Decades of USDA Racism Leave Black Farmers Fighting for Equality
Lloyd Wright has worked with 10 presidents since the early 1960s and seen how both Republicans and Democrats have failed to ...
Map Reveals States Producing the Most Christmas Trees
The USDA states that Christmas trees are grown commercially on about 16,000 farms across all 50 States. "Data from the Census ...
Research uncovers remarkable potential using dogs to eradicate destructive and costly invasive species: '[It's] in his Rolodex of scents'
Dogs' impressive sense of smell has been put to good use to help control other invasive species, too. In Wisconsin, for ...
Bird flu causes deaths of cats and zoo animals as virus spreads in US
Just days after the USDA issued a new order that all raw milk must be tested for bird flu, reports have emerged of animals dying of the virus, including cats and several zoo animals.
Nebraska Department of Agriculture reports two more cases of bird flu
The Nebraska Department of Agriculture along with the United States Department of Agriculture have detected two cases of ...
Springfield Police Department opens investigation into alleged animal abuse at Vermont Packinghouse
The United States Department of Agriculture recently released a report that stated that on June 3, a driver was observed ...
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USDA Announces Nationwide Avian Flu Milk Testing
West Virginia Department of Agriculture Dairy Program Manager Rachel Shockey said the testing includes samples from West ...
Hawaiʻi Has Money To Police Agriculture Crime, But No Timeline To Start
Hawaiʻi’s new Department of Law Enforcement has over $90,000 to hire investigators focused on agricultural crimes. And it can ...
US government to begin expanded testing of milk supply to better track the spread of bird flu
The US Department of Agriculture is set to begin testing raw milk from dairy silos around the nation in an effort to better ...
Trump’s Mass Deportations of Immigrants Could Threaten Agricultural Economies
Immigrants make up about two-thirds of the nation’s crop farmworkers, and roughly 2 in 5 of them are not legally authorized ...
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Oregon agriculture officials testing milk for traces of bird flu
Farmers from around the state are sending samples of their dairy milk to OSU to have it tested for avian influenza.