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USDA Removes Two New York Townships from Regulation for Golden Nematode

January 28, 2011 Greg Rosenthal, APHIS Public Affairs Specialist, Riverdale, MD

By itself, it would have been great news when USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) recently announced the absence of golden nematode in the townships of Elba and Byron in Genesee County, New York, and removed these areas from regulation. APHIS and the New York State Department...

Animals Plants

President Obama Visits Wisconsin Manufacturers Revitalized with USDA Loan Guarantee Support

January 28, 2011 Judith Canales, Administrator for USDA Rural Development Business and Cooperative Programs

President Barack Obama visited three businesses in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, this week on the heels of the State of the Union address. The main event was his address to the employees of Orion Energy Systems Inc. Orion designs and produces energy management systems consisting primarily of high...

Initiatives Energy Rural

USDA-Ready to Assist America’s Rural Communities With State-of-the-Art Broadband Services

January 28, 2011 Jonathan Adelstein, Administrator, USDA Rural Utilities Service

During his State of the Union address earlier this week, President Obama outlined a vision for the future that calls on America to “Out innovate, out educate, and out build the rest of the world.” A crucial contributor to this effort, as the President recognized, is rural broadband. USDA is funding...

Rural Technology

Know Your Farmer, Help a Refugee, Meet a Neighbor

January 28, 2011 Christine Chavez, Office of Advocacy and Outreach, USDA and Larry Lavarentz, Office of Refugee Resettlement, Health and Human Services

What does USDA have to do with supporting refugees? What do refugees contribute to our food systems here in the United States? The answers become clear when you look at a unique partnership between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Refugee Agricultural Partnership Program (RAPP)...

Food and Nutrition Farming