23 Apr 2019

New ReConnect Rural Broadband Infrastructure Program

By USDA Office of Communications

WASHINGTON DC (April 23, 2019) — Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue today announced that the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is now accepting online applications for funding through the new ReConnect Rural Broadband Pilot Program. These funds will enable the federal government to partner with the private-sector and rural communities to build modern broadband-infrastructure in areas with insufficient internet-service.

23 Apr 2019

USDA National Organic Program Now Hiring Auditors

By USDA Agricultural Marketing Service

WASHINGTON DC (April 23, 2019) — Join the team of professionals responsible for maintaining the gold-standard of organic-regulations: the USDA Organic Seal. This small federal-enforcement agency oversees the dynamic, growing organic-industry and ensures continued consumer-trust under increasingly-complex supply-chains from farm to table worldwide.

18 Apr 2019

United States Wins Dispute Finding China’s Administration of Grain Tariff-Rate Quotas Breaches WTO Commitments

By USDA Office of Communications

WASHINGTON DC (April 18, 2019) — US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced today that a World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement-panel found that China has administered its tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) for wheat, corn, and rice inconsistently with its WTO commitments. Contrary to those commitments, China’s TRQ administration is not transparent, predictable, or fair, and it ultimately inhibits TRQs from filling, denying US farmers acces

12 Apr 2019

USDA Update on Farm Bill Implementation Progress

By USDA Office of Communications

WASHINGTON DC (April 12, 2019) — US Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced the implementation-status of the 2018 Farm Bill. President Trump signed this Farm Bill into law on December 20, 2018, and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) promptly began implementation of key programs. USDA held several listening-sessions with stakeholders and the public, specific to each agency’s respective mission-areas.

11 Apr 2019

2017 Census of Agriculture Data Now Available

By USDA Office of Communications

WASHINGTON DC (April 11, 2019) — The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced the results of the 2017 Census of Agriculture, spanning some 6.4 million new points of information about America’s farms and ranches and those who operate them, including new data about on-farm decision-making, down to the county level.

04 Apr 2019

Mathias Ham Historic Site Named People's Choice Site of the Year

By Jori Wade-Booth

CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA (April 4, 2019) — The Mathias Ham Historic Site has been named the Silos and Smokestacks "People's Choice Site of the Year." The Grout Museum District in Waterloo and Brucemore in Cedar Rapids were both honored as being one of the top-three sites.

04 Apr 2019

Rep Abby Finkenauer Steps up to the Plate on Biodiesel Tax Credit

By Jenna Higgins Rose

ANKENY, IOWA (April 4, 2019) — Iowa’s biodiesel-producers, soybean-farmers, and fuel-distributors today praised first-term US Representative Abby Finkenauer for introducing a House bill that would extend a biodiesel tax-incentive for 2019, as well as retroactively for 2018. Congress allowed the biodiesel and renewable-diesel tax-credit to lapse since 2017, upsetting market-dynamics and stymying future growth for a promising American energy-industry. 

03 Apr 2019

Saturday is Chocolate Experience at the Botanical Center

By Melanie Shields

ROCK ISLAND, ILLINOIS (April 3, 2019) — The Quad City Botanical Center is hosting Chocolate Experience 04/06. 

It’s a family-friendly event for all ages with free chocolate samples, products for sale for Easter and Mother’s Day gift-giving, and hands-on activities for kids and adults.

Local and regional chocolatiers, sweet-treat shops, a brewery, and non-edible chocolate vendors will be offering free samples and sharing their chocolate knowledge.

03 Apr 2019

Iowa Farm Bureau Crop Experts Say the Worst is Yet to Come for Farmers Impacted by Flooding

By Laurie Johns

WEST DES MOINES, IOWA (April 3, 2019) — Iowa Farm Bureau Federation’s (IFBF) economists say Iowa may see upwards of $2 billion in damages from recent flooding in Iowa, which the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) says 

02 Apr 2019

USDA Study Shows Significant Greenhouse-Gas Benefits of Ethanol Compared with Gasoline

By USDA Office of Communications

WASHINGTON DC (April 2, 2019) — A new study released by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) finds greenhouse-gas emissions from corn-based ethanol are about 39 percent lower than gasoline. The study also states that when ethanol is refined at natural gas-powered refineries, the greenhouse-gas emissions are even lower, around 43 percent below gasoline.

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