24, 2012 at 18:14 | Source: Huffington Post
Last week the US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service proposed to strip sodium benzoate, sodium propionate and benzoic acid from the list of substances regulations prohibit to be used in meat or poultry products, according to ...
May 28, 2012 at 19:56 | Source: Meattradenewsdaily (blog)
EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State University says it's getting a visit Tuesday from the chief scientist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The East Lansing school says Catherine Woteki will tour its new Molecular Plant Sciences Building from ...
May 22, 2012 at 01:12 | Source: Daily Oklahoman
AUSTRALIAN cattle producers are anxiousiously waiting after the discovery in the US of bacterial contamination in mincemeat. The federal Department of Agriculture last night confirmed it had been notified by US authorities that Australian ground beef was ...
May 24, 2012 at 10:07 | Source: Weekly Times Now