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The Secret to a Successful Thanksgiving? The Right Tools to Prepare Your Turkey Safely

November 21, 2024 Zoya Sattar, Public Affairs Specialist, Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), USDA

For first-time hosts, or even experienced cooks, the Thanksgiving turkey can be a nerve-wracking dish to prepare once a year. The USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has some tips to reduce any anxiety over cooking your turkey this year.

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The Power of Journey Mapping: Enhancing Customer Experience

November 21, 2024 Lula Wallace, Chief of Staff, Office of Customer Experience

At the Office of Customer Experience (OCX), we recognize the importance of providing exceptional experiences for both our internal and external customers.

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USDA Enhances Market Coverage in Retail Outlets

September 16, 2024 Michael Sheats, Director of the AMS Livestock, Poultry, and Grain Market News Division

USDA’s AMS publishes weekly retail reports on grocery store prices nationwide. Recently, reports on red meats, poultry, and eggs moved to the My Market News platform, offering customizable data as part of AMS’s modernization efforts.

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SNAP-Ed Connects Culture, Land, and Food

June 21, 2024 Kat Mueller, Program Specialist, USDA Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), Western Regional Office (WRO)

For many communities, the SNAP-Education program provides much more than basic nutrition guidance. In Kāneʻohe (in Honolulu), Hawaii, the SNAP-Ed funded Luluku Farms’ Aloha ʻĀina Agri-Cultural Restoration project uses the ʻĀina (land) to preserve traditional crops so the community can achieve self...

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Food Safety: Prepare for the Unexpected

June 06, 2024 Dr. José Emilio Esteban, USDA Under Secretary for Food Safety, and Mary Frances Lowe, U.S. Codex Program

World Food Safety Day is June 7 and USDA is committed to doing our part to collaborate with federal and state partners and engage in vital conversations with food safety experts, consumer organizations, industry, and academia to ensure safe food for all.

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Celebrating World Trade Week - and U.S. Agriculture’s Trade Successes

May 22, 2024 Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs Alexis M. Taylor

May is World Trade Month and this is World Trade Week – a perfect opportunity to celebrate U.S. agriculture’s trade successes and highlight the importance of trade to the farm sector and to our nation as whole. After all, about 20 percent of all U.S. agricultural production is exported, providing a...

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Healthier Foods, Healthier Minds

April 25, 2024 Cindy Long, Administrator, USDA Food and Nutrition Service

Setting kids up for success. It’s what every parent, guardian, and educator wants for our nation’s schoolchildren. They understand the power that small changes have to make a big difference in the learning environment. That’s why here at USDA, we recently announced a generational investment in our...

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The World Loves Apple Farmers to the Core

April 10, 2024 Zane Evans, Public Affairs Specialist, USDA Foreign Agricultural Service

For many American farms, the apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree. The Robison and Stennes family orchards combined equal more than 200 years of growing apples in Washington.

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National Women’s History Month: Celebrating FNS’ Unsung Heroines

March 29, 2024 Justice Wright, Senior Technical Advisor, FNS

Food and Nutrition Service employees dedicate their professional lives to ensuring everyone in America has access to delicious, nutritious food and science-based nutrition education. As we conclude Women’s History Month, we celebrate women working to keep our 16 nutrition assistance programs running...

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Celebrating the Second Anniversary of the USDA Food and Nutrition Security Initiative

March 27, 2024 Caree Jackson Cotwright, PhD, RDN, Director of Nutrition Security and Health Equity, USDA Food and Nutrition Service

USDA is proud to celebrate the second anniversary of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack’s vision to advance food and nutrition security.

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