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USDA Celebrates National 4-H Week

October 08, 2024 Lindsey Abentroth, Youth Coordinator, Office of Partnerships and Public Engagement

This week, we celebrate National 4-H Week and the incredible impact the organization offers young people around the country. At the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), we pay special tribute to this observance as the 4-H Youth Development program is headquartered in USDA’s National Institute of...

Equity Initiatives

USDA Process Verified Program – Verification from Farm to Table

October 08, 2024 Taylor Sermersheim, Auditor, Agricultural Marketing Service

As an auditor for USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), I am one of a small group of highly-qualified individuals who audit companies that utilize our programs to back up their marketing claims and add value to their products by verifying their standards or requirements. One of these programs...

Farming

E. Kika De La Garza Fellow Helps Students Step Out of Their Comfort Zone

October 08, 2024 MD Sharman, Public Affairs Specialist, USDA Office of Partnerships and Public Engagement

Nearly twenty years ago, all that Dr. Circe Niezen, professor at the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico (PUPR), knew about the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) was the USDA approval sticker on her luggage for agricultural safety when she traveled from Puerto Rico to the continental United...

Equity Initiatives

CAPAL Intern Drawn to Federal Employment Opportunities

October 08, 2024 MD Sharman, Public Affairs Specialist, USDA Office of Partnerships and Public Engagement

Ally Huang, a senior at Pomona College in California, just completed an internship through the Conference on Asian Pacific American Leadership (CAPAL) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). As a public policy analysis major focusing on economics, she found that the experience enabled her to...

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USDA Celebrates Students as They Return to School

September 16, 2024 Lindsey Abentroth, Youth Coordinator, Office of Partnerships and Public Engagement

USDA’s Agriculture in the Classroom Program helps improve agricultural literacy, awareness, knowledge, and appreciation for more than 60,000 K-12 teachers and their nearly 5 million students.

Equity Initiatives

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.

Farming Food and Nutrition Technology

CAPAL Intern Driven to Change Food Insecurity

September 05, 2024 MD Sharman, Public Affairs Specialist, USDA Office of Partnerships and Public Engagement

Nichole Espineli, a master's student at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, draws on her experience with food insecurity to work with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Equity Initiatives

Dr. Jennie L. Stephens: Advocating for Heirs’ Property and the Future of Family Land

September 05, 2024 The Equity Team

For nearly 20 years, Dr. Jennie L. Stephens has been a champion in breaking down barriers so that families can build generational wealth and grow working landscapes with their inherited property. South Carolina’s Center for Heirs’ Property Preservation (CHPP™), where Equity Commission Agriculture...

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HEP/CAMP Intern Draws Inspiration from USDA

September 05, 2024 Daniela De Santiago-Zuniga, Intern, Office of Partnerships and Public Engagement

The National HEP/CAMP Association partners with the USDA to provide students from farmworker backgrounds a paid, 10-week internship in Washington, D.C.

Equity Initiatives

1890 National Scholar’s Roots Run Deep in Agriculture

September 05, 2024 MD Sharman, Public Affairs Specialist, USDA Office of Partnerships and Public Engagement

When Kiera Sherrod was young, her grandfather often came to her house in Albany, Georgia to plant crops in her parents’ backyard for her family to maintain and harvest. This ritual also sparked the beginning of his granddaughter’s interest in agriculture.

Equity Initiatives