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Cotton prices are weaker at Monday’s midday, with USDA confirming lower cotton acreage. Futures are down 46 to 62 points on some sell the fact reaction. Crude oil futures are up $2.18/barrel ...
On Friday, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollin s bragged on social media platform X about the cancellation of a $600,000 grant for Southern University in Louisiana, touting that her department had ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced on March 18 its rollout of a $10 billion program designed to provide relief to ag producers for losses due to falling commodity prices. The money for ...
The Trump administration is facing backlash from Democrats and school nutrition advocates over its recent decision to kill two federal programs that provided more than $1 billion in funding for ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is cutting two federal programs that provided about $1 billion in funding to schools and food banks to buy food directly from local farms, ranchers and producers ...
This morning’s update to the USDA cotton balance sheet saw no changes to the US side, with stocks left at 4.9 million bales. The average farm price was down 50 points to 63 cents/lb. The Cotton ...
Last week, Health Secretary Ted Herbosa drew sharp criticism from public health advocates when he and several government representatives posed with Philip Morris executives during the turnover of ...
The U.S. Agriculture Department has cut two federal programs that spent over $1 billion annually to help schools and food banks buy food from local farms and ranches, according to a school group ...
The Department of Agriculture has cut over $1 billion in funding aimed at helping schools and food banks purchase from local farmers, according to a news report and a school nutrition nonprofit.
But that’s about to end. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced it’s canceling the two Biden-era programs that paid for all that fresh, local food because it says they “no longer ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) says it has nixed more than $1 billion in funding for local food banks and schools by terminating two programs that aid state, tribal and territorial ...
Before he was abruptly fired last month, Derek Copeland worked as a trainer at the US Department of Agriculture’s National Dog Detection Training Center, preparing beagles and Labrador ...