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Interested in Feeding Kids this Summer When School is Out? Join Our Twitter Chat Using #SummerMeals!

April 11, 2013 Jimmy Nguyen, Program Analyst, FNS Office of Strategic Initiatives, Partnerships, and Outreach

Want to help feed kids when school gets out? The USDA is hosting a "Help Serve #SummerMeals This Year" Twitter Town Hall this Friday, April 12, 2013 at 3:00 pm EST to inform and inspire organizations across the country to become a summer meal site when school lets out this year. The Twitter Town...

Food and Nutrition

New Reports Provide Greater Market Transparency

April 11, 2013 Ed Avalos, Under Secretary of USDA Marketing and Regulatory Programs

Earlier this year, USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) published the first Livestock Mandatory Reporting (LMR) Wholesale Pork reports. This was the culmination of a process that started when Congress passed the Mandatory Price Reporting Act of 2010, which added wholesale pork cuts to the...

Trade

US Forest Service Honors Outstanding Achievements in Conservation

April 11, 2013 Karin Theophile, International Programs, U.S. Forest Service

An educational program about bats, an effort to increase Dusky Canada goose breeding and an annual bird migration celebration are among the winners of the 2013 Wings Across the Americas Conservation Awards. The U.S. Forest Service awards were presented recently during the North American Wildlife and...

Forestry