Sign-up for the Emergency Livestock Relief Program begins on Monday, Sept. 15 to help offset increased feed costs due to qualifying flooding or wildfires in 2023 and 2024.
New proposed USDA rule will better protect farmers, ranchers, and other covered market participants by making clearer how prohibitions on unfair practices will be enforced under the Packers and Stockyards Act.
The agency is introducing a new Voluntary H5N1 Dairy Herd Status Pilot Program to give dairy producers more options to monitor the health of their herds and move cows more quickly, while providing on-going testing.
Final results of USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service beef muscle sampling of cull dairy cows condemned at select FSIS-inspected slaughter facilities confirm the meat supply is safe, the agency said Thursday.
Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) participants can donate emergency grazing authority to ranchers in Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas impacted by recent wildfires.
Ag Secretary Vilsack hails voluntary “Product of U.S.A.” label as a vital step towards consumer protection and builds on efforts to bolster trust and fairness in the marketplace.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Friday nearly $66 million to improve water quality, roads, trails, bridges and fish habitat on national forests and grasslands nationwide.
