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Increasing Transparency around WIC Infant Formula Contracts

December 20, 2022 Stacy Dean, Deputy Under Secretary, Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services

WIC is a powerful public health program, serving nearly half of all babies born in the country. To help keep program costs manageable, Congress requires WIC state agencies to contract with an infant formula manufacturer to provide discounted formula for purchase with WIC benefits. The state agencies...

Food and Nutrition

A Career Dedicated to Building More Inclusive Food Systems

December 16, 2022 USDA Research, Education, and Economics Communications Team

33.8 million – that’s the number of people in the U.S. who lived in food-insecure households in 2021, according to USDA’s Economic Research Service. Fortunately, USDA and leaders like Tambra Raye Stevenson are working to tackle nutrition insecurity – especially in underserved communities.

Equity Research and Science

Alternative Uses for Fladry

December 15, 2022 Gail Keirn, Wildlife Services Communication Program Specialist, APHIS

Wildlife Services (WS) experts are exploring how fladry, a nonlethal tool used to protect cattle, sheep, and other livestock from wolves, can prevent other wildlife damage.

Animals

USDA Partners with Purdue University to Develop Video Series to Illustrate Shell Egg Processing and Production Sanitation

December 15, 2022 Jennifer Porter, Deputy Administrator, Agricultural Marketing Service’s Livestock and Poultry Program

USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and Purdue University have developed a series of training videos that illustrate proper sanitation assessment techniques to evaluate shell egg processing equipment. While the practices in these videos are required...

Food and Nutrition Health and Safety

Top Box Foods: A Simple and Stress-Free Way to Get Delicious, Nutritious Food in Chicago - Within any Budget

December 07, 2022 Sandra MacMartin, Public Affairs Specialist, Midwest Regional Office with guest author Olivia Rodriguez, Outreach and Communications Manager, Top Box Foods

Top Box Foods is not a grocery store, farmers market, or food bank. Top Box Foods is a community-driven non-profit, founded in Chicago in 2012, that creates access to healthy and affordable food for the communities they serve. Customers place orders online or via phone for nutritious food which is...

Food and Nutrition

Barbeque, Gumbo, Ice Cream and Team USA – America Leads with our Best at the FIFA World Cup

December 01, 2022 Krissy Young, Public Affairs Specialist, USDA Foreign Agricultural Service

There are only a few things in life that can bring together and excite a global community, and food and sports are two of those things!

Trade

Financing Manufactured Homes to Boost Housing Supply in Rural America

June 30, 2022 USDA Rural Development Staff

USDA Rural Development’s Single Family Housing Guaranteed Loan Program has options for lenders to help homebuyers finance homes across rural America. This includes manufactured homes, which can help boost the housing supply in rural America and bring homeownership within reach for millions of people...

Rural

Working Lands for Wildlife Launches Literature Gateway

June 30, 2022 Bridgett Costanzo, USDA NRCS East Region Working Lands for Wildlife Coordinator

USDA just launched a new research and visualization tool that summarizes published scientific research on bird species-vegetation relationships in the Eastern and Boreal Forests of North America. The tool, Literature Gateway: A Systematic Map of Bird-Vegetation Relationships in Eastern and Boreal...

Conservation

Your Top 10 Food Safety Tips for Summer Grilling

June 30, 2022 Jesus Garcia, Public Affairs Specialist, Food Safety Education Staff

As you plan your Fourth of July celebration, remember these 10 food safety tips to keep your barbecue free from foodborne illness:

Health and Safety

Pine Ridge Food Sovereignty Efforts Expand Tribal Nutrition Security

June 28, 2022 Cindy Long, Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service

When applying an equity lens to nutrition programs, it is essential for policymakers to orient themselves toward the perspective of all communities they serve. We must actively take the time to see and listen to truly understand historical inequities that exist, so that we may be better positioned...

Equity Food and Nutrition Nutrition Security