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Two-Year Anniversary of Customer Experience Executive Order: USDA Celebrates Customer Experience Efforts

December 29, 2023 Simchah Suveyke-Bogin, Chief Customer Experience Officer for the Office of Customer Experience

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has implemented several customer experience (CX) improvements since President Joe Biden signed the Executive Order Transforming Federal Customer Experience and Service Delivery to Rebuild Trust in Government in December 2021. The executive order directed all...

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Informing Conservation Decisions and Policies through 20 Years of USDA's Conservation Effects Assessment Project

December 18, 2023 Laura Crowell, USDA-NRCS Public Affairs Specialist

Each day U.S. farmers and ranchers make thousands of management decisions, ranging from when and what to plant to weighing options for conserving their operation’s natural resources. They depend on an array of experts, research and data to inform these decisions. One of their sources is the Natural...

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Registration Now Open for Fourth Meeting of the 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee

December 12, 2023 HHS Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, USDA Food and Nutrition Service

As part of its ongoing work, the 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee will hold its next public meeting on January 19, 2024, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET. Convened jointly by the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services and Agriculture, the committee will hear updates from each...

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Farewell and Thanks to Jorge, Our Headquarters People’s Gardener

October 26, 2023 FPAC Strategic Communications Specialist Suzanne Pender

If you follow the #PeoplesGarden on social media, you’ve seen informative videos by Jorge Penso, the lead gardener at the national headquarters People’s Garden in Washington, D.C.

Conservation Farming

Happy Compromise Farm: Nourishing Their Community, Body and Soul

October 17, 2023 FPAC Strategic Communications Specialist Suzanne Pender

Happy Compromise Farm + Sanctuary grows nutritious food for their local community distributed through a “free farm stand.” Though surrounded by farms in the rural Southern Tier of New York, the area is a food desert with a 16% poverty rate, a condition that often leads to higher risk for chronic...

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USDA Celebrates First Anniversary of the Historic White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health

September 28, 2023 Stacy Dean, Deputy Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services

One year after the historic White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health held on September 28, 2022, the USDA Food and Nutrition Service continues accelerating progress on the conference’s goals to end hunger, improve healthy eating and physical activity, and reduce diet-related diseases...

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Critical Need to Increase Food Security in Rural Alaska

September 20, 2023 Cindy Long, USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service Administrator September 13, 2023

The Biden-Harris Administration is committed to ensuring families have consistent and equitable access to healthy, safe, and affordable foods—an effort highlighted during the historic White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health, held last year.

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USDA/1890 National Scholars Program Has a Lifetime Impact

September 12, 2023 Melissa Blair, Public Affairs Specialist, USDA Office of Partnerships and Public Engagement

Alcorn State University graduate Christopher Epps learned firsthand how a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) investment in a student’s educational career can have a lifetime impact.

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REMINDER: Registration Opens Tomorrow to Provide Oral Public Comments to the 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee

August 09, 2023 HHS Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, USDA Food and Nutrition Service

The U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services and Agriculture invite the public to provide oral comments to the 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee virtually during its third meeting on September 12-13, 2023. Registration is required and will open tomorrow, August 10, 2023, at 10 a.m. EST...

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Hard Work and Perseverance Pay Off for USDA/1890 National Scholar

August 07, 2023 Melissa Blair, USDA Office of Partnerships and Public Engagement

California native Floyd D. Harris III knows that perseverance and hard work pay off. A recent graduate of Southern University, an 1890 land-grant university in Louisiana, Harris applied several times to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)/ 1890 National Scholars Program.

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