Other Ag News

U.S. Department of Agriculture Announces Key Slate of Presidential Appointments

Tuesday, January 21, 2025 - 2:41pm

Washington, D.C., Jan. 21, 2025 — The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced the names of the following individuals who will hold senior staff positions in Washington, D.C. These appointees have been selected to implement President Trump’s America First agenda, ensuring...

U.S. Department of Agriculture Shares Enrollment of Six Additional States in Its National Milk Testing Strategy for H5N1

USDA News

Friday, January 17, 2025 - 12:49pm

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17, 2025 – Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced an additional six states are enrolling in the...

Reflections on Martin Luther King Jr. Day and the 1890 Scholars Program

USDA Blog

Friday, January 17, 2025 - 9:15am

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s aura in my childhood home was so pervasive that you would have thought he was a member of our family. My mother, who’d been born on our family farm in Mississippi and later raised in Chicago, came to age at the height of the 1960 Civil Rights movement and understood...