USDA
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Nearly 100 percent of Trump funds designed to help farmers went to white farmers
A new report reveals race and income disparities in regards to a program designed to protect growers from Trump’s trade war with China.
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Native Americans caught salmon here for millennia. Now the world is hooked.
On the Northwest's Columbia River, tribes fish for a new prosperity.
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Trump’s USDA could be a disaster for farms and forests
Sonny Perdue, nominee for agriculture secretary, believes climate change is a "running joke." It's not.
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Americans spent $18.8 million in food stamps at farmers markets last year
At farmers markets, accepting SNAP benefits is a win for low-income shoppers – and farmers, too.
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Federal diet guidelines won’t mention food’s environment connection. Ugh.
The new dietary guidelines want you to know that your food came from the grocery store.
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Industrial poultry about to get even crappier — literally
What will happen if USDA inspectors leave big poultry processors to "self-regulate"? The result could be worse than pink slime.
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Critical List: Tariffs for imported Chinese solar panels; Obama to visit solar facility
The Department of Commerce announced that China was selling solar panels at unfairly low prices in the U.S. and that it would slap tariffs on them. Obama’s on an “all-of-the-above” energy tour today: He’ll stop at a solar facility and at oil and gas fields. The New York Times reported Sunday that the U.S. Department […]
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Know your bites: Does the USDA’s local-farms program have a chance?
Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food, the USDA's two-year-old campaign to support local growers, faces a moment of reckoning.
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School lunches still contain ‘pink slime’
For those among you who really miss the “pink slime” content of McDonald’s hamburgers and Taco Bell’s … everything, you can still get your fix of the ammonia-doused meat product, made of leftover, fatty trimmings. Where, you ask, can I find this abomination? According to The Daily, you can find it in your child’s school […]