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Meeting the Nutritional Needs of the Nation’s Schoolchildren

January 13, 2011 Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack

Cross-posted from the Let's Move! Blog: Ensuring our nation’s schoolchildren have the necessary nutrition to learn, grow, and thrive is commitment that we take very seriously at U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). On the heels of the historic passage of the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010...

Food and Nutrition Initiatives

Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food Art Contest Yields Beautiful Harvest

January 13, 2011 Josephine Malepeai Lealasola, Agricultural Specialist, FSA American Samoa Field Office

As part of its approach to community outreach, the Farm Service Agency (FSA) American Samoa office sponsored a week-long effort to catalyze high school students and the public to think about pursuing a career in agriculture. American Samoa consists of 7 islands and is 77 square miles, an area just...

Food and Nutrition Farming

Through the Recovery Act, an Oregon Business, Small Bank Find Opportunity and Protect Jobs

January 13, 2011 Jill Rees, Public Affairs Specialist Oregon USDA Rural Development

A few years ago, RAM Trucking was mainly a hauler of building materials—but everyone knows what happened to the housing market. Yet, RAM Trucking is still on the road and more resilient than ever. To safely steer his company when the economy began to slide, President Dale Latimer applied a basic...

Initiatives Rural

Alaska’s Tribal Organizations Share Views with USDA

January 13, 2011 Gene Kane, Special Projects Director, USDA Rural Development, Alaska

On January 10 and 11, 2011, USDA’s Office of Tribal Relations (OTR) visited Anchorage to conduct a consultation with Alaska Tribes on a wide range of subjects. At the Consultation, OTR staff, and local and national agency officials met with representatives of Alaska’s Tribes for a discussion of...

Rural